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Welcome to the Gospel Coalition Podcast, equipping the next generation of believers,

pastors, and church leaders to shape life and ministry around the gospel.

On today's episode, we bring you a message from Alistair Groves on the paradox of faithful anxiety.

This message was originally delivered at TGC's 2021 National Conference.

Man, it's great to be here with you guys in person. It's great to be here in the spiritual

and mental and emotional and verbal sense with those of you coming in from a distance.

And I would just love to open our time by praying. Let me go to the Lord on our behalf.

Heavenly Father, you are good to us. You are kind and caring. And you see us in our struggles.

You see us in the midst of our anxieties. And my request for our time this morning,

for the next three quarters of an hour, is that we would know your presence more clearly,

and that we would think more wisely, more deeply, more, more biblically, more

richly, Christianly about what it is to feel anxious, what it is to be afraid,

and how that experience can draw us into your throne room, can pull us up into your lap.

May we be people who go out from this time just a little better equipped to come to you and know

you in the midst of our fears and help others do the same. We offer this request to you,

knowing it is beyond our power to make this happen and asking your spirit to do this in us.

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