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La Dolce Vita, Carmel by the Sea While Lyndsey and I were in Carmel by the Sea, we ate at this amazing Restaurant called Le Dolce Vita . The salad was one of the best salads we ever ate, the thin-crust pizza was also very good, but our favorite was actually the dipping sauce they brought out for the bread. It was their own special recipe, and we had never tasted anything so great before. In fact, we liked it so much that we bought a jar of it to take with us. Because I can have many bright-ideas at times, I decided to store this amazingly great-tasting sauce in the center console of our SUV. It was while we were traveling up to Portland, Oregon a couple of days later that we discovered the jar had cracked, and the sauce was all over the inside of our center console. Pastor James MacDonald, Jeremy Camp, Selah, Mercy Me, and many more Christian Artists were covered with this once great tasting sauce, but now messy and somewhat smelly nuisance. Well, of course, it was not actually Pa...

If you struggle with anxiety or worry, you are no different that 140 million americans who combat this deadly and overwhelming paralyzer each day. However, God's promise to us is that He will keep in "PERFECT PEACE", those whose minds are steadfast on Him (Isaiah 26:3). The Bible tells us that Jesus is our "PEACE" (Ephesians 2:14), and in Him we are "COMPLETE" (Colossians 2:10). If you are not experiencing the peace of God through your relationship with Jesus Christ, whose peace is a product of all who are His according to Galatians 5:22, then I pray that this message on overcoming anxiety will not only minister to you, but that it will inspire you, and permanently transform you. That is what our God does, He transforms hearts and minds and makes us whole (Romans 12:1-2). Before you listen to the voice of the enemy telling you, "Don't listen to this, you've already tried to go to God for help, it doesn't work! He doesn't ...