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Hearing voices
Mental health is an issue often badly misunderstood and handled by society – including the Church. So what exactly is going on for someone who hears voices, and how should we respond?
Becky has heard voices that others can’t hear and seen visual hallucinations since she was five years old, and never realised that there was anything unusual about it. Now she also hears the sound of babies crying and sees unusual things such as eyes looking at her through windows. At times she can become ill and distressed, but other times these experiences of psychosis can be comforting and help her creativity. She believes in God and would like to go to church, and has found this helpful in the past. However, she’s currently not going to church because she feels that she is not welcome.
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Charles Spurgeon Comfort for the Desponding “Oh that I were as in months past.” Job 29:2 FOR the most part the gracious Shepherd leads his people beside the still waters, and makes them to lie down in green pastures; but at times they wander through a wilderness, where there is no water, and they find no city to dwell in. Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainteth within them, and they cry unto the Lord in their trouble. Though many of his people live in almost constant joy, and find that religion’s ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace, yet there are many who pass through fire and through water: |
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Concept of Christian Psychology Dr Romuald Jaworski
Introduction
The subject discussed seems to need an apology. Whenever I say that I am a representative of Christian psychology, I can hear caustic remarks such as “And does such exist at all?” or “Well, once, under the reds’ rule there was Marxist psychology and now under the blacks’ rule there will be a Christian one”. I hope that the arguments for the necessity of the development of Christian psychology and its offer allowing to understand more profoundly man and help him make the most of his life will turn out to be strong enough for the target audience. |
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Book Launch: Why people are hurting, and how they can be safely helped The Void: book launch: 17July 2009 With day to day life becoming increasingly stressful and challenging a new book, The Void, looks at the reasons why more and more people are hurting, and how that hurt can show. It also explores how people can be safely offered psychological and emotional support. |
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Twelve Steps for Christian Living Part 1
Romans 7:18 (NLT) I know I am rotten through and through, so far as my old sinful nature is concerned. No matter which way I turn, I can't make myself do right. I want to, but I can't. I want you to take a journey with me along a path of recovery. I am going to "borrow" liberally from the original Twelve Steps program that was designed in the 1930s by Bill Wilson for recovering alcoholics. I have tweaked the steps to help us become more Christ-like. I am not an expert on these steps, but the more I learn about them, the more I find they can apply to all of us, as a tool for helping us understand ourselves and manage our lives through God's help. The Twelve Steps is a spiritual program, and I pray that through this series, we can develop a closer relationship to our God Who is greater than us and is still in control. Come now; let's go on this journey and see where God takes us. |
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Despair: Carriers, Symptoms and Antidotes In II Corinthians 1:8, the Apostle Paul makes a startling admission of despair
“We do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, of the affliction we experienced in Asia; for we were so utterly, unbearably crushed that we despaired of life itself.”
In 4:8, it is clear that the problems are still there, but the despair is losing influence:
“We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair…”
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Association of Christian Counsellors Pastoral Skills The Essential Guide Association of Christian Counsellors easy-to-use teaching resource
Are you a busy, overworked minister or church leader wanting to build or support your pastoral care team?
Are you a church member already or about to get involved in pastoral care, but who feels that some practical training and information would enable you to work more effectively and safely?
If so, then the answer to your prayers could be the form of an easy-to-use pastoral skills training course produced by the Association of Christian Counsellors (ACC). |
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Edification: The Journals of the Society of Christian Psychology The Society of Christian Psychology Journal has excellent empirical, theoretical, and applied articles dealing with the stated goals of the Society for Christian Psychology. Contributions come from diverse disciplines as long as they remain relevant to the broad domain of Christian psychology. In other words, papers are accepted not only from psychologists, but also from those working in other disciplines like theology, philosophy, the psychology of religion, and pastoral ministry, to mention on a few. Please click the links below to view past issues of the Edification Journal:- |
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Locating Christian Psychology by By Eric L. Johnson To many, the idea of a Christian psychology is as nonsensical as Christian chemistry or Christian car mechanics. Psychology is a science, they say, and the hallmark of science is that its methods yield a universal knowledge to which all interested parties can subscribe, irrespective of their particular religious or philosophical views. This is the view of modernism, it was the founding framework of modern psychology, and it continues to be the dominant world-view within mainstream psychology to this day. |
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Wrong things said in church in response to Christian mental illness "There must be something wrong with your spiritual life."
Yes, depression CAN be a result of sin. BUT depression is NOT always a result of sin! If it is, God will tell you loud and clear what the problem is.
This saying piles on the guilt for the depressed Christian. It's unlikely that their depression has a spiritual cause, and this implies that they are not good enough spiritually. |
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Psychology and the Church Laying a Foundation for Discernment Part 1
Few topics spawn more debate and confusion among Christians as does psychology. While some accept it wholesale and others reject it entirely, most struggle to determine which aspects of it to accept and which to reject. Is it possible to put this knotty subject into clear biblical perspective? Bob and Gretchen Passantino answer yes, and are prepared to show us how.
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