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Rethinking Mental Health Care: How the Church Can Transform a Broken System

Matthew S Stanford -
Mental health is the great mission field of the 21st century, and it is time the Church recognized its God-given role. The involvement of the Church is the missing piece necessary to transform our broken system.
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Articles for Youth Leaders

Youth Bible Study on Mental Health: 12 Resources to Use With Teens

Stephanie Martin -
Leading a youth Bible study on mental health can provide fascinating, applicable insights for students.
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Articles for Outreach & Missions

Post Traumatic Church Disorder: 12 Symptoms and 5 Treatments

Ben Reed -
Just below the surface, it affects daily interactions, vision casting and strategic planning. It affects how we relate to God and how we relate to others. I call it Post Traumatic Church Disorder.
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Articles for Pastors

How Anxiety Can Be Good for Us

Josh Weidmann -
The truth is anxiety doesn’t discriminate, no matter how spiritually mature or how well versed you are in scripture. Fear can strike anyone at any given time without regard for who they are or what they do. Here's how God can use your anxiety for something good.
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Articles for Outreach & Missions

Medical Missions: How Community Health Evangelism Heals Lives and Transforms Hurting Communities

Dr. Ravi I. Jayakaran -
Community Health Evangelism/Education (CHE) incorporates physical and spiritual education with a special focus on prevention of disease, not treatment after the fact. These medical missions heal an transform communities.
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Christian News

Coming Out, Mental Health Crisis in the Background of Steve Austin’s Suicide

Jessica Lea -
Recent blog posts from former pastor Steve Austin show that before his apparent suicide, he had come out as queer and his wife, Lindsey Austin, was hospitalized for significant mental health problems.
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Friends Mourn Steve Austin, Former Pastor and Author Who Wrote About Suicide and Mental Health

Bob Smietana -
Steve Austin, a former pastor who wrote candidly about his struggles with mental health, has died. 
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Articles for Pastors

Rick Warren: ‘It’s Not a Sin to Be Sick’

Bob Ditmer -
Pastor Rick Warren has praised a pastoral letter discussing mental health and the church. The letter, titled, “Hope and Healing,” calls for an end to the stigma around mental illness and for greater collaboration between science and medical professionals and people of faith.
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Articles for Pastors

50 Good Mental Health Habits

Brad Hambrick -
Good mental health does not happen by accident. Mentally healthy people make small, daily choices that contribute to their mental health.
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Articles for Pastors

Elijah the Prophet: What We Can Learn From His Mental Health

Bill Reese -
Many spiritual leaders in the Bible struggled to obtain victory while serving faithfully. The story of Elijah the Prophet is just one case study model for ministry. Many pastors and church leaders can learn a valuable lesson on self-care and God’s provision to take care of His own.
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Christian News

The Surprising Way This Group of Nuns Provides Mental Health Ministry

Religion News Service -
You can see in the numbers how much mental health was just a real concern. These nuns are not psychologists and they needed extra help. Here's what they're using today.
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Articles for Outreach & Missions

Can Someone Be Spiritually Healthy and Still Experience Mental Health Challenges?

Brad Hambrick -
“Can someone (a) embrace the gospel, (b) practice spiritual disciplines, display (c) personal devotion and (d) devout character, and (e) have a robust theology and still experience mental health challenges?”
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Articles for Children's Ministry Leaders

Do You Need to Update Your Kidmin Wellness Policies and Procedures?

Jenny Funderburke Smith -
As we begin to slowly reopen our children’s ministry, we are updating our wellness and sick policies. I wanted to share them in case your church is in this process as well.
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Articles for Pastors

Quarantine’s Psychological Toll: 3 Disorders to Watch Out For

Eliza Huie -
Learning from the history of SARS and other illness-related quarantines, mental, emotional and relational health will have suffered under the period of social distancing. Here's what church leaders need to know.
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Christian News

Korn Guitarist Helps People Heal by Launching Wellness Centers

Jessica Lea -
Brian “Head” Welch of the band Korn has recently launched a series of wellness centers to help people pursue healing of mind and body. At the same time, he and his daughter are continuing to share their story of redemption.
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Mental Health

Steve Cuss: The Anxiety That Is Unique to Church Leaders

Jason Daye -
"Church leadership puts us under tremendous pressure, every one of us," says Steve Cuss. Steve gained valuable insights about dealing with anxiety when he was a trauma chaplain, insights he has found to be highly relevant to church leaders today.
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Articles for Pastors

Dealing With Depression in Ministry

Paul David Tripp -
The harsh reality of life in a dramatically broken world and what remaining sin does to the hearts of us all.
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Articles for Pastors

The Idol That’s Eating Away at Your Church

Steve Hoppe -
What do these 20 celebrities have in common? All of them have battled eating disorders -- unhealthy relationships with food they’ve all been brave enough to go public...
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Articles for Pastors

10 Questions to Assess the Health of a Pastor

Ron Edmondson -
We must address pastoral health if we want to encourage healthy churches. The two easily go together.
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Articles for Outreach & Missions

6 Ways Watching Pornography Affects Your Mental Health

Brad Hambrick -
Christian counselor Brad Hambrick discusses six pornography effects that impact a person's mental health.
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