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A Small Book for the Anxious Heart is a small but powerful devotional to remind men and women of the encouraging, beautiful words in Scripture to anxious people.
While many books on fear and anxiety exist-promising to help men and women manage their struggles with methods and formulas-this devotional reaches deeper into Scripture, making the Word of God more accessible. Dont put a Band-Aid on your fear and anxiety, rather, learn to bring your fear to Jesus, relying on his Word.
Welch has been counseling for over thirty-eight years and is the author of more than a dozen books, including A Small Book about a Big Problem, Running Scared: Fear, Worry and the God of Rest, Shame Interrupted, When People Are Big and God Is Small, and many others.
Jesus cares for us, and in these readings, Welch invites readers to trust him for today, knowing he goes before us always.
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When anxious, we need gallons of biblical wisdom for our muddled thoughts. But we are exhausted and can muster little emotional energy for books deep enough to help. Ed offers page-and-a-half chapters, thimblefuls of truth we can manage that soothe and steady.
Steve Estes , Pastor, Brick Lane Community Church; coauthor of When God Weeps
Anxiety, hassle, worry, stress, and bouts of panic are all rogues that harass us as we roam this broken world. Ed Welch gets the problem and knows we need fresh faith for each days burdens. A Small Book for the Anxious Heart is offered as an essential weapon in the fight for faith, peace, and joy.
Dave Harvey , Pastor; blogger; teacher; author of I Still Do! Growing Closer and Stronger through Lifes Defining Moments
In fifty days of meditations, Dr. Welch pens short, pointed, and crystalline reflections that take hearts captive to fear and frees them to faith in Christ.
Alfred Poirier , Visiting professor at Westminster Theological Seminary; author of The Peacemaking Pastor
With clear, intimate writing, this small book addresses burdens carried by so many of us. On each page, truth and love are blended so that real life is the arena and the real God is the center. If we anxious ones will open its pages, we will again find God drawing wondrously near to us.
Andrew Nicholls, Director of Pastoral Care, Oak Hill College, London; coauthor of Real Change: Becoming More Like Jesus in Everyday Life
If you struggle with worry and fear, digest these bite-size chunks each day for fifty days, and I promise that your love for Christ will grow. Ed Welchs A Small Book for the Anxious Heart is a goldmine of biblical truths for the worried soul.
Deepak Reju, Pastor of Biblical Counseling and Family Ministry, Capitol Hill Baptist Church, Washington, DC; author of On Guard and Shes Got the Wrong Guy
Popular anxiety treatments are generally designed for the isolated individual. Ed refuses to concede isolation as the given, and helps us find God and others nearby when we are afraid. So we get to join him in finding todays manna, living in today rather than tomorrow, and finding refuge from all that is so understandably scary.
Michael Gembola, Executive Director, Blue Ridge Christian Counseling
This is exactly what my anxious heart needed: briefly explained, surgically precise, and accurately applied Scripture to the very site of each metastasis and malignant cause of anxiety, fear, and worry within me. Repentance and renewed faith flourished within me as I savored every line of this welcome tool of grace.
Joseph Vincent Novenson, Pastor, Lookout Mountain Presbyterian Church, TN
New Growth Press, Greensboro, NC 27404
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Copyright 2019 by Edward T. Welch.
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ISBN: 978-1-64507-037-5 (eBook)
ISBN: 978-1-64507-036-8 (Print)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Welch, Edward T., 1953 author.
Title: A small book for the anxious heart : meditations on fear, worry, and trust / Edward T. Welch.
Description: Greensboro, NC : New Growth Press, [2019] |
Identifiers: LCCN 2019017457 (print) | LCCN 2019019969 (ebook) | ISBN 9781645070375 () | ISBN 9781645070368 (trade cloth)
Subjects: LCSH: Peace of mindReligious aspectsChristianityMeditations. | AnxietyReligious aspectsChristianityMeditations. | FearReligious aspectsChristianityMeditations. | WorryReligious aspectsChristianityMeditations.
Classification: LCC BV4908.5 (ebook) | LCC BV4908.5 .W4363 2019 (print) | DDC 242/.4dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019017457
Printed in the United States of America
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Contents
There is no question that the problem of anxiety is a riddle whose solution would be bound to throw a flood of light on our whole mental existence.
Freud
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
A nxieties remain among my top bugaboos. My own grappling with them is different than it was even a year ago, but I see so much more that is available, so much room for growth.
In this book I will raise some themes from books on fear that I have previously written, but I will also introduce new themes and, I hope, add the benefit of additional experience.
Consider going slow with what is ahead. Read one day, then talk about it with someone else. Each day will end with suggestions that you can think, write, talk, and pray about. Consider keeping a journal where you record your responses. That will slow you down too, but in a good way. Usually when we are anxious, we would prefer to sprint to a magical answer. Yet our worries are best engaged at a more deliberate pace.
C ould there be a more important topic? Our lives are full of uncertainties. We never know what the day will bring. Worries, fears, and stress are part of daily life.
We shouldnt be surprised, then, that Scripture says so much about it, and that what it says is both attractive and helpful. The Lord responds to our fears with words of comfort, which he is pleased to repeat again and again.
His words to us cluster around two themes: your God is very near, and he gives the grace and power you need for today. The aim of this book is to help us become more skillful in how we identify our fears and anxieties, hear Gods good words, and grow. You could say that our goal is wisdom. Wisdom is another name for skill in living.
If there is a rap against wisdom, it is that wisdom takes time. Anxieties, of course, prefer relief now. But what wisdom can do is set out a path that leaves you a little different with each step. Over time you notice the changes. A little farther down the road and others notice. As you walk, you will learn much about the paradox of strength in weakness, and you will feel more fully human and alive.
The rhythm of your journey is simple: You speak and God listens; God speaks and you listen.
You put your fears into wordshe will help you if you dont even know where to begin. He takes your fears and anxieties to heart without ever minimizing them. Then he speaks. You treasure what he says (Proverbs 2:1). You think about it, act on it, and talk about it. And the conversation continues. When you feel lost, you speak to the Lord. He listens to you. When you are stuck, you call out for insight (Proverbs 2:3). He answers you.
Through it all is closeness to a person. That makes this path different from all others. God never intended us to bear the overwhelming burdens of life by ourselves. Instead, he gives himselfjust the right person to bear them with us.
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