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TAKE YOUR ANXIETY TO CHURCH

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  Prov 12:25 What better place to be when your anxious and have a hard time overcoming something in your life that seem to always take your mind to other places.  The church is supposed to be a place where people come together from different walks of life, have different issues, and struggles… seeking wisdom from God.  The church is supposed to be a place where gospel, and life, come together, to find strength to face another week under His amazing grace.  The church is supposed to be a place where someone who is weaker to find stronger fellowship; to help them through seasons of life that may seem hard for them but not for you.  Paul wrote, “We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.” Rom 15:1-2   This involves sharing time and resources, providing guidance, and showing patience.  So, if your anxious, and struggle...
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COMMON SENSE CHRISTIANITY

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  Prov 19:11   The desire for instant gratification is the  enemy of common sense.  Many people have become ensnared in trouble and heartache because they rejected a wise path and sought instead immediate satisfaction.  Charles Bridges said, “What is anger, but temporary madness”  Anger is to act without deliberation under its impulse.  Everyone of us is guilty of this, even if we tell ourselves its justified, even if we declare it, was righteous anger.  It’s not hard to get angry, we live in a world full of disappointment, trouble, injustice, imperfections, evil, and it’s easy to become angry.   In one sense, anger is natural because we’re created in God’s image.   We have a built-in capacity to be angry at everything that belittles the glory of God and questions the ways of our Creator.  It is the anger we see in Jesus when he rebuked those who perverted the worship of God in His Temple.  But we live in a world o...
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