Episode 010 - Marinating on Anxiety
This episode on anxiety was recorded a couple of months ago and was not set to release until next month. In light of the global pandemic we are all facing, we felt it would be a helpful resource for anyone who may be dealing with anxiety during this time. Although Dr. Derwin does not mention COVID-19 or coronavirus specifically, the principles and truths he discusses still apply.
As another resource, we are offering Chapter 5 of his forthcoming book for free. In this chapter, he addresses how the early Church responded to pandemics and plagues. Instead of responding with fear, they responded with truth and love. You can download this free chapter at thegoodlifebook.net.
Notes:
Anxiety is going up because of the pressure to succeed, but true success is becoming more like Christ. This leads to being an emotionally healthy person and agents of redemptive love. Success is becoming a person of love.
Anxiety is going up because the world is scary and violent. We are exposed to this through the 24/7 news cycle.
Anxiety is going up because of the unending search to be happy.
What can be done?
See a brain health professional.
In the Beatitudes, Jesus is teaching us a new way to be human and what it actually means to be happy.
Lysa TerKeurst’s endorsement: “This book has the most solid teaching on happiness I’ve ever read. Not only is this message helpful but it’s also refreshingly honest and carefully researched. This is wisdom I’ve personally seen Pastor Derwin live out both through these pages and in every day life.”
Max Lucado’s endorsement: “From the great sermon in history comes the greatest words on happiness. Jesus’ famous beatitudes have blessed millions upon millions of people who have searched for true and lasting joy. My friend Derwin Gray masterfully unpacks the words of Christ with the skill of a scholar and the heart of a pastor. The result is a book that will bless a generation that is hungry for the happiness of heaven.”
“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.” - C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity.
Our healing from anxiety is actually about being transformed, becoming the people we were meant to become.
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