Posts Tagged ‘worry’

Running Scared (Part 7): God Speaks – Peace Be With You – 1

Read about what I’m doing here (including the schedule for posts). Part one here.  Part two here.  Part three here and here.  Part four here.  Part five here.  Part six here. We are nearing the end of this “blogging the book” version using Ed Welch’s Running Scared: fear, worry, and the God of rest as [...]

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Running Scared (Part 5): God Speaks on People & Their Judgments

Read about what I’m doing here. Part one here.  Part two here.  Part three here and here.  Part four here. A friend asked me why I choose this book as the summer book of the quarter at Calvary and for “blogging the book” here.  This was my tongue in cheek answer:  Ed Welch saved my [...]

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Running Scared (Part 4): God Speaks on Money & Possessions

Read about what I’m doing here. Part one here.  Part two here.  Part three here and here. It dawned on me as I read these last three chapters (about mid way through) of this section, “God Speaks on money and possessions”, that we had not talked a whole lot about money and possessions.  At least [...]

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Running Scared (Part Three) – continued

…worry is usually about seeking something other than God’s kingdom.  Worry is a sign that we are trying to have it both ways, with one foot in the kingdom of the world and the other in the kingdom of heaven.” Hmm? What would I know about trying to have my way and God’s way?  How [...]

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Running Scared (Part 3): God Speaks on money and possessions

Read about what I’m doing here. Part one here.  Part two here. Today, we look at half of the third section (“God Speaks on money and possessions”) in Edward Welch’s excellent book Running Scared. Here is what I am loving about what I am reading:  Welch is making connections for me that I should have [...]

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Running Scared (Part Two): God Speaks

Click here for a description of what this about and here for the first set of reflections. K (our 4 year old daughter) once famously, at least in our house, uttered words that so appropriately match our own hearts. While we forget the specific context, Lydia exhorted the two year old version of our daughter [...]

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Running Scared: Part One

Today we begin our journey  of blogging through Edward Welch’s book Running Scared.  Click here if you want to see what this is all about or the schedule for reading/posting on this book. When I was a small child (somewhere between the ages of three and six), I used to imagine that there was a [...]

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New “Blogging the Book”: Running Scared

The next Book of the Quarter at Calvary will be: Running Scared:  fear, worry, & the God of rest by Edward Welch “One of the haunting dilemmas of the human condition is that fear is “an inescapable feature of earthly life.”  Every person who has lived on this earth has encountered fear.  Tragically, for this [...]

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