Author Archives
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Why Mental Health Care Belongs in the Church
Emphasizing mental health in the church is crucial because it enables faith communities to offer holistic care, break stigma, and promote healing for individuals who often feel isolated or overlooked.
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What Should Our Church Actually Do About Mental Health Care?
Effective strategies for mental health advocacy in the church include several key approaches beginning with openly addressing mental health issues in sermons and church communications to reduce stigma and normalize discussion.
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How Do Faith and Mental Health Care Fit Together?
The relationship between mental health and Christian faith is multifaceted, involving spiritual, psychological, and social dimensions.
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Building a Moveable Pulpit for Mental Health: Connecting Our Stories to God’s Story
Preaching should and must have a great impact on the welfare, present and future, of the human race. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, approximately 1 in 5 adults in the US struggles with mental illness in a given year.
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Mental Health and the Church: Strategies for Faithful and Compassionate Ministry
It has been said that much of the world is in a mental health crisis, especially in this post-pandemic era. “At least one in five, and in some parts of the world perhaps as many as one in two, people experience mental ill health during the course of their lifetime.” This has serious implications.
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Music of Dan & Beth Sonnenberg
We recently added a number of songs and clips from previous concerts and recordings to this playlist which now totals 49 recordings. https://youtu.be/RD81vNpGT04?list=PL1kZnq1uNgfmKoQ7_awtqyIb6RRLvGJI9
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Principles of Hermeneutics, Homiletics and Expository Sermon Writing
If you wrote a letter with some statements in it that are a little ambiguous, then what does the letter mean? It means what you intended it to mean, not what the reader thinks it might mean. The true meaning of a text resides in the authorial intent of the text.
