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• When a Church Faces a Mental Health Crisis: Staying Calm, Staying Present, and Helping the Person Who Is in Danger (Part 5 of 13)

  By dsonnenberg on May 26, 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  A crisis is not simply “someone having a hard week.” It is a situation where a person may be in immediate danger, has lost significant contact with reality, or cannot reliably keep themselves safe. Mental health crises can include suicidal thoughts, self-harm, psychosis, severe agitation, or a person becoming unable to care for themselves safely. When someone is in crisis, the church’s first job is not to fix everything. It is to stay calm and stay present.

• Bearing One Another’s Burdens: The Church’s Call to Mental Health Ministry

  By dsonnenberg on April 20, 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  The stories of David, Job, Jeremiah, Elijah, Hannah, Jonah and Jesus remind us that emotional pain has always been part of the human experience, but God’s compassion is greater than our despair.

• 10 Best Practices for Overcoming Mental Health Stigma and Misconceptions in the Church

  By dsonnenberg on April 20, 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  Helpful practices for overcoming mental health stigma and misconceptions in the church include education and awareness, open dialogue, using respectful language, challenging discrimination and many more.

• Retirement Recap Video: Dan & Beth Sonnenberg 10 Years Training Pastors & Leaders in Latin America with Timothy Two Project International

  By dsonnenberg on March 22, 2026 • ( 0 )

  See photos of over 600 pastors and ministry leaders from 43 workshop groups in 14 countries throughout Mexico, Central America, South America and the Caribbean as well as 18 National Missionary Partners

• Common Mental Health Stigmas (Negative, Unfair Beliefs, Misconceptions and Myths) in the Church and Community

  By dsonnenberg on February 24, 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  In both church and community, mental health is often seen as a spiritual failure, a personal weakness, or something shameful and dangerous, rather than as a real health issue that can affect anyone and often needs both spiritual and professional care.

• What is the Intermediate State After Death According to the Westminster Confession and Catechisms

  By dsonnenberg on January 3, 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  The Westminster standards teach that after death, believers’ souls go immediately to be with Christ in the highest heavens, where they are made perfect in holiness, while their bodies rest in the grave until the resurrection. For the wicked, the standards teach that their souls are cast into hell at death, while their bodies remain in the grave until the final judgment.

• How Christ Became Human: The Two Miracles

  By dsonnenberg on December 18, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  “The mediator, who was to reconcile God and humanity, had to be himself both God and human and in one person to make the works appropriate to each nature acceptable to God on our behalf and counted on by us as the works of the whole person.” (Westminster Larger Catechism Q.40)