Affirming People Through Mental Health Conversations
By AMIA Communications | | Discipleship, Spiritual Growth | mental health, pastoral care
How can the Church encourage conversations about mental health? It’s a question that All Saints Dallas has been asking for several years, says Guy+ Delcambre, Associate Pastor of Arts and Pastoral Care. This question has had numerous answers, including inviting church members to share testimonies of how God has worked amid mental health struggles. “We…
Messages and The Good Shepherd
By Guest | | Children, Faith Formation | anxiety, fear, mental health, Psalm 23
By Gabriele Zapata, Grace Northridge There are so many messages in the world. Everywhere you go someone wants to make you believe something. I may not have children, but I sit here writing this knowing I will in seven months’ time. And already the messages are bombarding me: what I can and cannot eat, what…
The Church and Psychology: A Lesson from History
By Nathaniel Strenger | | Church Life | mental health
If church and mental health are to cooperate, they will only do so through real-life, flesh-and-blood networks.
The Gift of Listening
By Guest | | Healing, Resources | Christmas, mental health
Your loved ones living with mental health conditions may view the holiday season as a gauntlet of triggers and with overall dread. For many, interactions with particular family members or having to be on point in large group settings can create feelings of anxiety and need for isolation. Here's some ideas on how to help.
Positive Psychology and the Gospel
By Michael+ Lessard | | Spiritual Growth | mental health, Text
Positive Psychology is a shadow gospel, a kind of new religion. It makes happiness the means and the ends. It minimizes our dependence on God and his grace to accomplish any good thing.
Healing Through Relationship
By Rebecca Bakke | | Spiritual Growth | COVID-19, mental health, mental illness, relationships, Text
In helping others to emotionally heal from this pandemic by being in proper relationship with one another, we will also be healing ourselves.
Religious Coping
By Nathaniel Strenger | | Spiritual Growth | mental health, suffering, Video
Religious coping tools are things we derive from our religious beliefs, practices, experiences and relationships
The God of Peace Who Gives the Peace of God
By Ethan+ Harrison | | Scripture, Spirit, Spiritual Growth | anxiety, COVID-19, Galatians 4:4-6, Matthew 6:24-32, mental health, peace, Philippians 2:5-11, Philippians 4:5-7, Romans 5:1, Romans 6:3-11, Romans 8:26-27, Text
To overthrow our idolatry of self and thus heal our anxiety, God’s peace shines forth in the radiance of the mission of the Son, who comes to bring peace through his life, death, resurrection and ascension, and through sending the indwelling Holy Spirit.
Fighting Anxiety With Humility
By Chas+ Williams | | Spiritual Growth | 1 Peter 5:6-7, anxiety, COVID-19, humility, mental health, Text
We are not God. Most of the things that make us anxious are things we cannot fix. Why not let go of them and give them to the one who can?
Hope in Deep Waters: Resources for a Pandemic
By AMIA Communications | | Spiritual Growth | coronavirus, COVID-19, mental health, mental illness, Psalm 96:1-2, resources, Text
Many of us have cried out to God as David did in Psalm 96:1. We’ve found ourselves sinking as we tread the depths of uncertainty and loneliness. As we navigate these unfamiliar waters we, like David, have become intimately acquainted with anxiety, depression, grief and fear, as well as anger and frustration.