Stress Tip: Stay Positive
When stress narrows your focus to the negative, a growing list of good things in your life can change your perspective.
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What Causes Your Stress?
Why identifying the specific internal and external sources of your stress is the first skill in managing it well.
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Stress Is a Normal Part of Life
Why experiencing stress is not a spiritual failure, and how a healthy amount of pressure can help us grow.
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Jesus, Our Model for Handling Stress
Jesus knew intense stress, yet He endured. Consider what His example can teach you about handling pressure today.
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Are You Ever Overwhelmed by Stress?
Missionaries often live with stress levels far above what most people face. Gaylyn shares honestly about seasons of overwhelming stress and what helps.
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How Do We Stress Ourselves?
A vivid look at internal stress and why two people can experience the same event so differently.
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Don’t Fear or Be Afraid
George Stahnke on God’s repeated command not to fear: fear of change, of lack, and of coming to Jesus, and how His peace replaces fear.
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Are You Using Your Resources to Manage Stress?
A 15-question self-assessment to see how well you are applying the spiritual resources God provides when you are under stress.
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Maximize Your Resources to Manage Stress
How knowing God the Father, His identity, character, and work, becomes a practical resource for managing stress.
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You Have a Choice about How Stress Affects You
Bombs and gunfire in Guatemala City taught Gaylyn that, even in danger, she could choose whether to focus on the problems or on God.
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Prevent Burnout: Are You at Risk?
How to recognize the causes and warning signs of burnout before chronic stress leaves you depleted.
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What Is Your Response to Stress?
Feeling distress under stress is not a lack of spirituality. Jesus, Paul, and David all felt it. Examples of how distress can show up in everyday life.
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Definition of Stress
The difference between stress and stressors, and why a biblical view sees stress affecting the whole person.
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Take a Day of Rest
Rest is not laziness. Why God modeled a day of rest, and how setting aside one day a week can bless your life and work.
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Stress Tip: Bring Balance to Your Lifestyle
Some stress comes from lives out of balance. Practical options for stopping, delegating, and letting go of perfectionism.
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Use Humor to Reduce Your Stress
Laughter is good medicine. Simple ways to use humor to reduce stress, and how it helped one family through a painful season.
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Simple Ways to Rest and Recharge
Three simple stress tips: take a power nap, give your mind a rest, and make time every day for something you really enjoy.
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What Are Some Effects of Stress?
Sleeplessness, irritability, fatigue, headaches. Research shows how often stress affects our bodies, and why it’s worth working through.
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Kept in Perfect Peace
Isaiah 26:3 promises perfect peace, Shalom Shalom, to those who trust God. Questions to help you find His peace in the middle of stress.
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Help Children Talk About Their Stress
Simple ways to draw children out, through questions, self-disclosure, and gentle guesses, so they can put stress into words instead of acting it out.
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How Jesus Handled Stress
Jesus is our best example of managing stress. He was honest about His feelings, trusted the Father, prayed, leaned on friends, rested, and looked ahead with joy.
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Children Get Stressed Out Too!
Children feel stress too. Learn the two key signs, change and regression, and how kids who hold stress in differ from those who act it out.
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Do You Ever Need to Rant and Rave?
David poured out his distress to God in Psalm 31. It’s okay to tell the Lord exactly how you feel. He is always there to listen.
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Fix Your Eyes on Jesus
When stress and hardship make you want to give up, Hebrews 12:2-3 invites you to fix your eyes on Jesus, who endured and finished His race.
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What Are You Worried About?
The “teddy bear verse” reminds us to cast every worry on the Lord. What cares are you still carrying that He wants you to give Him?
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Are You Weary?
Jesus invites the weary and burdened to come to Him for rest. Is He calling you to stop, slow down, and spend time with Him?
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