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I'm Dr. James Dobson, and I'm thrilled that you've joined us.

Well, welcome to another edition of Dr. James Dobson's Family talk. I'm Roger Marsh, sitting in the co-host seat today.

And today we're going to get into a topic of conversation that is a reality for most people.

And yet, very few of us in the church actually know what to do about it.

It's no secret that we live in a stressed out world.

A new poll from the American Psychological Association says that

more than one quarter of U.S. adults are literally to the point, this is one of every four,

where they can't function because the stress has gotten so bad. Now we know that the life of Christ

gives us eternal peace and rest, but ultimately, too, that we have to live in this world,

and we're not promised a quote-unquote care-free life.

So how can we manage and recover from the stresses of what we are facing in everyday life and

become a bit more resilient?

Our guest today here on Family Talk is Pastor Charles Stone.

Dr. Stone is reflecting on his responses to stressful personal life experiences, including a cancer

diagnosis, heart problems, pre-diabetes, and depression. And these events prompted Pastor Stone to

reevaluate his education on stress resilience. And not just as a researcher, but as someone who has

personally grappled with these challenges. And he's written a brand new book. It's out from Moody

publishers. It's simply titled, Stress Less, Nine Habits from the Bible and Brain Science to build resilience and reduce anxiety. We have a link for the book up at Dr. James Dobson.org. Dr. Charles, welcome to Dr. James Dobson's family talk. We have been trying to get this conversation together for months and we're so very grateful that we found a little quiet place here. we can actually do the recording charles it's good to have you on the program today rogers great to be with you you know it's wonderful to have this type of conversation because as you were and i were talking about previously the idea that a lot of people will say okay well i'm a christian so i shouldn't be stressing so much i shouldn't be My problems should all be solved. And a lot of times it causes people to take a step back even from their faith. And yet you do talk about the fact that there is a biblical response to stress, even though the word stress really isn't in scripture per se. That's probably why a lot of us have a hard time dealing with that. Talk about why this is so important for us to kind of get our arms around from a spiritual standpoint. Well, sure. Well, stress is real. I think stress has been accentuated post-COVID across the board. I think stress is increasing as we kind of lose our moral footings. Of course, there are some good data coming out that maybe there is a

little bit of revival stirring. But if a person really wants to experience, I believe, the joy that we

have in Christ, even though we face stressful circumstances, we've got to understand what stress is.

We've got to understand what Scripture says about stress. And I think we can also lean in what really

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