I’m trying out a little podcast. I don’t know about you, but I don’t have time to listen to hour long podcasts very often. Sometimes, I just want one thought to mull over for awhile.
So, I’ve created a two minute podcast and my first episodes will be about toxic theology that may interfere with living well with hard and confusing things in our lives. Episode 1 is about anxiety.
I’d love to hear from you as to whether this format works for you. Feel free to give advice or identify episodes you would like to hear.
https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-ufsrp-15bdd0c
Musings on Faith and Psychology 
I look forward to listening!
Hi Dr. Phil,
I enjoyed your podcast. It was informative, background music was relaxing and peaceful and your input had me to think about trusting God from a relational perspective and not theological, I appreciate you taking the time to present this.
Thank you,
one of your Biblical students
Beverly Moon
You gave a lot to think about in just two minutes. Thanks! I look forward to many more.
Phil- the content and the way it was delivered was excellent. The content is not new to me but I *so* appreciate hearing it from yet another source.
I myself would appreciate a longer, say 5-15 min, version- to have a longer time to sit with the impact of you as a person in addition to the content. I also would have appreciated hearing you read the whole psalm, or a reading of selected passages. But that’s just me – I’m in a place where hearing Scripture read aloud by a brother I trust is deeply healing. Understatement.
if your audience is largely survivors, please…..give us more. We’re desperately hanging on to truth, hanging on to Jesus, and we so need others to walk with us on the journey- there aren’t many who will.
Thank you and God bless you.
Julie, thank you for taking the time to respond. Helpful to hear from your perspective. I may try some deeper dives to see what that might be like.
I’m in agreement with Julie. Having a two minute podcast feels like someone saying ‘oh I have this great topic to discuss, but oh wait, we are just out of time’…
Thank you for starting this, Phil! I so appreciate your thoughts. I would love to see a slightly longer than two minutes podcast, maybe 5-10 or even 15? And, for the anxiety topic, the idea that anxiety is mentioned in the Bible and parkinsons’ is not… makes it trickier to allow myself to group it together with cancer or parkinsons and instead get down on myself when i fail! (And thank you for inviting input!)
Yes, great point, Mary. Except for me, it’s more *others’* comments around anxiety because of the challenge you point out that can be problematic.
Here’s where I’ve landed in case it’s helpful:
All the psalmists’ words of fear (which are Jesus’ words, as the Word), plus Jesus’ incarnated words at Gethsemane - aren’t they words given to us to *express* our fear to God? He knew we would very well need them.
Then, combine all those words with the Lord’s continual, compassionate invitations and entreaties not to fear, to look up, to him. (Are they exhortations in the sense of reprimands and scoldings? I don’t think so, given the previous biblical record?)
A good parent understands a child’s fears and is quick to hug and comfort him. That may not be *all* a parent does, but it’s definitely the first thing (at least, it is for me).
And a child is expected to grow up, to mature ….. but it’s a long journey, with fits and starts ……and we’ll be on that continual journey until the end.
Just sharing my heart in case it helps yours. I don’t know why I have such fits and starts, sigh ….. That’s rhetorical – I know why, but I wish my blindness and insistence on “seeing” with my own eyes didn’t continually trip me up. :)