{"id":400,"date":"2009-09-18T11:17:45","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T17:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=400"},"modified":"2009-09-18T11:17:45","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T17:17:45","slug":"resources-on-fear-and-worry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/resources-on-fear-and-worry\/","title":{"rendered":"Resources on Fear and Worry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In last Sunday&#8217;s message &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/messages\/Date\/SEP_13_2009.php\">&#8220;Worldly Worry vs. Kingdom Confidence&#8221;<\/a> (Luke 12:1-34) &#8212; I mentioned a couple of very helpful books on fear and worry by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/search-handle-url\/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?%5Fencoding=UTF8&amp;sort=relevancerank&amp;search-type=ss&amp;index=books&amp;field-author=Edward%20T.%20Welch\">Ed Welch<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0978556755\/desesprichur-20\">Running Scared: Fear, Worry &amp; the God of Rest<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0875526004\/desesprichur-20\">When People Are Big and God Is Small: Overcoming Peer Pressure, Codependency, and the Fear of Man<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em> <!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">On a related theme, the words of John Newton&#8217;s hymn, &#8220;Pensive, Doubting, Fearful Heart,&#8221; are full of comfort:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-style: normal;\"> <!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Pensive, doubting, fearful heart,<br \/>\nHear what Christ the Savior says;<br \/>\nEvery word should joy impart,<br \/>\nChange thy mourning into praise:<br \/>\nYes, he speaks, and speaks to thee,<br \/>\nMay he help thee to believe!<br \/>\nThen thou presently wilt see,<br \/>\nThou hast little cause to grieve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;Fear thou not, nor be ashamed,<br \/>\nAll thy sorrows soon shall end<br \/>\nI who heav&#8217;n and earth have framed,<br \/>\nAm thy husband and thy friend<br \/>\nI the High and Holy One,<br \/>\nIsrael&#8217;s GOD by all adored;<br \/>\nAs thy Savior will be known,<br \/>\nThy Redeemer and thy Lord.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00c2\u00a0For a moment I withdrew,<br \/>\nAnd thy heart was filled with pain;<br \/>\nBut my mercies I&#8217;ll renew,<br \/>\nThou shalt soon rejoice again:<br \/>\nThough I scorn to hide my face,<br \/>\nVery soon my wrath shall cease;<br \/>\n&#8216;Tis but for a moment&#8217;s space,<br \/>\nEnding in eternal peace.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">When my peaceful bow appears<br \/>\nPainted on the wat&#8217;ry cloud;<br \/>\n&#8216;Tis to dissipate thy fears,<br \/>\nLest the earth should be o&#8217;erflowed:<br \/>\n&#8216;Tis an emblem too of grace,<br \/>\nOf my cov&#8217;nant love a sign;<br \/>\nThough the mountains leave their place,<br \/>\nThou shalt be for ever mine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Though afflicted, tempest-tossed,<br \/>\nComfortless awhile thou art,<br \/>\nDo not think thou canst be lost,<br \/>\nThou art graven on my heart<br \/>\nAll thy walls I will repair,<br \/>\nThou shalt be rebuilt anew;<br \/>\nAnd in thee it shall appear,<br \/>\nWhat a God of love can do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--EndFragment--> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmountainchurch.org\/rmm\/index.html\">Red Mountain Church<\/a> has an excellent recording of this hymn, which can be <a href=\"http:\/\/beemp3.com\/download.php?file=639582&amp;song=Pensive%2C+Doubting%2C+Fearful+Heart\">downloaded here<\/a> for free. I&#8217;d highly recommend any or all of the modern hymns on\u00c2\u00a0their\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmountainchurch.org\/rmm\/alb\/albums.html\">six albums<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In last Sunday&#8217;s message &#8212; &#8220;Worldly Worry vs. Kingdom Confidence&#8221; (Luke 12:1-34) &#8212; I mentioned a couple of&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/resources-on-fear-and-worry\/\">Continue Reading &rsaquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,39,41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}