Natural Disasters And The Mentally Ill

Psalm 9:10  And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you.
This article is pretty much spur of the moment and I hope it in no way diminishes the importance of the topic I am seeking to address.  As I am considering [...]

Some beautiful Christian songs.

I have a deep love for music and I am going to share some from time to time.  I hope you take a listen and if there’s a song you’d like to see, I’ll try to find it on Youtube and share it.  God bless!

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Prayer Requests and Praise Reports- August 29

Psalm 19:1  How clearly the sky reveals God’s glory! How plainly it shows what he has done!
Psalm 19:2  Each day announces it to the following day; each night repeats it to the next.
Psalm 19:3  No speech or words are used, no sound is heard;
Psalm 19:4  yet their message goes out to all the world and [...]

Being Re-parented by Abba

By Pastor Larry Taylor

February 9, 2001

Professional counselors often are in contact with individuals whose home life was sufficiently negative as to require a process sometimes dubbed “re-parenting”, which involves helping the individual relearn the lessons of childhood with a more positive parental role model.
Negatively inspired families are usually classified “dysfunctional” – a term I [...]

Anorexia Nervosa

We have all seen stories on television that have featured a person(s) who is pretty much skin and bones.  Many times that is our introduction to Anorexia Nervosa.  I first learned of this illness because of two celebrities who were its victims.  Karen Carpenter was a famous singer through the 60’s and 70’s and tragically, [...]

Darrell Mansfield- An eye opening testimony of mental illness

On April 3, 1976 I became a Christian as the result of hearing the Gospel preached after music was shared by Eric Nelson and Gentle Faith.  The lead singer for Gentle Faith was Darrell Mansfield.  I recall Darrell sharing about how he had attempted suicide five years earlier.
In the last several years, there was a [...]

Our Dependency on Christ

This is taken from the devotional “Streams In The Desert.”

“We are troubled on every side” (2 Cor. 7:5).

Why should God have to lead us thus, and allow
the pressure to be so hard and constant? Well, in
the first place, it shows His all-sufficient
strength and grace much better than if we were
exempt from pressure and trial. [...]

Prayer Requests and Praise Reports- August 22

“Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not only because we feel our own need as a burden we must lay upon God, but also because we are so bound up in love for our fellow men that we feel their need as acutely as our own. To make intercession for men is [...]

Mental Health 101

When trying to think of something to publish for today it dawned on me to get to some basic facts about Mental Illness.  With the permission of NAMI I am reproducung an article from their web site.  At the bottom of the article you will see a link to a NAMI fact sheet.  I strongly [...]

God’s Hand Extended

In the book of Genesis, chapter 2, we read the following….
Genesis 2:18  And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.
Of course we realize that God fixed that by creating Eve.  This allowed the human race to begin and provided Adam [...]