Anxiety

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Mastery and Mystery

Lyndi Lee Markus June 10, 2026
LYNDI LEE MARKUS Train – Develop – Care | Editor-in-Chief for Upfront To relinquish mastery is to relinquish control. Am I the only one challenged by the thought that my…
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Unraveling

Rebekah Cornelius January 5, 2026
Rebekah Cornelius | Train – Develop – Care Tugging on one little thread can unravel the whole sweater—a visual that describes my relationship with grief and loss. Loss has unraveled…
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Eastering Our Marriage

Judy Gomoll January 5, 2026
Judy Gomoll | SHAW and Encore Act one Our Happy Marriage Dies In 2001, death and betrayal arrived to our family, leaving a slew of bleeding wounds behind. After decades…
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When Grief is Louder

Osaze Murray January 5, 2026
Osaze Murray | Train – Develop – Care Sometimes, in the middle of my favorite show, a commercial comes on louder than the show I tuned in on, and I…
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Image of a Suffering God

Cassie Thornburg January 5, 2026
Cassie Thornburg | World Missions I sat in another waiting room, wondering if the doctors would be able to figure out what was going on. During the last three months…
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God Changed My View of Prayer

Peggy Reynoso June 23, 2025
Peggy Reynoso Train – Develop – Care I had a love-hate relationship with prayer. For most of my life, God spoke to me sporadically, usually in times of great need…
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Practical Prayer

David Erickson June 23, 2025
David Erickson World Missions Spending the past twenty-two years in a pioneering Muslim context has grown my prayer life. Reading the Word? Now, that’s easy and enjoyable. But praying? That’s…
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With Me on My Journey

Jo Newell April 29, 2025
By Jo Newell, TDC God walked so faithfully and kindly with me in the year following our only son Nathaniel’s death. He met me often through people, almost daily in…
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Dangit, Jo!

Lyndi Lee Markus April 29, 2025
By Lyndi Lee Markus, TDC - “Dangit, Jo!” I exclaimed to my spiritual director. Except I did not use the word dangit. I had come to our session discouraged to…
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The Light of Christ

Amanda Torres April 29, 2025
By Amanda Torres, Collegiate - As she struck a match to light the candle for our spiritual direction session, I heard my director say the familiar words she opens with…
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Building Below the Waterline

Howard Baker September 23, 2024
When surveying the landscape and mining the data around what is happening to people in positions of mission and ministry leadership, several trends become apparent. Among them are:  While social…
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Riding the Waves of Transition

Serene Chua July 22, 2024
Transitions can be hard, especially those that aren’t expected. But even for the ones we long for, there are still lessons to learn, emotions to sort out and most of…
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An Empty Place

Mark Rood July 22, 2024
With our belongings loaded onto a ship for the journey back to the U.S., I find myself sitting among the dust bunnies on the floor of our vacant Tokyo home,…
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Transitions and Thresholds

Elizabeth Davies July 22, 2024
As soon as you hear the word transition or change, I’m sure a range of images, experiences, life stages, and emotions occur. As they signal the end of one thing…
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When Differences Pull Us Apart

February 6, 2024
 I can’t help but notice that a spirit of argument and polarization seems to have taken over our world. Maybe it feels collectively harder to handle conflict because we’re tired…
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Cheating is Wrong… Isn’t It?

Tammy Murden February 6, 2024
SEEK TO UNDERSTAND BEFORE BEING UNDERSTOOD  The first thing most missionaries learn is the mantra, “Different isn’t wrong, it’s just different.”  In situations where we don’t understand others’ actions, it…
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Am I Practicing an Integrated Faith?

Felton Woodson February 6, 2024
After the George Floyd video hit the internet, racial tensions in the U.S. began to rise—and the Body of Christ was not excluded from this tension. People from all sides…
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Don’t Question the Expert

Jo Newell February 6, 2024
For as far back as I can recall, being right has been important to me. You might say it has formed a significant part of my identity. I can remember…
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Embracing Gray Spaces

Lyndi Lee Markus February 6, 2024
“Did you know you have permission to be wrong?” my friend asked me gently. I was in the middle of a discernment process, and heaven seemed silent while anxiety tightened…
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Position Mixtapes

Lyndi Lee Markus July 24, 2023
How do we know what we know? How do we determine our position, or what we believe, on various issues? We all combine different sources of knowledge in different ways,…
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Gentle and Right

Osaze Murray July 24, 2023
“Why do you want to do this now?” my business partner asked. “it’s not the right time.” I sulked for a moment, then retaliated. “I’ve been doing most of the…
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What I Said and How I Said It

Kenneth Robertson July 24, 2023
“Pastor, I don’t know what to think. A loving God can’t possibly think this about me, can He?” The voice on the recording belonged to a young woman who described…
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The Unexpected Companion

Kirk Lauckner April 28, 2023
 I will never forget my first meeting with the psychiatrist. His office was in a mental health hospital, and it was straight out of a movie… complete with a creaky…
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Anxiety: An Invitation to Slow Down

Francis Juloya April 28, 2023
“Parang malalim yata ang iniisip mo?” (English: “Looks like you’re thinking about something deep.”)  As a child, my anxiety was perceived as deep thinking. When anxiety takes hold of me,…
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A New Song

Kirk Lauckner April 13, 2023
“How’s your health, Caitlin?” This was a simple question from a caring Navigator staff woman, as we caught up during a wedding weekend in 2009. Suddenly, the room spun and…
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Worry Proven to be Highly Effective

Brad Hillman April 12, 2023
A scientific study has revealed the significant effectiveness of worry and anxiety. It turns out that over 95 percent of the thing we worry about never occur! 🙂 In spite…
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Anxiety

Janet Lewis April 12, 2023
Worry. It’s in our nature. We worry about our bills, our kids, our kids’ friends. We worry about our kids’ lack of friends. If we don’t worry, our friends say,…
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Giving God Control

Kathy Redmond February 9, 2023
The State of My Soul By Kathy Redmond I attended TDC’s Soul Care for Leaders Workshop day at Glen Eyrie during the 2023 Leader Summit. To my surprise… the prompts…
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Flipping the Map

Sheri Underwood January 13, 2023
“If you flip the map over, you’ll get a bigger picture of where we are,” I suggested to my teammate. His response? “I actually like to only look at the…
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Teamwork

Craig Parker January 13, 2023
My idea of teaming was significantly impacted when I read the first four words of I and II Thessalonians: Paul, Silas and Timothy. Three individuals with decades of shared experience…
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Teamwork According to Ants

Aimee Hodges January 13, 2023
Go to the ant, you sluggard;  consider its ways and be wise!  It has no commander,  no overseer or ruler,  yet it stores its provisions in summer  and gathers its…
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