by Bob | Jul 28, 2025 | Anxiety, Fear
The Big Idea God does not call us to fear the emotion of fear. He does not call us to eradicate fear. God designed fear as our “danger detector” and our “refuge reminder.” God created us with the capacity to fear in order to prompt us to take refuge in Him. “When I...
by Bob | Jul 27, 2025 | Anxiety, Fear
The Big Idea Some Christians have always sought to minimize and spiritualize Jesus’s emotions. However, the Bible testifies to the intensity of Jesus’s full range of human emotions. Here are 10 emotional life principles drawn from Jesus’s emotional life. Jesus’s...
by Bob | Feb 24, 2025 | Anxiety, Natural Revelation
February in Florida Florida in February. We. Love. It. Warm and sunny. In February. Shirley and I, along with another couple, spent Sunday afternoon after church hiking in a park in Port Charlotte. In February. In Florida. Our time outside in nature was so…calming,...
by Bob | Mar 18, 2024 | Anxiety, Fear
An Often Asked Question It’s an often discussed question in the Evangelical Christian world in general, and specifically in the modern biblical counseling world. Are anxiety and fear sin? Here are links to 12 resources that ask and answer that question biblically. A...
by Bob | Nov 22, 2023 | Anxiety, Embodied-Souls
A Word from Bob For a shortened version of this post, with a focus on a biblical theology of embodied-soul practices in biblical counseling, see: Of Spirituality and Ice Cubes: A Psalm and a Palm. “My Name Is Bob…” In my P&R booklet, Anxiety, crafted over a...
by Bob | Apr 23, 2023 | Anxiety
A Word from Bob In my booklet, published by P&R, Anxiety, I walk through Philippians with a gospel-centered approach to the whole person. In the booklet, we talk about the gospel and “the anatomy of anxiety,” including relational (spiritual social, self-aware),...
