Think About It

Are you struggling with anxiety caused by invasive thoughts?  There may be some of you who are scratching your heads right now trying to figure out what I am asking; however, I imagine there are several people nodding their heads.  Invasive thoughts are those ideas that tend to invade our consciousness that we never can really shake.  They may not be true (or even possible), but they keep spinning around in our minds causing us to lose our contentment.  As a life-long sufferer of this, there are a couple of things I have realized: 1.  These thoughts tend to stay embedded in our minds because we never really think them through to a logical conclusion.  We never get around to coming up with answers or processes to deal with our fears, so they just keep spinning around inside us. 2.  These thoughts tend to be troubling because we constantly imagine the worst possible outcome.  When we struggle with what might happen, we don’t invest in hope or positivity – all we can imagine is failur

We are two months away from the 2024 Elections and I have a favor to ask of you.  Can we please tone down the political rhetoric?  I am not asking you to quash your opinions or even silence your voice, all I am asking is that we enter this year’s races with self-control and a sense of respect for others.  The founding fathers of this nation saw the value in presenting opposing points of view; however, we must not allow that freedom to alienate groups and individuals from each other.  I often hear how close we are to being at war with other countries.  I am bombarded by observations about how difficult satan’s world is on Christians.  However, I am more concerned about something much more destructive in our nation and in our churches – internal fighting!  I am afraid the thing that will disempower our nation or overwhelm our churches isn’t some outside force, I believe that is more likely to come from alienation and fear fed by internal factions.  When we are more interested in our blin