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  1. 2d ago

    Stop Trying to Stop Worrying_Scrolling and Binging

    Show notes You prayed, you felt peace, and then you woke up and the worry was back. In the final episode of our series on worry, we talk about why that isn't a failure of faith, and why peace is something we practice rather than something we feel once. Drawing on Philippians 4 and Lamentations 3, we look at how Paul learned contentment in prison, why “I can do all things” is really about staying steady, and how the poet of Lamentations chose to call God's compassion to mind in the middle of the rubble. Along the way we name the ways we usually cope instead (binge-watching, doomscrolling, betting, and buying comfort) and ask a better question: where will I take my discomfort? In this episode •Why the worry comes back, and why that's human, not faithless •The shift from the peace of God (Phil. 4:7) to the God of peace (Phil. 4:9) •Contentment as something learned, one morning at a time •What “I can do all things through Christ” means in context •How we check out: streaming, scrolling, sports betting, and retail therapy •Lamentations 3: remembering God's love on purpose, and letting hope follow •A simple daily practice to carry with you Scriptures •Philippians 4:6–9 •Philippians 4:11–13 •Lamentations 3:21–26 Try this week •Give God the first minute of your day before you check your phone. •Choose one “true thing” about God and write it where you'll see it. •When worry returns: notice it, name it, and turn back to your true thing. •Pause before you reach for the remote, the app, or the cart, and pray one honest sentence. •Swap one evening of scrolling for something that restores you. •Tell a friend which true thing you're carrying, and ask them to check in. Reflection questions •Where do you usually go when you want to “check out”? •What would it look like to bring that discomfort to God first? •Which “one true thing” about God do you most need to remember this week? sources •CivicScience: Stress is driving Americans to disconnect (https://civicscience.com/widespread-stress-is-driving-americans-to-disconnect-as-interest-in-talk-therapy-collides-with-cost-and-discomfort/) •CivicScience: From binge-watching to therapy (https://civicscience.com/from-binge-watching-to-therapy-how-americans-are-navigating-mental-health-today/) •Pew survey on smartphone use, via The Financial (https://finchannel.com/?p=134970) •Johns Hopkins sports betting study, via Boston 25 News (https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/study-links-sports-betting-expansion-increases-anxiety-depression-treatment/QYYZDS3G2VFIDEMZHFEDCLOS3E/) If anxiety is overwhelming your daily life, please reach out to a pastor, a counselor, or a trusted friend. Asking for help is one of the ways God cares for us.

  2. Oct 25

    Stop Trying to Stop Worrying_Asleep in the Boat

    Episode 4: Stop Trying to Stop Worrying: Asleep in the Boat Episode Summary What do you do with the worry that comes after you’ve already prayed? In this episode we step into the boat with the disciples in Mark 4:35–41. A furious squall hits the Sea of Galilee, seasoned fishermen are bailing for their lives, and Jesus is asleep on a cushion in the stern. Their cry, “Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?”, is the question underneath many of our own prayers, and underneath the headlines as well. Jesus doesn’t scold them for waking him. He gets up, speaks to the wind and waves, and the lake goes still. Then the story takes a strange turn: the disciples are more afraid after the calm than during the storm. Worry asks, “Does God care?” The deeper question is “Who is this in the boat with me?” In This Episode •Why prayer sometimes feels like it hits the ceiling, and why you’re in good company if it does •Our private storms and the public ones: reading Mark 4 alongside the news •The sleeping Jesus: what the cushion reveals about his humanity, his exhaustion, and his trust in the Father •“At their wits’ end”: when all your skill and every tool you have stop working •The real fear isn’t that God is weak but that God is indifferent •Jesus stills the storm, the first of his nature miracles in Mark, showing his authority over creation itself •“Do you still have no faith?” heard not as a rebuke but as “Did you really think I’d let you drown?” •From relief to awe: “Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey him!” •Hurricanes and headlines are not two different problems for God Scripture Referenced •Mark 4:35–41, Jesus calms the storm •Psalm 107:25–27, “they were at their wits’ end” •Psalm 89:9, “when its waves mount up, you still them” •Psalm 65:6–7, the God who stills the roaring seas and the turmoil of the nations •Proverbs 30:4, “Whose hands have gathered up the wind?” •Psalm 46:10, “Be still, and know that I am God” This Week’s Practice Go back to that moment when your prayer felt like it hit the ceiling. 1Wake him up. Don’t pretend you’re fine. Tell Jesus honestly: I’m scared. I’m not sure you care. He can take it, and the Psalms are full of prayers like that. 2Ask the better question. Picture your storm, and picture Jesus in the same boat with you. Then ask him: Who are you, in this? 3Carry someone else’s storm. Choose one storm from the headlines, such as a family in Bend, a town on the Gulf Coast, or a neighbor worried about rent, and bring it to him too. Key Quote “His sleep wasn’t neglect. It was trust. He knew who held the storm. Do you?”

  3. Oct 18

    Stop Trying to Stop Worrying_Not Yours To Carry

    Stop Trying to Stop Worrying: Not Yours to Carry ``` Episode : 3 Some of the heaviest worry isn't about us at all. It's about them. This week we look at what it means to cast our cares on God, especially our worry for the people we love. Part of the series Stop Trying to Stop Worrying. The friend who stopped returning your texts. The marriage coming apart that isn't yours. Your mom, whose memory slips a little more each visit. You love these people, so you carry them with you. Everywhere. And if someone told you to stop worrying about them, it would almost feel like a betrayal. Isn't worrying what love does? In this episode, we sit with two passages written by people who knew that weight. In Psalm 55, David is in anguish over the betrayal of a close friend, and right in the middle of it he writes a line that sounds almost too simple: cast your cares on the Lord, and he will sustain you. Centuries later, Peter writes to scattered, persecuted churches and tells them to humble themselves under God's mighty hand and throw all their anxiety on him. IN THIS EPISODE • Why the Hebrew word for "care" covers far more than anxiety, including the very people and situations God has placed in your hands • What it means that God doesn't just watch over the people we love, but steps under the weight of their lives • Why Peter's word for "cast" really means to throw, and what it looks like to stop keeping one hand on the thing you've handed over • Why Peter puts humility before casting, and how worry can quietly put us in God's role • Three ways carrying someone else's whole life becomes dangerous: to them, to us, and to our faith • How letting go isn't checking out, and why you're more present for people when you're not drowning in fear for them SCRIPTURE Psalm 55:22 1 Peter 5:6–7 FOR TODAY Think of one person you've been carrying this week. Just one. Say their name, then pray something like this: "God, I love them. You love them more. I can't hold their whole life, but you can. I'm putting them in your hands. Show me the one thing you want me to do for them today, and help me let the rest go." And if you pick them back up an hour from now, that's okay. Set them down again. Casting isn't something you do once. It's something you learn to do over and over. CONNECT WITH ALL SAINTS All Saints is a community for all who believe, doubt, and seek. Find groups, the app, and more at https://believedoubtseek.org If this episode helped, share it with someone you know who's carrying a lot for somebody else. ```

  4. Oct 11

    Stop Trying to Stop Worrying_Today Has Enough

    Stop Trying to Stop Worrying Episode 2: Today Has Enough Matthew 6:25–34 Most of our worry isn't about right now. Right now, we're usually okay. Worry is a kind of time travel: it carries us into a future we haven't reached, shows us the worst version of it, and drops us back in the present, worn out from a trip we never needed to take. In this episode, we sit with Jesus' words from the Sermon on the Mount, spoken to ordinary people who didn't know where next week's bread would come from. Jesus doesn't scold them for being anxious. He points: look at the birds, consider the lilies. Worry tells us everything depends on us. Jesus invites us to look up and notice that the world we're standing in is already being held. In this episode •Why worry feels productive, and why it isn't. Worry doesn't add an hour to our lives or solve tomorrow's problem. It spends today's strength on a future we can't yet live. •What the birds and lilies teach us. Creation isn't a throwaway illustration. Jesus points to it because it matters to God, and God's care for it reveals something about God's care for us. •Prayer as the alternative to worry. Paul doesn't just tell us to stop being anxious; he gives us something to do with what worries us. •Today's trouble, today's grace. Like manna in the wilderness, grace can't be stockpiled. It comes fresh each day. •What "seek first the kingdom" really means. The kingdom is God's intention for the world becoming reality: the hungry fed, enemies reconciled, the stranger welcomed, the overlooked given a place at the table. It's God's work, and we're invited to join it. Scripture •Matthew 6:25–34 •Philippians 4:6 •Exodus 16 (manna in the wilderness) Mentioned •N. T. Wright on Christian hope as God renewing creation rather than abandoning it A line to carry with you "We don't need tomorrow's grace today. We need today's grace today." A practice for today When you notice yourself worrying, stop and ask: Is this today's trouble or tomorrow's? •If it's today's, do what you can, then let it go. •If it's tomorrow's, say, "That belongs to tomorrow." Take a breath, look around, and notice something God is caring for without your help. Today has enough, and today God has enough for you. For reflection 1.Where does your worry tend to travel: next week, next month, or years ahead? 2.What would it look like to treat prayer, not rehearsal, as the "productive" response to what worries you? 3.Where do you see God bringing life or restoring what's broken right now, and how might you join in?

  5. Oct 4

    Stop Trying to Stop Worrying

    Stop Trying to Stop Worrying Psalm 46:1–5, 10 & Philippians 4:6–7 Maybe nothing in your life is on fire. It's just a lot: the emails, the test results you're waiting on, the kid who won't talk to you, the bills, the news. Any one of them you could handle. All of them together keep you up at 2 a.m. This episode looks at two passages written by people who knew that feeling. One is a temple song from Jerusalem. The other is a letter Paul wrote from prison. Neither pretends everything is fine. Both say the same thing: you don't have to carry the weight of all of it. In this episode: Faith that admits the mountains shake. Psalm 46 doesn't promise that hard things won't happen. It speaks from inside the upheaval, and that gives us permission to name what's shaking instead of spiritualizing it away. The river under the city. Jerusalem had no great river. The psalm's "river that makes glad the city of God" points to a hidden current, God as "a very present help": present in the middle of it, not arriving after it. Why "just stop worrying" never works. Paul doesn't simply forbid anxiety. He redirects it in four movements: in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, and let your requests be made known. Thanksgiving as memory. Anxiety lives in an imagined future. Thanksgiving plants our feet in a remembered past where God was faithful. Peace that keeps watch. Paul's word for "guard" pictures a sentry at the city gate. The worries will still knock, but you aren't the one who has to stay awake guarding the door. Every "you" is plural. God's peace often comes through a friend who prays when we can't, or through a community that holds what we can't. "Be still" means let go. The Hebrew carries the sense of loosening your grip, like a fist slowly unclenching. Rest isn't passivity: you still make the call and show up to the appointment, but you do it from rest instead of dread. A practice for this week: Name it. Say or write the one thing weighing heaviest on you today. Pray it specifically. "God, here's what I'm afraid will happen…" Remember one faithfulness. Name one time God carried you before, and say thank you. Open your hands. "I'm letting go of this. You are God. I am not." Breathe the promise. Inhale: "God is my refuge." Exhale: "Your peace keeps watch over my heart." Repeat it each time the worry returns. It will return, and that's fine. The watch is kept. Scripture referenced: Psalm 46:1–5, 10 (ESV); Philippians 4:6–7 (ESV and The Passion Translation) "Worries will still come knocking at 2 a.m. But you won't be the one who has to stay awake guarding the door. Someone else is on watch."

  6. Sep 20

    More Than A Belief System

    Episode Show Notes: More Than a Belief System-Why We Need the Holy Spirit for Everything We don't just need the Holy Spirit for church — we need him for our politics, our relationships, and every hard conversation in between. Whether you believe all of this, doubt most of it, or you're just seeking and not sure yet, this episode is for you. What we cover - Why the most qualified people in history (the original disciples) still weren't ready without the Holy Spirit - Who the Spirit is: "another Helper" of the same kind as Jesus (John 14:16) - The simple test for discerning what's really from the Spirit: is this something Jesus did, or would do? - The two ditches the church keeps driving into: sensationalizing the Spirit vs. institutionalizing the Spirit A picture for how the Spirit actually operates. Not like a standing army with headquarters and a chain of command, but like wind moving through the cracks in our systems - What that means for how we handle politics, social issues, and our closest relationships - An invitation to all whp believe, doubt, and seek Scripture referenced •Acts 1:8 — "But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth." •John 14:16 — "I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever." •John 16:7 — Jesus tells the disciples it's better for them that he goes away, because he will send the Helper Quote from the episode "The Spirit doesn't ask our institutions for permission, and he definitely doesn't wait for our politics to sort itself out before he moves." Questions for reflection or group discussion 1Have you ever seen something done "in the name of the Holy Spirit" that left you confused or wary? What happened? 2Which do you lean toward more naturally — sensationalizing the Spirit, or institutionalizing him? 3Where in your life right now (a relationship, a decision, a conversation you're avoiding) do you need the Holy Spirit to move "through the cracks" rather than through your own plan? 4If you're doubting or still seeking what would it look like to bring that honestly to God this week rather than waiting until you're sure?

  7. Sep 13

    Knit Together in Love

    Knit Together in Love — Colossians 1:24–2:5 What does it actually take to keep turning a whole life toward Jesus especially in a season marked by division and drifting doubt? In this message, we sit with Paul's words to the Colossians and ask what it means to be "knit together in love," to let Christ be the center not once, but daily. We talk honestly about suffering, about the doubts our kids and friends bring us, about a culture pulling people apart politically and away from faith quietly and about the deep, often invisible ways God is still growing something real underground, even when it doesn't look connected on the surface. Come with your questions. That's where the secret ingredient tends to show up. In this episode: •Why doubt can be a catalyst instead of a threat •Suffering as the "cross-shaped" pattern of a Christ-follower's life •Staying in relationship across political and ideological divides •What teaching-as-dialogue looks like house to house •This week's challenge: listening for what others see in you

  8. Sep 6

    Be Still and Know

    Show Notes: Be Still and Know That I Am God Psalm 46:10 and the practice of trust in an anxious, always-on world Episode Summary In a culture built on constant notifications, instant answers, and nonstop motion, six ancient words still cut through the noise: "Be still, and know that I am God." In this episode, we slow down with Psalm 46:10, a verse written in the middle of chaos, not calm, and ask what it actually means to trust God's character, release the "if onlys" that keep us stuck in regret, find peace without full clarity, and rest in a love we don't have to earn. This isn't a call to do more. It's an invitation to let go. What We Cover •Why Psalm 46 was written in the middle of national upheaval, not peace, and why that matters for reading it today •Trusting the character of God when we don't have the outcome we want (1 John 5:15) •Releasing the "if only" thoughts that keep us stuck in regret and self-blame •Letting God fight the battles we can't control (Exodus 14:14) •Finding peace even when we can't see the full picture (Isaiah 55:9) •Resting in God's presence and love rather than earning it •A simple, practical practice for building stillness into daily life Scripture Referenced •Psalm 46:10 — "Be still, and know that I am God." •1 John 5:15 — "And since we know He hears us, when we make requests, we also know that He will give us what we ask for." •Exodus 14:14 — "The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still." •Isaiah 55:9 — "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways." •Psalm 37:7 — "Be still in the presence of the Lord." Reflection Questions 1.Where in my life right now am I "white-knuckling" instead of trusting? 2.What "if only" thought have I been replaying, and what would it take to set it down? 3.Where do I feel like I can't see what God is doing — and what do I still know to be true about His character? 4.When did I last sit in stillness long enough to actually receive God's love, not just affirm it? 5.What would change in my daily life if I believed, moment to moment, that God's presence surrounds me? This Week's Practice Set a timer for five minutes. No phone, no agenda. Sit, breathe, and quietly repeat: "Be still, and know that I am God." Let the sentence shorten each time, be still and know… be still… know until it becomes less something you're saying and more a posture you're resting in. Quotable Moments •"Every time we choose stillness over striving, we're making a quiet declaration: God is God, and I am not and that is good news." •"Peace isn't the reward for having it all figured out. It's available before the clarity comes." •"Surrender isn't just uncomfortable anymore; it can feel almost irresponsible." Connect / Continue the Conversation web: believedoubtseek.org Instagram: @believedoubtseek X: @allsaintstweets TicToc: @believedoubtseek Subscribe & Share If this episode encouraged you, share it with someone who needs a reminder to be still today and subscribe so you don't miss what's next.

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