Welcome to Teach Back Tuesday, where we play the most popular episodes from the previous season.

Today's episode, Are You Overdosing on Bad News? Is a really good question. A year ago, this one had

thousands of downloads, and I understood it when I looked at how headlines were written. Have you

noticed it? The headlines are designed to get you to click on the article.

Once you start reading, the article is designed to sell you fear. In three words, we could say what's

going on with most of these articles. Fear for sale. Have you felt more agitated in your soul lately?

Have you felt more disturbed? There's one place you want to start looking hard,

and that's at your mind diet. Let's listen to this episode again. Have you ever watched something

accidentally, and it left you feeling anxious, fearful, or distressed? Making people anxious by feeding them constant bad news often enslaves a viewer

to stay tuned. Isn't that odd? This is the very kind of behavior that can actually hurt us,

but we have a hard time turning it off. I know that I'm not the only podcaster who receives

emails, and often it's asking for us to cover

certain topics. One topic that has come up repeatedly is a plea for help with anxiety and fear.

We are seeing pandemic levels of both. The bigger question is this. Why has there been such a dramatic

increase? We can't blame everything on the pandemic,

even though it did contribute to historic levels of anguish and distress. But sometimes there

are additional causes for constant sense of doom and darkness, inflicted by unlikely suspects.

We are the unlikely suspects.

Thank you for joining Keep the Heart for today's podcast with Francie Taylor.

Francie is an author, conference speaker, and teacher. She is passionate about teaching

what to do with what we learn from God's Word. Now back to

today's valuable study. Are you tired of the continuous stream of bad reports? It sure does make a

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