tags archives: worry

  Not enough money?
 

7 Shocking Ideas from the Bible… About Money

This is probably going to be controversial. Any time “the Bible” and “money” show up together, all kinds of feathers get ruffled.
But you know what? I’m tired of God’s people not having enough money. And I’m willing to stir up a hornet’s nest if necessary and even shake you up a little bit if I can [...]

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Taste and See that the Lord is Good

In this episode of the Nourish The Dream Podcast, I’m posting audio from a message I shared recently in the pulpit of my good friend, Jesse DiMartino of the Freedom Center in Sarasota.
If you’ll forgive some local information and a brief personal story, you’ll hear the real heart behind the recent post, Cultivating a Heart [...]

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  A Listening Heart

A Listening Heart

 

Cultivating a Heart that Listens to God

It seems like the bad economic news just keeps coming. Last week’s jobs report reflects the worst numbers in the entire lifetime of Generation X. Hopefully the recession hasn’t impacted your business or family personally, but even as I write this line, I know that the likelihood is that it has — or at least [...]

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Are you in crisis?

 

Where Do We Turn?

Recently, we began talking about A Believer’s Response to Bad Economic News. There’s so much more to talk about along these lines, but today let’s focus on the question we asked:
Does what we believe have the ability to produce what we need?
The starting point for this is that we do believe that God Himself has [...]

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A Believer’s Response to Bad Economic News

It always happens in an election year — some kind of upheaval. But this year it really seems to have teeth. Banks failing, huge drops (and gains) in the stock market, businesses closing, layoffs, etc.
As believers, how do we respond?
I’ve spent a lot of time studying this subject this year. With ups and downs in [...]

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Calming the Inner Storm, Part 2

Roll your works upon the Lord [commit and trust them wholly to Him; He will cause your thoughts to become agreeable to His will, and] so shall your plans be established and succeed.
(Proverbs 16:3 AMP)
Last time, we talked about anxiety, stress, and a foreboding that can sometimes overtake our hearts and leave us flustered. As [...]

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Calming the Inner Storm

“These are the times that try men’s souls.” — Thomas Paine, The Crisis
Anxiety. Worry. Concern. Fear.
All too often, these are the “norm” in times of crisis. Perhaps even worse, they are the norm in times of perceived crisis.
Regardless of whether you’re facing a very real and authentic crisis right now, we live in an environment [...]

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