I certainly don't mean to leave the impression that anxiety can be waved away with a simple pep talk. In fact, for some, God's healing will include the help of therapy and/or medication. If that's the case, do not for a moment think that you're a second-class citizen of heaven. Ask God to lead you to a qualified counselor or physician who'll provide the treatment you need. This much is sure: It's not God's will that you lead a life of perpetual anxiety. It's not his will that you face every day with dread and trepidation.

As we meditate on Christ's life, we find strength for our own.

When you're full of yourself, God can't fill you. But when you empty yourself, God has a useful vessel.

I think we live in slavery to fear. Most people don't have an answer to the death question and really don't even have a philosophy. That is a puzzle to me. I think even if I was not a Christian, I would want to at least have a personal solution to the death question. Otherwise, death is just a frightening thing.

Sometimes I wonder if we don't see Christ's love as much in the people he tolerated as in the pain he endured.

Nature is God's workshop. The sky is his resume. The universe is his calling card. You want to know who God is? See what he has done.

One phrase summarizes the horror of hell. "God isn't there."