Handling Anxiety God's Way (Part 1 of 2)

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🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Curtis Chang dealt with anxiety for a long time before the pressure became too much and he experienced a mental breakdown that led him to change his mentality. He learned that anxiety is not just a problem to solve. Although it can be difficult and painful, it can also lead to powerful spiritual growth. (Part 1 of 2)

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0:00.0	It's not like we have to get rid of anxiety and then we can be at home with the Father and the
0:08.0	Son and the Spirit.
0:09.0	Actually, the Father and the Son and the Spirit come to make a home with us in our anxiety.
0:15.0	Well that's Curtis Chang and he joins us today on Focus on the Family with Jim
0:19.2	Daily. I'm John Fuller.
0:20.6	John when it comes to mental health issues, anxiety is right at the top of the list and
0:26.7	I think post-pandemic, there are a lot of people that are struggling.
0:30.2	There are people struggling before, but a lot more people are struggling now with this issue of anxiety,
0:35.6	both in the church and outside the church. And it's something that I feel it would be very good of us to cover and to better understand what is happening
0:45.3	with anxiety and sometimes we could say some things in the Christian community
0:49.7	that are so unhelpful to people that are dealing with anxiety.
0:53.3	And I want today and tomorrow's program
0:55.6	to kind of highlight for us what it is,
0:59.0	what we can do to use it to become better and closer to the Lord which is everybody's goal right and we have a
1:05.9	great guest who's going to help us with this.
1:07.8	Yeah and as I said Curtis Chang is joining us he's a writer, speaker and theologian
1:12.2	and has a terrific book. It's called The Anxiety Opportunity.
1:16.5	How Worry is the doorway to your best self. And you can learn more about our guest and
1:22.2	his book at our website.
1:24.0	The details are in the show notes.
1:26.0	Curtis, welcome to focus on the family.
1:28.0	It's great to be here.
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