This is episode 84 but it got removed! As a teenager, I spent hours obsessing over what I looked like, what I was wearing, whether girls found me attractive, and whether I fit in. I tried to soothe it in nature, then in the gym, then in building this podcast and planning my career, and every time the relief was temporary. The worry always came back. Then I read what Jesus said on the Sermon on the Mount and it broke the loop in a way nothing else had.

In Matthew 6:27, Jesus asks: "Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?" In this episode I walk through Matthew 6:25-34 verse by verse, the parable of the Rich Fool in Luke 12:13-21, Paul writing from a Roman prison cell in Philippians 4:6-7, and Peter's instruction in 1 Peter 5:7 to cast all your anxiety on the Lord because He cares for you. The thread connecti ...