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  Worship in an Age of Anxiety: How Churches Can Create Space for Healing J. Michael Jordan IVP Academic ISBN: 978-1-5140-0610-8; June 2024; $32.00   The rise of anxiety, depression, and several other mental health issues are being noted by plenty of authorities across the social spectrum. As a Christian minister who has engaged with several people exhibiting different forms of these, and as an author who has taken a stab at various ways anger and anxiety are being manipulated in our time, I also am concerned. Therefore, I was very interested in “Worship in an Age of Anxiety: How Churches Can Create Space for healing,” which is a 248-page paperback in the IVP Academic series Dynamics of Christian Worship . J. Michael Jordan is Dean of the Chapel and Associate Professor of Religion at Houghton University in Houghton, NY. He is also an ordained Wesleyan pastor. The book is both diagnostic as well as filled with helpful proposals for congregations to think through on ho...

  Praise the LORD! Praise, O servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD! We lift our hearts to you, O mighty God, merciful God, majestic God, because you have cared for us in spiritual and bodily and psychological needs; and so, with our hearts and hands and voices we resound with your praises! Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth and forevermore! From the rising of the sun to its setting, the name of the LORD is to be praised! Lord God, our Father, we pray for your one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church, to include Henderson Hills Baptist, Higher Plain Baptist, Hillcrest United Presbyterian, and Holy Cross Lutheran Church. We pray for all your Church’s elders, pastors, and servers, that they would all be faithful to the Word of God and guide your Church to prove herself to be the light of Christ to the nations. And for this congregation we pray; for all of our parents and the children in our homes, our students and young adults seeking to launch out on the...