Why Worry?

by Aug 14, 2016Sermon, The Life You Can Have

Numerous medical studies make it clear: we’re in the midst of an anxiety epidemic. In other words, a lot of people worry—a lot. And it’s having a dramatic detrimental impact on our health and on our society. Yet it’s been suggested, “we can do nothing better with worry than without it.” So, why worry? Jesus had a lot to say about worry and offers a prescription for how we can learn to live without it.

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