Is worry sinful 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.

This week on the podcast I have with me, Johnny Art of Vanis. He's the lead pastor of Stonebridge

Bible Church in Franklin, Tennessee. He's the founder and president of Dial-in Ministries,

a ministry that provides biblical resourcing for the next generation. Johnny formerly served

as both a camp director at Humel Lake Christian Camps and as dean at the

Masters University. Johnny is passionate that people come to know and love Jesus Christ as they

pursue a deeper understanding of his word. And Johnny lives in Franklin, Tennessee with his wife,

Katie Jean, and their two daughters. Brother, thanks for being with us again. I really appreciate it.

Absolutely, Dale. Thanks for having me on. I'm grateful to be here.

Now I'm going to start out with this question. That was the title of today's podcast.

But we're talking about all of this in the context of a book that you wrote in October of

2024 that I think is just very helpful. It's very practical, but it's very weighty in terms of

considering scripture. The book that you wrote is called Consider the Lilies. And it comes

right out of the frame of scripture. And the context of that is Jesus teaching on this subject

of anxiety, worry, even fear is roped into there as well. The question that I ask in the title,

I just want to present to you just in short term, and I want you to sort of flesh this out,

is worry sinful? So many people ask those questions. They want to know because they feel it,

they experience it. Sometimes they feel like they can't get over it. Is worry sinful?

Yeah, easy question no i uh i think

there's you know obviously the way that i would respond to this question you know i'd want to do it

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