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Anxious: Choosing Faith in a World of Worry
Advanced Writers and Speakers Association's Golden Scroll Merit Award 12th Annual Outreach Resource of the Year Recommendation Our culture is frantic with worry. We stress over circumstances we can't control, we talk about what's keeping us up at night and we wring our hands over the fate of disadvantaged people all over the world, almost as if to show we care and that we have big things to care about. Worry is part of our culture, an expectation of responsible people. And sadly, Christians are no different. But we are called to live and think differently from the worried world around us. The fact is, worry is sin, but we don't seem to take it seriously. It is a spiritual problem, which ultimately cannot be overcome with sheer willpower―its solution is rooted entirely in who God is. How can we live life abundantly, with joy, as God has called us to do, when we're consumed by anxiety? We are commanded not to worry, not only in the well-known words of Jesus recorded in Matthew 6, but also throughout the Old Testament and the epistles to the church. The Bible makes it clear that the future belongs only to God, who rules and is not subject to the limitations of time. To live with joy and contentment, trusting God with the present and the future, is a countercultural feat that can be accomplished only through him. Challenging the idolatrous underpinnings of worry, former Christianity Today executive Amy Simpson encourages us to root our faith in who God is, not in our own will power. We don't often give much thought to why worry offends God, but indulging anxiety binds us to mere possibilities and blinds us to the truth. Correctly understanding the theology of worry is critical to true transformation. This is a book not just for people who worry; this is a call to the church to turn its eyes from the things of earth and fix its eyes on the author and completer of our faith.
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First published September 2, 2014
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Amy Simpson
39 books22 followersAmy Simpson is a passionate leader, communicator, and coach who loves to encourage people to discern and fulfill their calling in this life.
She works as an author, a personal and professional coach, a speaker, a freelance writer, and an editor. She has been writing for 20 years, authoring numerous resources for Christian ministry, including her newest book, "Anxious: Choosing Faith in a World of Worry," and the award-winning "Troubled Minds: Mental Illness and the Church’s Mission."
As a coach, Simpson is trained and certified (CPCC) through The Coaches Training Institute, the industry’s most rigorous and highly respected training program. She also holds an English degree from Trinity International University and an MBA from the University of Colorado and has more than 20 years of experience as a creative professional, corporate leader, and executive.
A former publishing executive, Amy Simpson serves as senior editor of Leadership Journal. Her background includes a unique career path through both the editorial and business sides of publishing, including for-profit and nonprofit organizational leadership.
She has published articles in Leadership Journal, Christianity Today, Today’s Christian Woman, Relevant, PRISM Magazine, Her.meneutics, ThinkChristian, Christian Singles, Group Magazine, and several others. She has worked for Tyndale House Publishers, Group Publishing, Standard, Gospel Light, Lifeway, Focus on the Family, Christianity Today, and others.
She is married with two children and lives in the suburbs of Chicago.
She works as an author, a personal and professional coach, a speaker, a freelance writer, and an editor. She has been writing for 20 years, authoring numerous resources for Christian ministry, including her newest book, "Anxious: Choosing Faith in a World of Worry," and the award-winning "Troubled Minds: Mental Illness and the Church’s Mission."
As a coach, Simpson is trained and certified (CPCC) through The Coaches Training Institute, the industry’s most rigorous and highly respected training program. She also holds an English degree from Trinity International University and an MBA from the University of Colorado and has more than 20 years of experience as a creative professional, corporate leader, and executive.
A former publishing executive, Amy Simpson serves as senior editor of Leadership Journal. Her background includes a unique career path through both the editorial and business sides of publishing, including for-profit and nonprofit organizational leadership.
She has published articles in Leadership Journal, Christianity Today, Today’s Christian Woman, Relevant, PRISM Magazine, Her.meneutics, ThinkChristian, Christian Singles, Group Magazine, and several others. She has worked for Tyndale House Publishers, Group Publishing, Standard, Gospel Light, Lifeway, Focus on the Family, Christianity Today, and others.
She is married with two children and lives in the suburbs of Chicago.
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December 3, 2014
Amy Simpson, Anxious: Choosing Faith in a World of Worry (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Books, 2014). Paperback / Kindle
Tune in to the evening news, and you are likely to hear stories that cause fear and anxiety to well up within you. America’s struggling economy, the Ebola pandemic, radical Islamic terrorism. Or perhaps you don’t watch the evening news but still find yourself anxious about your spouse, your children, your job, your life.
Then you read Amy Simpson’s new book. It says: “a lifestyle of worry is incompatible with a life of faith.” And you think to yourself, Is this woman for real? Does she not understand the hard things I’m going through?
Yes, and yes. Amy Simpson is for real. She understands. She’s a wife, a mother, a worker. Her mother is schizophrenic. Her brother-in-law survived stage-3 liver cancer. Her husband is a licensed counselor. She wrote a book on mental illness. When she says that worry and faith are incompatible, she’s not saying it from some airy-fairy height untouched by trouble.
Rather, she says that faith and worry are incompatible because that is what Jesus himself says. “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life.” Doing so shows that we have “little faith” (Matt. 6:25, 30). The key question, then, is not whether world events and personal troubles make us anxious or afraid, but whether we turn to God in faith in the midst of such things.
At the outset of Anxious, Simpson makes some common-sense distinctions between fear, anxiety, and worry that are very helpful. “Unlike fear,” she writes, “worry is not an immediate response to real or perceived danger; it’s anticipatory, rooted in concern about something that may or may not happen. Unlike normal anxiety, it’s not an involuntary physical response but a pattern we choose to indulge. It rises not from outside us but from within.” Fear and anxiety happen; worry is a choice.
And because we choose it in the first place, we can unchoose it on second thought. Simpson offers two good reasons to do so:
First, worry hurts us and by extension, those we love. The longest chapter in Anxious is chapter 3, “Worry’s Many Destructive Powers.” It outlines the many mental, physical, and relational problems that worry causes. If you want to avoid those problems, avoid worry.
But second, worry is based on bad theology. You might be wondering what theology has to do with good mental health. Simpson’s husband is a cognitive-behavioral therapist. What this means is that he helps his clients understand how their beliefs shape the emotional problems they experience. Long before cognitive-behavioral therapy was a gleam in a psychologist’s eye, Jesus showed the connection between wrong beliefs and negative emotions. “Look at the birds of the air,” Jesus said, just after telling his disciples not to worry; “they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?” (Matt. 6:26). Good theology contributes to good mental health.
Of course, good theology can’t stay in our minds. It must translate into action. Many of us affirm Jesus’ words with our heads, but they don’t trickle down into how our hearts feel or how our hands act. So, in chapters 6, 7, and 8, Simpson addresses “three things that keep us clinging to worry: a faulty perspective, a desire to possess and control the future, and a possessive attachment to the people and things of this world.” For me, these were the most challenging chapters of the book, revealing the subtle ways that my pride, control, and consumerism lie at the base of my worries.
Replacing worry with faith is not an easy thing, and Simpson doesn’t claim that it is. Throughout, she uses the language of process to describe the changes that need to take place, but also the language of repentance. Getting rid of worry is good mental health, but it is also a necessary spiritual practice. Our worry, driven by a desire to possess and control, comes between us and a God who alone is sovereign, and whose mercies alone can heal.
The book ends with a lovely statement about God that is worth sharing:
P.S. If you found my review helpful, please vote “Yes” on my Amazon.com review page.
Tune in to the evening news, and you are likely to hear stories that cause fear and anxiety to well up within you. America’s struggling economy, the Ebola pandemic, radical Islamic terrorism. Or perhaps you don’t watch the evening news but still find yourself anxious about your spouse, your children, your job, your life.
Then you read Amy Simpson’s new book. It says: “a lifestyle of worry is incompatible with a life of faith.” And you think to yourself, Is this woman for real? Does she not understand the hard things I’m going through?
Yes, and yes. Amy Simpson is for real. She understands. She’s a wife, a mother, a worker. Her mother is schizophrenic. Her brother-in-law survived stage-3 liver cancer. Her husband is a licensed counselor. She wrote a book on mental illness. When she says that worry and faith are incompatible, she’s not saying it from some airy-fairy height untouched by trouble.
Rather, she says that faith and worry are incompatible because that is what Jesus himself says. “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life.” Doing so shows that we have “little faith” (Matt. 6:25, 30). The key question, then, is not whether world events and personal troubles make us anxious or afraid, but whether we turn to God in faith in the midst of such things.
At the outset of Anxious, Simpson makes some common-sense distinctions between fear, anxiety, and worry that are very helpful. “Unlike fear,” she writes, “worry is not an immediate response to real or perceived danger; it’s anticipatory, rooted in concern about something that may or may not happen. Unlike normal anxiety, it’s not an involuntary physical response but a pattern we choose to indulge. It rises not from outside us but from within.” Fear and anxiety happen; worry is a choice.
And because we choose it in the first place, we can unchoose it on second thought. Simpson offers two good reasons to do so:
First, worry hurts us and by extension, those we love. The longest chapter in Anxious is chapter 3, “Worry’s Many Destructive Powers.” It outlines the many mental, physical, and relational problems that worry causes. If you want to avoid those problems, avoid worry.
But second, worry is based on bad theology. You might be wondering what theology has to do with good mental health. Simpson’s husband is a cognitive-behavioral therapist. What this means is that he helps his clients understand how their beliefs shape the emotional problems they experience. Long before cognitive-behavioral therapy was a gleam in a psychologist’s eye, Jesus showed the connection between wrong beliefs and negative emotions. “Look at the birds of the air,” Jesus said, just after telling his disciples not to worry; “they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?” (Matt. 6:26). Good theology contributes to good mental health.
Of course, good theology can’t stay in our minds. It must translate into action. Many of us affirm Jesus’ words with our heads, but they don’t trickle down into how our hearts feel or how our hands act. So, in chapters 6, 7, and 8, Simpson addresses “three things that keep us clinging to worry: a faulty perspective, a desire to possess and control the future, and a possessive attachment to the people and things of this world.” For me, these were the most challenging chapters of the book, revealing the subtle ways that my pride, control, and consumerism lie at the base of my worries.
Replacing worry with faith is not an easy thing, and Simpson doesn’t claim that it is. Throughout, she uses the language of process to describe the changes that need to take place, but also the language of repentance. Getting rid of worry is good mental health, but it is also a necessary spiritual practice. Our worry, driven by a desire to possess and control, comes between us and a God who alone is sovereign, and whose mercies alone can heal.
The book ends with a lovely statement about God that is worth sharing:
Why Trust God?
He never fails
He never leaves us
He never disappoints us
He loves us unconditionally
He’s the creator of all things
He transforms us from the inside
He forgives our sins
He knows everything
He rules the future
He is all-powerful
He is everywhere
He is good
He is great
He is
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December 21, 2023
Amy Simpson beautifully articulates what it means to be anxious in a biblical perspective - a book I frequently go back to when I'm in anxiety.
8 Key Takeaways:
1. Anxiety is a sin because God tells us do not worry (Matthew 6: 25)
2. Admit your powerlessness without God
3. Your anxiety is your challenge to display your faith in God
4. We cannot give over our concerns to God because we don't have power to assign work to God
5. Acknowledge what's true, that God knows these concerns already
6. Trusting in God (vs. just trusting God) is like a vulnerable baby resting in a parent's arms
7. Create your own version of Habakkuk 3:17-19
8. Origin Story of the hymn It Is Well with My Soul:
8 Key Takeaways:
1. Anxiety is a sin because God tells us do not worry (Matthew 6: 25)
2. Admit your powerlessness without God
3. Your anxiety is your challenge to display your faith in God
4. We cannot give over our concerns to God because we don't have power to assign work to God
5. Acknowledge what's true, that God knows these concerns already
6. Trusting in God (vs. just trusting God) is like a vulnerable baby resting in a parent's arms
7. Create your own version of Habakkuk 3:17-19
17 Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, 18 yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation. 19 God, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer's; he makes me tread on my high places.
8. Origin Story of the hymn It Is Well with My Soul:
In 1870, Horatio Spafford's 4 year old son died of pneumonia. The next year he was financially ruined when his real estate investments were destroyed by the great fire that decimated Chicago. 2 years later, an economic downturn further devastated his financial circumstances. Soon after, he sent his family on a ship to Europe, staying behind to attend to business matters. The ship collided with another vessel and sank in the Atlantic, and while his wife survived, all 4 of their daughters were killed.
The power in this song is in the declaration that even though life can be horrifically painful, and death and decay are constant companions, our souls are in the keeping of a God who transcends all.
August 26, 2019
Would have given this book three stars, but I felt mislead by the title. This book is not about clinical anxiety, but about worry, defined as an unhelpful type of anxious thinking (though not clinical) that we use to try to stay safe in the world. The main argument is that we often choose worry over peace, and that we can cease worrying when we enlarge our view of God.
I was hoping for a book that I could recommend to people for a Christian take on living with and managing anxiety, and I was disappointed. Most of the people I run into who suffer from “worry” also have some underlying anxiety, and even just plain “worriers” tend to be that way because of past experiences that have taught them that the world is unsafe.
The strength of the book is in examining God’s character and how it gives us the freedom to let go of anxious thoughts. I might recommend it to a person who was not terribly biblically literate, but I wouldn’t give it to anybody with anxiety, as it seems likely to me that an anxiety-sufferer might come away feeling judged.
I was hoping for a book that I could recommend to people for a Christian take on living with and managing anxiety, and I was disappointed. Most of the people I run into who suffer from “worry” also have some underlying anxiety, and even just plain “worriers” tend to be that way because of past experiences that have taught them that the world is unsafe.
The strength of the book is in examining God’s character and how it gives us the freedom to let go of anxious thoughts. I might recommend it to a person who was not terribly biblically literate, but I wouldn’t give it to anybody with anxiety, as it seems likely to me that an anxiety-sufferer might come away feeling judged.
November 19, 2014
It's unfortunate that so much of the early material of this book is taken up detailing the many worries prevalent in our culture. The reader who has selected a book named "Anxious" is likely well aware of such issues. The value of Amy Simpson's writing appears in the final chapters of "Anxious." Chapter Six, "It's All About Perspective," closes with seven practical steps for adjusting focus. "The Future Belongs to God" and "The Fallacy of Possession" expand on the perspective idea, reminding us that it is the illusion of control that creates so much of our stress. Our God rules and provides for all, both now and forever.
January 30, 2015
Already one of my favorite books of 2015. Who doesn't worry? Especially the second half of the book talks about what God says about worry, how it is a trust issue and much of what we worry about is needless. Understanding our relationship with an all-powerful God and stopping trying to control things we have no control over, or go places we can never go can help so much. If you read one book this year, I'd recommend this one.
January 2, 2021
5* An encouraging book on the topic of worry, with teaching based on the Bible and who God is. This is not a book addressing deeper mental health issues, but is for any Christian who wants to live life with stronger faith and less fretting.
February 6, 2015
I liked this book a lot, because I am a worrier. But really two chapters near the captured it all and have been ones I keep referring back to. For other worriers like me I think it is worthwhile.
December 19, 2017
Rich and strong. Great stuff. Thanks to the author.
February 12, 2018
This book was beyond encouraging.
"Everything and everyone we care about belongs to God."
"Everything and everyone we care about belongs to God."
September 14, 2018
Great engagement of the overlap between Christan formation and mental health, particular anxiety related struggles. Helpful for any Christan but essential for any pastor teaching on the topic.
December 17, 2018
The author spends time discussing the different things one can worry about and then moves on to explaining how to trust God with everything.
December 21, 2020
I was looking for something to help me pastorally walk with more and more student through besetting fear and anxiety. This was more helpful than Stafford's book which I am also reading.
I really liked Simpson's distinction between fear, anxiety, and worry. The three concepts are really help to distinguish and I want to start there with people. I also really loved this definition of repentance: “Repentance is an act of contrition and rejection, completely stopping your established momentum and turning around to go in the opposite direction.” I love how Simpson made many connections to real life, especially parenting. Her chapter on possessions increasing our anxiety was very convicting and helpful.
This book wasn't all I hoped it would be though. The use of the NLT throughout was pretty annoying and made for some strange interpretations. It took almost half the book to getting to the Scriptures themselves too. The earlier sections did a good job at showing us the worry in our lives we're often blind to, but it was a bit much.
I really liked Simpson's distinction between fear, anxiety, and worry. The three concepts are really help to distinguish and I want to start there with people. I also really loved this definition of repentance: “Repentance is an act of contrition and rejection, completely stopping your established momentum and turning around to go in the opposite direction.” I love how Simpson made many connections to real life, especially parenting. Her chapter on possessions increasing our anxiety was very convicting and helpful.
This book wasn't all I hoped it would be though. The use of the NLT throughout was pretty annoying and made for some strange interpretations. It took almost half the book to getting to the Scriptures themselves too. The earlier sections did a good job at showing us the worry in our lives we're often blind to, but it was a bit much.
November 7, 2018
Decent book about worry. The author states at the beginning that she is writing this book to those who don’t know they worry. And she spends a lot of time explaining things that we might worry about and the fact that we live in a worry driven culture. The rest of the book has some decent advice about how to set aside worry and focus on our view of God who is in control. She does right by explaining anxiety disorders and the fact that this book is not a substitute for professional help. I like to worry so this book was good for me in that it helped me recognize my brand of worry is a choice and gave me encouragement to set that aside for better things.
December 13, 2018
This was good, but I lean 3 stars just because it took a while to get where I wanted to go.
The second half of the book was really strong. One good action: write down the things that God has asked of me, and consider all the things I worry about that aren't on that list.
The second half of the book was really strong. One good action: write down the things that God has asked of me, and consider all the things I worry about that aren't on that list.
February 21, 2019
One of the very few books that I have read that demonstrates how worry reveals our lack of trust in our Heavenly Father. It is replete with Scripture references to support the claim that we need to choose faith over anxiety.
October 14, 2023
There are some solid principles, but it takes a lot longer to say the same (if true) things over and over again. It could have been half the length, and some of it feels a bit too simplistic and glosses over the real depth and seemingly uncontrollability of severe anxiety.
October 28, 2019
2.5-3 some good reminders, but nothing revolutionary
February 17, 2023
2.5 stars
August 13, 2016
Amy Simpson is educated in the field of modern psychology and counselling research, which would include areas of mental disorders. She is also remains fairly sound in her approach to theology. Her book "Anxious..." does represent a fair problem though, and that is the issue of finding her audience.
She is up-front about who the book is geared for: every day people who don't understand what worry is but are unknowingly being held captive by worry (and the ensuing discussion of the worry/anxiety/fear dichotomy). She is perhaps less up-front about the fact that she is gearing this towards a certain faction of the middle-class (perhaps) suburban Christian, something that becomes fairly clear in very little time. In both respects I found myself a bit isolated here. She is clearly targeting those who have the ability to control their anxiety, and although she goes to great lengths to qualify her statements, to read it as someone with any form of diagnosed anxiety disorder is to have to wrestle with her statements regarding moral and ethical and spiritual responsibility. This is dangerous ground to tread with a title that will likely pull in curious readers struggling with an actual disorder, as anxiety and mental issues sit outside of our ability to control it.
While she is clearly educated in her field of study, her willingness to merge this with her faith perspective will likely isolate those who will find these portions over-shadowing her perspective on the modern psychological/mental research. At the same time, her theological treaties remain fairly surface, even if the actual theology feels grounded. For those looking for a serious look in to how our theology can speak to the issue of mental disorders this is likely not the book, especially since she is not writing primarily about anxiety as a dis-order.
The final dynamic that is somewhat off-putting is her decision to spend far too much time espousing her opinions on the stuff that should make us worried in our modern society. If you are like me, the title anxious likely was a draw because you have an understanding of what it is to struggle with anxiety. As a reader I didn't need her spending gratuitous amounts of time painting this picture for me. I am already anxious about all of these things. What makes the matter worse is that she crosses the line between using the pages to speak her opinion on subjects pertaining to her own life-style choices (such as anti-bacterial soap). This was not the right platform to be using for these discussions.
With all of this aside, I think the strength of Amy's book is in being able to recognize and recommend it to those who we think might fit the narrow margin of it's audience. Once we navigate the above tensions, I think the somewhat misleading title can actually be quite helpful for those who don't have a lot of experience with the discussion of anxiety. As someone who struggles with a rather strong anxiety disorder I found this book to be a potential stepping stone in to to the larger discussion for those who can use some exposure, not just to their own tendency to worry but also to the reality that there is a distinction between the disorder and the tendency to simply give in to worry.
I think sometimes we are far too harsh on words that push us towards personal responsibility, so even as someone with a disorder I tended to give her grace here. It is not helpful for me to divorce myself from any ability to claim or reclaim control, even if I have to be very careful about how I assume that responsibility for myself. To this end I found some of what she had to say helpful, particularly when it came to the discussion of defining the differences between worry, fear and anxiety, including the different spaces that each definition (and discussion) occupies in the larger picture.
This book wasn't written for me, so I need to acknowledge my limited capacity in reviewing it appropriately. But I can at least understand what it was trying to do. I would suggest that if you ever sensed that you have a nagging struggle with worry that you have never yet explored, and if you are interested in exploring this from a Christian perspective informed by modern secular research, this might be a great book for you. It might even help you navigate your nagging struggle in a way that exposes a disorder, which is nothing to be ashamed of either.
She is up-front about who the book is geared for: every day people who don't understand what worry is but are unknowingly being held captive by worry (and the ensuing discussion of the worry/anxiety/fear dichotomy). She is perhaps less up-front about the fact that she is gearing this towards a certain faction of the middle-class (perhaps) suburban Christian, something that becomes fairly clear in very little time. In both respects I found myself a bit isolated here. She is clearly targeting those who have the ability to control their anxiety, and although she goes to great lengths to qualify her statements, to read it as someone with any form of diagnosed anxiety disorder is to have to wrestle with her statements regarding moral and ethical and spiritual responsibility. This is dangerous ground to tread with a title that will likely pull in curious readers struggling with an actual disorder, as anxiety and mental issues sit outside of our ability to control it.
While she is clearly educated in her field of study, her willingness to merge this with her faith perspective will likely isolate those who will find these portions over-shadowing her perspective on the modern psychological/mental research. At the same time, her theological treaties remain fairly surface, even if the actual theology feels grounded. For those looking for a serious look in to how our theology can speak to the issue of mental disorders this is likely not the book, especially since she is not writing primarily about anxiety as a dis-order.
The final dynamic that is somewhat off-putting is her decision to spend far too much time espousing her opinions on the stuff that should make us worried in our modern society. If you are like me, the title anxious likely was a draw because you have an understanding of what it is to struggle with anxiety. As a reader I didn't need her spending gratuitous amounts of time painting this picture for me. I am already anxious about all of these things. What makes the matter worse is that she crosses the line between using the pages to speak her opinion on subjects pertaining to her own life-style choices (such as anti-bacterial soap). This was not the right platform to be using for these discussions.
With all of this aside, I think the strength of Amy's book is in being able to recognize and recommend it to those who we think might fit the narrow margin of it's audience. Once we navigate the above tensions, I think the somewhat misleading title can actually be quite helpful for those who don't have a lot of experience with the discussion of anxiety. As someone who struggles with a rather strong anxiety disorder I found this book to be a potential stepping stone in to to the larger discussion for those who can use some exposure, not just to their own tendency to worry but also to the reality that there is a distinction between the disorder and the tendency to simply give in to worry.
I think sometimes we are far too harsh on words that push us towards personal responsibility, so even as someone with a disorder I tended to give her grace here. It is not helpful for me to divorce myself from any ability to claim or reclaim control, even if I have to be very careful about how I assume that responsibility for myself. To this end I found some of what she had to say helpful, particularly when it came to the discussion of defining the differences between worry, fear and anxiety, including the different spaces that each definition (and discussion) occupies in the larger picture.
This book wasn't written for me, so I need to acknowledge my limited capacity in reviewing it appropriately. But I can at least understand what it was trying to do. I would suggest that if you ever sensed that you have a nagging struggle with worry that you have never yet explored, and if you are interested in exploring this from a Christian perspective informed by modern secular research, this might be a great book for you. It might even help you navigate your nagging struggle in a way that exposes a disorder, which is nothing to be ashamed of either.
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March 31, 2015I appreciate this book for its thoughtful engagement with Scripture, clear discussion of theological perspectives, and practical strategies for addressing worry. Please see a more complete review on my blog for Anxious: Choosing Faith in a World of Worry.
March 12, 2016
An easy read about worrying, and if you think you're exempt because you're "not a worrier," then most likely you will change your mind after reading this book. She does well at separating worry and anxiety from anxiety disorders, and gives a lot of good advice about changing your perspective to help you better deal with worries you might have.
May 9, 2015
The author mostly talks about the sinful tendencies of worry as opposed to other kinds of anxiety. Has a biblical survey on the theme, a cultural analysis and a personal devotional on the theme. I pray this book has long term impact on me.
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