#129 - A Biblical Approach to Mental Illness, Part 3 (Pastor Steve Ham, Dr. Berger, and Dr. Shaw)

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Grace Fellowship Church Counseling and Discipleship Training 2021 pre-conference conversations. Find more here: www.graceky.org/CDT "A Biblical Approach to Mental Illness" – This series lays the groundwork for the advanced track of the conference. 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. Pastor Steve Ham is the Pastor of Hyde Park Baptist Church in Cincinnati, Ohio. This conversation focuses on laying the groundwork for the topic of the advanced track of the Counseling and Discipleship Training at Grace Fellowship Church in Florence, KY. This bonus material is available in video format when you register for the CDT conference. You can find out more at graceky.org/CDT and register to attend in person (or even register for the online option.) "But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong." (2 Corinthians 12:9-10) ESV [1] 2:50 Has the idea of biblical human weakness been neglected somewhat in biblical counseling? (Berger) 4:19 Do "good people" become insane with the first use of a substance? And how did the second step attempt to further this construct? (Shaw) 6:13 What is the proper biblical lens for asking the question "what is normal?" (Berger) 7:20 What is the meaning of the word 'weakness' in the Greek New Testament? (Berger) 8:00 Ecclesiastes 9:3 "This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that the same event happens to all. Also, the hearts of the children of man are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead." (ESV) [1] 8:19 A description of everything that is in a Genesis 3 world, and the fragility of humanity. (Ham) 10:00 "We underestimate the absolute devastation that it is morally, spiritually, in our lives under the sun without Christ." (Ham) 10:28 Ecclesiastes 9:4 "But he who is joined with all the living has hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion." (ESV) [1] 11:30 What is our normal and what is our restored ultimate reality? (Berger) 12:10 "None of us like to stop throughout the day and say, I'm headed to death... Humanism teaches us to think we are strong. They are teaching little girls to have that mentality, "I'm a strong woman, I'm a strong girl." And then when life exposes that's not true they start thinking they're disordered." (Berger) 14:10 What are the Biblical counseling applications for the reality of fragility? (Shaw+ Berger) 16:45 Restore me to sanity or ...? (Is this insanity or is it depravity...) (Berger and Shaw) 17:10 The mind of Christ and taking thoughts captive as it applies to this truth for all sin and for all those who struggle with addiction 18:30 The spiritual reality of the only strength we can have... (Ham) 20:31 In repentance and rest there is strength... (Berger) [1] Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. May not copy or download more than 500 consecutive verses of the ESV Bible or more than one-half of any book of the ESV Bible.

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