In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

Next on In Touch, dealing with anxiety.

This is an age of anxiety.

Everywhere you turn, people are anxious about something.

They're anxious about their job.

Either they've lost it, they're trying to find one can't.

They're anxious about their children where they go to school.

If they'll be able to go to school where they prefer them to attend.

They're anxious about their family, about husbands and wives. be able to go to school where they prefer them to attend.

They're anxious about their family, about husbands and wives, both of them having to work,

or maybe at this point neither one of them have a job.

They're anxious about their future.

They can't save any money.

They're anxious about the things that are happening

in our government, and they can't change them. They're anxious about what's happening in other

countries of the world, and they seem so far away. But somehow when we think about them,

that anxiety boils upon the inside, And that anxiety and worry and fretting

begins to take its toll on people's lives. Everybody has moments of anxiety and worry and fretting

and caring. And the truth is, in the New Testament, the word worry and anxiety of the same word in the original Greek.

So when we say I'm worried about something, you're anxious about it.

You're distraught about it.

That is, your mind is pulled in two different ways.

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