This article came from: Dr. Rick Thomas Founder & Director Mt. Carmel Ministries & Biblical Counseling Education 816-437-8410 www.mtcarmelmin.org Lamentations Author: Probably Jeremiah although others have been suggested. Date: Sometime around the final fall of Jerusalem in 587 BC Purpose: Lamentations means “lamenting,” “sorrow.” The author is greatly saddened, grieved, and in painful anguish over […]
Serotonin and Depression Advertising
Here is a great article on the difference between advertising and science regarding serotonin and depression medications. The authors state that “contemporary neuroscience research has failed to confirm any serotonergic lesion in any mental disorder and has in fact provided significant counterevidence to the explanation of simple neurotransmitter deficiency….To our knowledge, there is not a […]
Recent research on non-biblical Treatment for Depression
Recent research would indicate that the current medical treatments do not seem to work well for depressed.1 At the same time, there is concern concern that the way we make diagnosis will apply the label of depressed to many who actually have emotional struggles but no disease.2 There is also some indication that medicines may […]
Patience in Counseling
Working with someone who has practiced surrendering herself to her emotions for years requires much patience. In this type of situation, the counselor must be willing gently to repeat core teachings as often as necessary. Concluding that counselees with severe disturbances are not really trying can have destructive results in their lives. More than one […]
possessing Christ’s righteousness
Christian women who have been abused in childhood often confuse the exhortations and commands in Scripture with the harsh judgments of their abusers. They feel condemned by the passages intended to comfort them. For this reason it is crucially important to build a firm foundation on the indicatives of Scripture (what God has done for […]
Successful Ministry
Can someone who can’t see, hear, or talk be “successful in ministry”? One of the most effective evangelists I’ve ever met was a child who never uttered a word. Mandy was born into our family two years ago, severely and profoundly retarded due to microcephaly. At first we desperately prayed that Mandy would develop some […]
Depression
Introduction: Depression has become ubiquitous in our culture. Both men and women suffer from it, including kids and even animals (http://pets.webmd.com/dogs/features/depression-in-dogs). Everyone, it seems, is suffering from depression. Text: Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? (Ps. 42:5) You have taken my companions and loved ones […]
Shame
Introduction: When Ed Welch begins a lecture on shame he often asks the audience if they have ever experienced shame. He pauses and adds ‘debilitating shame.” Most of the time, everyone in the room raises his or her hand. When describing what shame is, one author likens it to the response of a supreme court […]
For Those Who Suffer
When the cares of my heart are many, your consolations cheer my soul. (Psa 94:19 ESV)