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MENTAL HEALTH & SUFFERING

In the Meantime (Part 2)

How can we keep on hoping when we’ve suffered let down after let down and when disappointment routinely makes it so hard? How can we keep on

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In the Meantime (Part 1)

While we are waiting for God to show up and act on our behalf, what do we do in the meantime to avoid the things that threaten our hope?

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Forging or Breaking Links

The Church desperately needs to become an environment of openness and compassion when it comes to Mental Health.

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Is Self Worth a Biblical Concept? (Part 2)

By His inexplicable grace, God raised me up and recreated me in the image of His Son.

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Dragging On

Have you ever asked this kind of question; “Where is this going and does God see me?"

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Is Self Worth a Biblical Concept?

The reality of the situation is that God has not created me for ascetic purposes; to hate myself and mourn my existence.

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Chronic Love (Loving those with Mental Health Issues)

When Jesus said to love others as I’ve loved you He meant love others with an unrelenting, unending, unconditional love.

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Christian, Mental Health Matters - Part 3 “No Respecter of Persons”

In my case, my mental health battles are a result of the sin of my past, and that’s on me, my decisions, I made them, and I have to own them

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Christian, Mental Health Matters - Part 2 The Problem with Mental Health Statistics

A broken world, with broken people, produces the sad statistics we see.

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The Indignity of Ageing

You may not be old, but you are aging and there is nothing you can do to stop it.

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Bringing Meaning

The suffering that drastically altered my life God has been using to radically alter me into looking more like Jesus.

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Christian, Mental Health Matters

Christians struggle with mental health issues; from laity to leadership, it is clear that mental health is no respecter of persons.

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Was Jesus Handicapped?

When the Word became flesh the Word willingly handicapped Himself; He handicapped Himself by becoming flesh, human.

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What if God Doesn't Fix it?

In the back of every sufferer’s mind is the foreboding fear of the possibility that God won’t fix our suffering.

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