Speak The Truth

Episode Notes: – Made to minister Regional Conference  W/Carl & Laura Chica from Salem Heights Church. – The Unfortunate Reality of Oregon’s mental illness epidemic among children and adolesence; they have the highest  rate of suiscide attempts, depression, and anxiety in the country and don’t have the help they need to meet the need with licensed professional counselors. – Most folks are having to wait several weeks to receive help, so they’ve bee working – Suicidality; 4 pepople above the national average – 1,800/kids per national helath professional vs. Oregon’s average 10k/kids per national health professional– One of our children has walked through mental illness, so it has prepared us for what God had brought to us as the church. – Their church need began to be known among the community to where they were receiving a great response for real help that the state and state sponosored help wasn’t able to provide help to the extent they were able to provide. – Over n’ Over again, they noticed the church and the church commiunity was able to provide a sense of purpose and help, namely Christ, that people were able to experience real hope and life change. – Most of those who struggle with mental illness isolate themselves, but the biblical community of the church helps provide a loving accontablity. – Made To Minister is “made” to come along someone who needs help, ministering. The state isn’t able to accomplish that in of iteself. – One of the struggles is that, historically, the church has reduced mental illness/struggles is that it can be resolved with more reading of scripture, prayer, etc. So we’ve drawn attention to the physiological reality of the implications of mental illness. – The millenial generation has been labeled the therapy generation; they’re open to emotional struggles. They’re saying that 51% of them have addmitted to losing a job because of emotional dispositions and supposed mental illnesses. – Join us to help minister -     Episode Resources Made To Minister's - WebsiteJourney - A Path To Biblical Change

Episode Notes: – Salem Heights, Lead Pastor, Justin Greene,  – Carl Chica, Pastor of pastoral care & counseling – Bringing biblical counseling in their local church context, origin, and development of biblical counseling in their church; the impact in the local church and in the community at large. – The ministry started to happen naturally; given the need and just starting counseling as the need came. – It began small but had a quick and immediate impact within the body, so they started equipping the lay leaders in their church. – Being a light in a dark place like Oregon where the need is so great. – Be Bold - Street Ministry going back into the streets that they were delivered from. – Identifying leaders; observing those who were responding richly to the Word of God, who do people go to when they're having problems, etc. – Having a person aside from you so we don’t isolate - having a person walking alongside the struggling. – They hired a pastor to build the counseling ministry. – What’s the need? Determining the need determines the process and decision of the counseling ministry. – We’re working together, it's an “in tandem” approach. – Pursue discipleship, be available to others; leaders don’t have to wait, serve now. – Pastor’s don’t have to be territorial, they just need to be available. – Paul needed a Barnabas, so find them, and cultivate them, and launch them out in your church. Episode Resources: Made To Minister Website & ResourcesSalem Heights Church Email Questions To: topics@speakthetruth.net  

Episode NotesMoving from Planting (Metro Church) to an already established church (The Mount). Creating an environment that allows people to struggle, starting from the platform. Truth Renewed isn’t a replacement for the church regarding counseling, but an overflow of care. Truth Renewed is a training center to help equip church leaders to become biblical counselors and launch biblical counseling in the local church. Trident of ministry; robust theology, organization strategy, counsel and care.In the same way, we raise up leaders to make Sunday happen, we need to raise up care leaders for the rest of the week - where ministry lives.Don’t stop plowing, it takes time to bring life change and equipping the saints. Trust the process of sanctification.Find those in your congregation who are gifted in caring for others, they’re serious about God’s Word and the process of transformation, and scholarship them. Find a line item in your budget to cultivate the saints in soul care. The posture of a pastor should be a leader of learning. Sunday morning is to edify the saints. Email us on any topics; topics@speakthetruth.org Reach out to Shauna if  you’d like to start a biblical counseling ministry @ christiancounseling.com Episode Resources: The Mount ChurchMetro ChurchRage Ministries Instruments in the Redeemer's Hand's Christiancounseling.com Information about training your lay leaders as biblical counselors or becoming a training center, email Shauna, Shauna@christiancounseling.com 

Six Scriptural Truths that we need to focus on: Gal. 1.10 - Trusting in the LORD. What we trust is where our fear comes from.   Faith is the willingness to look foolish. Humility - it’s not about me, but the work that God is accomplishing through me. James 3.13-18  - Wisdom from above, anything else is demonic. Jn 20.21 - Peace in the Father’s Will.  Ezk. 2: 1-6: God’s will over man’s; we’ve been called into this co-prophets of God’s gospel - man won’t hear it all the time, but God has given us the “go-and-make” call, the gospel is prophetic! Col. 3.15-17  - Thankfulness Pro. 29.25 - Safty  

Episode Notes: As a podcast devoted to biblical truth for counseling & discipleship for the counselor and local church, we wanted to invite our friend, Ronnie Mills, Pastor of Kingdom Chapel North Fort WorthBaptist Missionary Association of Texas help Ronnie launch out in their church plant Kingdom Chapel is located Alliance Christian Academy Biblical counseling training has greatly improved his discipleship efforts and his preaching. Biblical counseling has already begun to be rooted in the DNA of the church, so we can raise up leaders through discipleship and biblical counseling to strengthen the body, and keep it healthy. Email Speak The Truth about getting a biblical counseling ministry started in your church; topics@speakthetruth.org 5 Resolves for soul careGod has called meGod has gone before mePastor now - shepherd nowStay relative to “us”. .....Raise leaders - we can’t do this on our own. The hardest thing about church planting is putting yourself out there. Fear of man becomes a huge struggle for putting yourself out there as leaders.  Episode Resources:  Kingdom Chapel - North Fort Worth Missionary Baptist Association of Texas Truth Renewed Biblical CounselingAssociation of Biblical Counselors Alliance Christian Academy Exemplary Husband - Stewart Scott  

Episode Notes: ◎ Scriptural examples: Jer. 17.5 - a powerful diagnostic ◎ living a cursed life when we anchor our lives in the flesh of our selves and others; living life in our own way. ◎ Ps. 1 ◎ a thriving fruitful tree even in a time of drought. ◎ Where does he place the location of the problem? ◎ How much change would be established if he changed his routines? ◎ Does he understand his own anger? ◎ Proverbs, Psalms, etc. speak to the nature of anger; who’s is the object of his anger? ◎ Jer. 17.9-10; human nature demonstrates the nature of the heart, how is he examining his heart and the result of anger? 

Episode Notes: ◎ Andy reports being angry all the time◎ Things we would address with Andy based on the summary of his behavior and his own perspective on life◎ what does he think is going on◎ what does he really get angry about◎ Does Andy have a victim mindset?◎ Was he motivated by his dad’s approval?◎ What is uninteresting about God◎ Does he consider himself as a Christian?◎ More discussion around his understanding of God. ◎ How does he understand his own anger? ◎ What does Andy think his problem is?  

Episode Notes:Marks from Joseph Pipa's book - The LORD's Day◎ Scriptures: Isa 58:13-14; The purpose of the Sabbath - ◎ pg. 13; 17 (Rev. 1.10)Original Intent Gen. 2.1-3; ◎ The market day of the Soul Exod. 20.9-11; ◎ pg. 42; 44-45; First Day Sabbath Heb. 4.9-10 Ex. 20:8-15: In the same way the 7th commandment speaks to the ordinance of marriage - the creational mandate - by not committing adultery, and the 8th structures the creation ordinance of work. Episode Resources: Joseph Pipa - The Lord's DayJames K. A.  SMITH - HOW NOT TO BE SECULAR James Taylor - Secular Age

Episode Notes:◎ Self-Care: how to avoid burnout.◎ Going beyond our Sunday services and quite times to ensure we’re investing in our soul’s with God’s Word.  ◎ Psalm 73.26, not Psalm. 76.13, there is no verse 13. ◎ 26 My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.  (Ps. 73.26)◎ Establishing a rhythm of rest at least one day of the week. ◎ Physically, Spiritually, Intellectually, Emotionally◎ Ps. 46.10◎ A way to prevent taking things home is resting in the theological doctrine of God’s sovereignty - realizing God’s care and concern for those that we’re counseling.  ◎ How do I work through the burden for them and their circumstances and be ok with how my circumstances are not nearly as difficult◎ Taking those thoughts captive when we begin to feel guilty that our lives aren’t “as bad as others who suffer more”.  ◎ Counseling will invariably stir up our own stuff. ◎ Who’s in our life to speak into our life when we get stirred? ◎ Physically, we need to be far more intentional with being active and creating a healthier diet. ◎ Planning is the most important part of self-care. Episode Resources: Call the sabbath a delight - Walter J. Chantry The Lord’s Day - Joseph A. Pipa, JR. Instruments In the redeemer’s hands - Paul Tripp 

Episode Notes: ◎ How would you dig into some of the particulars that they’re struggling with that affecting their sex life and ultimately, their marital life?◎ how they’re day-to-day grind is affecting their marriage, sexually, emotionally, and intellectually. that they’ve become so horizontally focused that they’ve lost sight of the vertical importance to their horizontal. ◎ Defining the Why of what we do. ◎ Do they see how they're destroying one another? ◎ How can they incarnate a merciful spirit?  ◎ Identify the schema of their belief…go to those hurtful places and their beliefs of one another, that reinforces their spirit of justice.◎ Fill in the blank statements that reveal their primary schema, and begin to offer ways to tweak their thinking. ◎ 1 Pet. 2.16-23; a text to demonstrate our call to good regardless of what’s being done to us. ◎ Working through the biblical category of removing and replacing. Episode Resources: ◎ Sex and the supremacy of Christ◎ Sexual Sanity (men)◎ Sexual Sanity (women) ◎ Christiancounseling.com◎ Speakthetruth.org