Biblical wisdom for anxiety on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors,

where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people face.

Today on the podcast, I have with me, Pastor Tim Pazma.

He's ministered at LaRue Baptist Church in LaRue, Ohio since the spring of 1985.

He's married to Rebecca, and God has blessed them with three sons and three daughters,

three daughters-in-law, and a son-in-law, also 14 quite active grandchildren.

Pastor Tim earned a BA from Cedarville University and the MDiv from Grace Theological Seminary.

He serves as an ACBC fellow and is on our board of trustees.

He lectures frequently on counseling issues at counseling conferences and for a number of Christian

organizations. Tim, I can't wait to get into this topic. I'm so glad that you're here to help us think biblically through this issue of anxiety. Welcome, brother. Well, thank you. I'm really glad to be here, especially with this topic. This is one that's very close to my heart. Honestly, it did, you know, before we jumped on and started recording, it did lighten the

mood a little bit when we were talking about wrestling and, you know, some of the things that

you've been enjoying here recently, following a high school team around where your son is the

coach and there's a lot of fun stuff.

So I appreciated you sharing a little bit about that and your joys to follow around the guys as they wrestle.

It's quite fun.

Well, let's talk about this issue of anxiety because I think there is some confusion on this

particular topic as we think about worry and anxiety.

And frequently, Tim, we have questions that come in as we ask, you know, what are topics

that you guys want to hear about on the podcast?

And this consistently remains at the top of the request that we get.

So we need to do some work here in talking about anxiety.

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