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In Brooklyn, you can deal with the stress of adult problems with a mere $999. For that amount, Preschool Mastermind will sign you up for a five-week course where along with other adults you can “play dress up, sing Wheels On the Bus, and make Play Doh sculptures. You will spend your day with other professionals,…

A Michigan woman who intended to pay off an overdue $20 balance on her department store credit card now says she intends to sue the company instead. Lisa Ratliff said she was planning to pay the bill, but when she started getting multiple reminder calls every day, she got so annoyed that she decided…

Nine out of ten younger millennials, aged 18 to 24, check their phones at least once an hour, if not “constantly.” The Bank of America mobile trend report says the same group is more likely than any other age group to sleep with their phones next to them in bed. The report found an interesting contradiction…

Eleanor Roosevelt is quoted as saying; “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.” --Jim L. Wilson and Rodger Russell The Week, September 20, 2013 p. 17 Romans 12:3 (NIV) For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself…

A study conducted by researchers in Germany has found that stress may be contagious. The results suggest that stress can be transmitted to people simply by watching other people confront anxiety-provoking situations through television programs or motion pictures. Researchers paired people either as an…

Actor Christopher Walken is a nervous wreck. He refuses to fly. When he travels he wants to be driven in a Limousine. He doesn’t like to go outside in London because he is afraid he will look the wrong way in traffic while crossing a street. He tells his wife, “Stay in the hotel. Don’t go out there.…

In Crazy Love, Francis Chan writes, “Worry implies that we don’t quite trust that God is big enough, powerful enough, or loving enough to take care of what’s happening in our lives.”—Jim L. Wilson and Stephen Argilla Crazy Love: Overwhelmed By a Relentless God P. 42. Worry can disable or paralyze us…

J. D. Drew, major league outfielder for the Boston Red Sox is a professing Christian. He finds living out his Christian faith in the public eye to be a challenge at times. He mentioned “the unique opportunities as a professional athlete to get in trouble, especially when you’re on the road.” He says…

Learning to listen can lower our blood pressure and stress hormone levels and make us less at risk for a heart attack. A Duke University study “found that people who interrupt are up to 7 times fore likely to get heart disease!” --Bottom Line Health, Spring 2010, p. 4 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson and…

A new survey says the place considered to be the one of the safest places on earth is not viewed as friendly by most Americans. The study commissioned by Group Publishing found the only 18 percent of Americans thought the church was the friendliest place in town. The result ranked the local church behind…

In the book, Soul Custody, author Steven Smith makes the case that believers need to choose to move toward a less busy and more disciplined life. Smith writes, ”Every single person who feels more dead than alive, more tired than energized, more burned-out than motivated, more unfulfilled than thriving…

What do you worry about? What is it that makes you anxious? Journalist Eric Sevareid, quoted in the Associated Press says “The biggest business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television It is the manufacture, refinement, and distribution of anxiety.” --The Week, May 21, 2010 p. 21. Illustration…

ANXIETY According to an Associated Press-mtv-U poll “Eighty-five percent of the students reported feeling stress in their daily lives in recent months, with worries about grades, schoolwork, money and relationships the big culprits.” And “Forty-two percent said they had felt down, depressed or hopeless…

Stress The alarm clock screams at you at an ungodly hour. Your kids can't find their socks, won't look for them and expect you to know where they are. The milk and your husband have something in common . . . they are both spoiled. He's upset because he wants to hear "snap, crackle and pop" while he reads…

STRESS Stress kills. It creates problems ranging from headaches to heart attacks. According to the World Health Organization, it is a “World Wide Epidemic,” and the United Nations named it “The 20th Century Disease” in 1992. --http://arfster.multiply.com/journal/item/466 . Illustration by Jim L. Wilson…

BUSYNESS In his book, Satisfy your Soul, Bruce Demarest writes, “The Bible affirms the virtues of “faith, hope, and love” (I Corinthians 13:13), and to that many Christians add a fourth virtue: busyness for God. Many find that the crush of daily life prevents them from really relating even to their spouse…

In his book, Satisfy your Soul, Bruce Demarest writes, “Every one of us must make a strategic decision to break the cycle of perpetual busyness and learn how to quiet our souls before the Lord. We need to move from being externally driven performance machines to internally motivated intimates of God.”…

Worry I didn't sleep well all night. Our alarm clock broke a few weeks ago and we haven't gotten around to replacing it. "No big deal," I told Susan, "I'll just set the television to come on at 6:30 and it will wake us up." She agreed, and I congratulated myself on saving $5.99 for a new clock. The only…