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     I’m working on the next booklet on our church discipleship curriculum (Managing My Emotions). As I’ve prepared to put on paper what I’ve used in counseling over the last decade, I have enjoyed sorting through other resources written on this topic, and hope to incorporate these in the booklet as well as future counseling sessions. There are some helpful Christian resources on anxiety and fear for Christians.       Having said that, I was a bit surprised at the amount of (lack of?) Scriptural basis as a foundation given in the most common resources. Although many sanctification principles are used; practical advice is given; Scriptural ideas and illustrations are incorporated in the layout; I did not come across a comprehensive study. That’s probably my lack of reading other resources. Or perhaps it's because of how we edit out the skeleton in a finished product. But, I wanted to be sure to share some of the skeleton for my study. Below is the anxie...

A Jewish Rabbi in our neighborhood is passing out DVD's of a debate between himself and a Christian teacher (who will remain nameless).   In the video,   Rabbi Mizrachi boasts of asking numerous Christian leaders and pastors why there are two separate accounts of the family tree of Jesus and has never been given an answer.   Two things surprised me about this.   First, he didn't say no one gave him a good answer, he said no one has even given an answer.   I found that hard to believe.   Second, the Christian teacher he was debating did not give him an answer.   That was a bit troubling. Since then, a few other people asked me the same question, and two of them had watched the video.   So, I'd like to offer a brief answer.   If you want to get into more detail (and survey the of related questions in the minutia) you can review the reading material below. Let me state the question simply.   Why are the family trees given by Luk...