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Okay guys we are back this week with an episode all about anxiety and I've been pretty

open about the fact that the anxiety chapter of Stop Calling Me Beautiful was the

hardest chapter for me to write, mainly because I knew that there would be some people

who would intentionally misunderstand what I was saying. And so I had to be extremely careful in how I presented the biblical

understanding of how we confront anxiety and how the gospel frees us from anxiety and

overwhelm while also recognizing the physical aspect of this.

And so as I talk about this,

I want you to keep a couple things in mind.

Any physical struggle in this world, physical, mental, disease, issue has to

also be dealt with spiritually. Because we are holistic beings and God sees us that way and

created us that way and Christianity has always at its underpinnings,

Theologically understood the connection of the soul and the body as equal value

we really cannot distill anxiety down to either only physical or only spiritual and I think what we've had happen in Christian culture and in the world in general is

We've swung the pendulum like we so tend to do we talked about this in the legalism episode last week.

We tend as humans to go from one end of the spectrum to the other. And so first it was just

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