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December 30, 2024

Is Anxiety Sin?

1 Corinthians 12:25, 1 Corinthians 7:32-24, Anger, Anxiety, emotions, Fear, OCD, peace, Philippians 4:6, PTSD, Stress, worry

Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are talking about anxiety. What level of anxiousness will qualify you to say you have anxiety? Are there different types? If it is a sin to worry, isn’t it also a sin if you have anxiety? Did Jesus ever have anxiety? What would God want most for a person suffering under anxiety? We invite you to listen today (and each weekday) to the Grace in Focus podcast!

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The Problem of Basing Your Religion on Feelings: Hannah Whitall Smith’s Story, Part 2

August 2, 2021 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Assurance, emotions, Feelings, Hannah Whitall Smith, legalism, Quakerism, works salvation

When Hannah Whitall Smith grew up among the Quakers of Philadelphia in the 1830s, she found that their legalism and emphasis on inward feelings and impressions combined to make a perfect formula for religious doubt: The sort of introspection I had imbided from my Quaker teaching was calculated to lead to constant self-examination of the

The Problem of Basing Your Religion on Feelings: Hannah Whitall Smith’s Story, Part 1

July 30, 2021 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - emotions, Feelings, Hannah Whitall Smith, legalism, Quaker, Quakers, works salvation

Some brands of legalism are focused on obeying external rules. Think of the Pharisees trying to obey all the laws of Moses plus all the additional rules, regulations, and applications of the oral law. But other types of legalism are inwardly focused and highly subjective. An example of that is described in Hannah Whitall Smith’s