advice to young pastors: you gotta try The Paraclete Psalter!

Your job, young pastor, is to maintain a non-anxious presence within the church you pastor.  Knowing that we live in a time when anxiety is everywhere–a time when religion, in particular, has been whipped into a paralyzing frenzy of anxiety by those who are served by fear.  Easier said than done, maintaining a non-anxious presence.  Where to begin?  Befriend the book of Psalms.
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