Replay Wednesday-Calm in the Chaos

Keep the Heart

Francie Taylor

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion & Spirituality

2.4 • 616 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Welcome to Replay Wednesday, where you'll hear some of the most popular episodes from the previous season. This week's episode, Calm in the Chaos, struck a chord with last season's listeners. When life is chaotic for too long, it changes from challenging to tormenting. It's doubly distressing when we don't know why things are so disorderly and confusing. If you missed this episode in 2024, take a break for less than 15 minutes to consider four questions you can ask yourself when life is stuck in the uncomfortable zone of chaos. Pray for God to "give you understanding" as you carefully consider the questions you'll hear. "Let my cry come near before thee, O LORD: give me understanding according to thy word." (Psalm 119:169) VISIT THE SHOP AT KEEP THE HEART Apply: Living What We Learn--Great for small groups! Elegant Olive Petal Snap Flap Bible--Great for travel! The "Be Like Jesus is Better Than You Do You" T-Shirt Rough Patches: Temporary Marital Tensions by Francie Taylor Ponder the Path: A 31-Day Devotional by Francie Taylor Follow Keep the Heart on Instagram Like Keep the Heart on Facebook

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0:00.0	Welcome to Replay Wednesday, where we play the most popular episodes from the previous season.
0:06.3	This episode, Calm and Chaos, was very popular in 2024, and 2024 was a chaotic year.
0:15.3	I'm sure that many of you can remember several things that were going on at that time,
0:20.0	but you know, if we don't have
0:21.6	chaos going on around us, we can still have chaos going on in us, literally inside of us.
0:30.7	And that's very tormenting. So this episode will look at four questions we should ask
0:36.7	when life has too much chaos. Let's listen again.
0:41.5	Life has a lot of chaos, doesn't it? But does it seem to you like people are even more stressed out lately than normally?
0:49.4	The further we move along the timeline of what the Bible calls last days, the more we're seeing
0:55.0	people who are operating in a constant level of distress. But is this normal or is it just common?
1:02.6	Do we have to live as if life is ganging up on us and we have no way to stop it?
1:09.0	How can we learn to stay calm in the chaos?
1:17.6	Welcome to Keep the Heart Podcast with Francie Taylor. Francie is an author, teacher,
1:23.6	and conference speaker known for sharing biblical insights that are practical and inspiring.
1:30.3	Now back to today's valuable study.
1:37.8	You know, it's unreasonable to expect life to be free of trouble.
1:42.1	Job recognized this when he spoke these words in Job 5.7.
1:46.0	Yet, man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward. We're going to have things happen that
1:52.8	weren't in our planners. But if your life is one continuous stream of chaos, that's like a
1:59.1	check engine light on the dash in your car. Something needs to be
2:03.1	examined. Chaos happens, but it's not an operating system. What is chaos, by the way? Well,
2:11.1	an abbreviated definition is confusion and disorder. We know it when we're in it, but sometimes we're not aware that we may be making it
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