Anxiety – indycrowe

Inside Out 2 Movie Guide

We’re big movie fans at our house, and with two kids eight and under, we watch a lot of Disney and Pixar shows. One we all enjoy is Inside Out 2. It’s so good for so many reasons. Below is a sort of movie guide, with come potential discussion questions you could use after watching it, as well as a few of the themes I like most about it (as well as what I think is ultimately missing from it or falls short in it).

Like most Disney and Pixar movies, friendship is a key theme, but it also gets into how that desire to fit or belong can cause problems. Other themes include the human desire for joy, the importance of our beliefs (which shape behavior), both growing up and watching others grow up, and obviously the experience of our emotions.

A Helpful Book on Anxiety

There are many good books on anxiety written by Christians. It’s a broad and complex issue, and no book can say everything, so there are also a lot of angles in which to approach it. One of the books I’ve found most helpful is Struck Down but Not Destroyed: Living Faithfully with Anxiety by Pierce Taylor Hibbs.

10 Ways to Battle Worry

This isn’t a definitive list by any means, but here are ten ways to fight worry.

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Battle Anxiety with Adoration: Gratitude Reading Plan (Day 9)

(This devotion is day nine of a 30-Day Thanksgiving Challenge. Each day includes a daily reading that will be accompanied by a post on this blog.)

Read Philippians 4:4–9; 1 Thessalonians 5:16–18; 1 Peter 5:6–9

We live in an age of anxiety. Alongside the potent fears of our frail hearts and the steady barrage of bad news, the internet and social media have only made things worse. Anxiety, fear, stress, and worry can crush us.

Lessons Learned in the Wilderness: Part 2

Each Wednesday night for the next few weeks, I’ll be teaching a class online about Lessons Learned in the Wilderness. You can view this on Facebook live at the Pennington Park Church account at 8PM.

Tonight we’ll look at God’s Provision and Daily Grace to Battle Worry (Exodus 16). Here are Lesson 2 Notes and here’s a link to the video from week 2. You can also read a related post on 10 Ways to Battle Worry.

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Three Truths About God to Remember when Anxious

Anxiety is overwhelming. It can affect our bodies. It wreaks havoc on our emotions. And it consumes our thoughts. They race like a runaway train or get caught in a vicious cycle of spinning round-and-round with “what if…”, “if only…”, or many other possibilities. Anxiety awakens us in the dark hours of the night. It can rob us of a day’s joy and suck the life right out of us.

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