#130 - A Biblical Approach to Mental Illness, Part 4 (Pastor Steve Ham, Dr. Berger, and Dr. Shaw)

Final pre-conference conversation for the Grace Fellowship Church Counseling and Discipleship Training 2021. Find out about this year's conference at graceky.org/CDT September 16-18, 2021. Click here for the video about why we love biblical counseling in the local church from Grace Fellowship Church https://www.graceky.org/cdt/ Human frailty and our present and future hope! A sneak preview of "A Biblical Approach to Mental Illness"  2:22 Dependence on Christ because I am weak and I need a Savior. Jesus went through the frailty of being human but not the depravity. Looking for an answer to their sorrow (Berger) 5:30 Living in the power of Christ right now if we are regenerate- a new creation in Christ - it's not my power (Ham) 7:45 Delusion is the secular word; madness is the biblical word. What is the difference? What is the living scientific evidence that the power of God changes people? (Berger) 10:20 Isaiah 44 and the foolishness of idolatry and the god of self (Shaw) 12:20 Understanding our fragile nature (physically) and the lusts of the flesh and our desperate need for a Savior (Berger) 16:48 Understanding our sure death is coming, billions of dollars being spent trying to deliver man – using science alone – from death, biological reductionism, but they know that death is something they cannot overcome (Shaw, Berger) 19:10 Our sin must be dealt with in order to deal with our weakness- using Christ as a false strength that is not promised by God (Ham) 20:05 Opposing the victimhood error as well (Berger, Shaw) 22:08 Giving God glory as opposed to overcoming addiction in the flesh as secularists are able to do. Giving God "weight" as Jay Younts teaches (Berger)  Find Jay Younts' teaching on YouTube, "Every Day Thoughts" and everydaytalk247.com.  25:14 Emphasizing the brokenness of this world (Shaw)  26:07 What else should we emphasize as Biblical counselors? 27:35 A Biblical look at sorrow, hopelessness, and guilt (Berger) 29:30 God can use these evil horrific circumstances in a redemptive way -- not that it is a good thing, but that the head of Satan is crushed (Shaw and Ham) 31:09 Maturity and understanding suffering (Shaw) 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 "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." (ESV) [1] Dr. Mark E. Shaw, Director of Counseling at Grace Fellowship Church, with Dr. Daniel Berger and Pastor Steve Ham. This series begins laying 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. [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.