The Study Room, Christian library, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia

“A little knowledge of God is worth a lot more than a great deal of knowledge about God” (J.I. Packer, emphasis mine).

That title probably got your attention. To be honest, that was the point! But what am I going to be talking about in this blog post with a hook like that? Well…men who have died, yes; but they are men who lived for God consistently: A.W. Pink; G. Campbell Morgan; H. A. Ironside; Dr. John Phillips; Dr. J. Vernon McGee; Warren W. Wiersbe; William MacDonald.

We all deal with anxiety in our lives, whether it is being worried about something specific or feeling anxious without knowing why. How do we deal with those feelings as Christians? How do we continue to live our lives for God’s glory when we feel like we cannot do anything? Are we as Christians supposed to respond to anxiety differently than the rest of the world? In John MacArthur’s book Anxious for Nothing, he uses the Bible to outline how we can avoid those anxieties through prayer, replace those intrusive thoughts with thoughts of God, destroy those spirals of emotions by casting our cares on God, and turn those worries into contentment.