The Safety Zone

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

Anxiety in a person’s heart weighs it down, but a good word makes it glad.  Proverbs 12:25  NASB Anxiety – What is anxiety?  A dictionary definition suggests the following: “a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome.”  Notice that this feeling isn’t about something that has already happened.  You don’t feel anxiety about yesterday’s hurricane.  Nor do you…

The Haunting

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

For I am ready to fall, and my sorrow is continually before me.  For I admit my guilt; I am full of anxiety because of my sin.  Psalm 38:17-18  NASB Anxiety – At last we come to the real problem.  “I’m afraid.”  The Hebrew word is dĕʾāgâ.  “The root dāʾag signifies anxiety, with a shading toward the meaning of fear…