#127 - A Biblical Approach to Mental Illness, Part 1 (Pastor Steve Ham, Dr. Berger, and Dr. Shaw)

What this episode covers

Part 1 of the series of pre-conference conversations for the 2021 Grace Fellowship Church Counseling and Discipleship Training. These conversations lay the groundwork for the Advanced Track of the conference. Dr. Shaw discusses "A Biblical Approach to Mental Illness" with Dr. Daniel Berger and Pastor Steve Ham. Dr. Mark E. Shaw, Director of Counseling, Grace Fellowship Church, Florence, KY; Founder of The Addiction Connection. Dr. Daniel Berger, Pastor of Faith Fellowship Church, Clarence, NY; Founder and Director of Alethia International Ministries (AIM); and serves as Director of Faith Biblical Counseling Center. Steve Ham is pastor of Hyde Park Baptist Church, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 3:05 Why is biblical creation vital to believe and why should biblical counselors be skilled in communicating it to counselees? 6:32 How does the devil attack and try to undermine anthropology, ontology, epistemology all in Genesis 3? 10:25 Psalm 73 and what biblical counselors must stand upon 12:29 A preview of the importance of worldview and phenomenology in layman's terms (Dr. Berger) 15:55 Sufficiency of Scripture in counseling (Pastor Ham) 23:15 What does science say? (Pastor Ham) 23:45 Biological causes and behavioral choices - how can we tell the difference? (Dr. Berger) 27:10 Defining terms - science, evidence, reality, repeatable, observable and provable (Pastor Ham) 30:40 Moving counselees from a different worldview and belief system toward a biblical worldview (Pastor Ham) 33:40 The hopelessness of the message sent to hurting people that they are only a product of your own chemicals

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