Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Today's guests give us insight into a way of

living that God implores each of us to pursue, being anxious for nothing.

Our guest is pastor and author Max Locato.

Max has written two books on this topic,

one for adults called Anxious for Nothing

and another one for children called

I'm not a scaredy cat.

Max tells us about why it was important to him to write on the topic of anxiety

which afflict so many of us in a tense world.

Now here's Max.

Writing about the topic of anxiety is a pretty easy call for somebody who's involved in church work. All of my books come out of sermons.

And as you talk to people... All of my books come out of sermons.

And as you talk to people this day and age,

you realize it's a very, very anxious culture in which we live.

And statistics have borne this out.

The discovery that the United States

is now considered to the land of stress and strife more than stars and stripes is

no surprise but it's just an anxious time in which we live.

And you sense that, I think, in talking with church members,

even in the span of my ministry,

it seems like especially young people are more anxious today

than they were so it's it's just a topic it's just where people are so that's

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