Why Do I Still Struggle With Anxiety as a Christian?

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Anxiety is not a faith failure. A pastor and crisis chaplain explains what's really happening in your brain — and what Scripture actually says about anxious believers

Why Do I Still Struggle With Anxiety as a Christian?

You prayed about it. You memorized Philippians 4:6. You may have even confessed it, wondering if the anxiety itself was the sin. And it's still there — the tight chest before you fall asleep, the mind that won't stop rehearsing tomorrow.

So you ask the quiet question a lot of believers are afraid to say out loud: If I really trusted God, would I still feel this way?

After forty years of pastoring and crisis chaplaincy — sitting with people on the worst days of their lives — I can tell you: this question is one of the most common, and one of the most misunderstood, in the church.

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