Overcoming fear and worry: excerpt
Introduction Hi. I’m Jim. I’m a recovering worrier, who has been worry-free for over forty years now. Well, not in
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Hope
If a friend is thinking about suicide . . .
This page attempts to answer: • Is it normal to want to just die? • Will these feelings go away?
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Why? Why? Why?
A three-year-old’s favorite word is why. “Johnny, hold my hand while we cross the street.” “Why?” “Because I don’t want
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To angry voters . . .
This classic rant sounds straight from Election 2024: I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things
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Sure beats a kidney stone!
Everyone needs to have a kidney stone once in his or her lifetime. Preferably, the sooner the better. You see,
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‘Pressed . . . but not crushed’
From November 2011 In less than one week (six days to be exact) . . . . . . my
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God has a plan for new year
The tabloids are no longer making their outrageous predictions for the New Year. (Perhaps my mocking of their dismal record
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‘There is no peace on earth’
“Peace on earth” seems only a hollow Christmas card cliche today what with civil wars, terrorist attacks and rioting in
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What about euthanasia’s ‘death with dignity’?
Twenty-nine-year-old Brittany Maynard plans to die on Saturday, November 1, 2014. Maynard was diagnosed with grade II Astrocytoma, a severe
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Finding still waters in the storm
For my friends in ministry, are you ready to resign? (Of course you are! It’s Monday.) Here’s some hope and
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Twenty-five rejection-proof markets
With fewer and fewer publishers, producing fewer and fewer books, by fewer and fewer authors, books are extremely hard to
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Coincidences or ‘God-incidences’?
“The first girl you meet when you return to Marion College will become your wife.” No, this wasn’t the prediction
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Who, me walk on water?
Today’s guest poster is my very favorite writer, Lois Farra Watkins. During our trip to Israel, we found ourselves boarding
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Dealing with career highs and lows
Today, I don’t have any articles or books to write. No international—or even the monthly meeting of the Corn Borer
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Top ten things I (Jim) am giving up for Lent
If have in my right hand, direct from my home office, today’s category: Top ten things I (Jim) am giving
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