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In this episode, hosts, Mike, Shauna, and Jeremy discuss with special guest, Pastor of Counseling, Brad Hambrick of The Summit Church in Durham, NC the reality of "Burnout"  - resting in God's fairness. Brad argues burnout is actually a consequence of our life management, and he shows us how to create a time budget to avoid living beyond our means with the time God has provided. What is Burnout?What Causes Burnout?You mention motives in burnout…can you speak to that? -pride, fear & approval of manYou suggest doing a time budget…can you share more about that?What are your suggestions to help prevent burnout?How would a pastor or biblical counselor use this as a resource in counseling?Episode References:Burnout: Resting In God's Fairnesswww.bradhambrick.com/events - webinar call for pastors and counselors.

In this episode, the hosts, Mike, Shauna, and Jeremy are back in the studio to discuss the "Gospel For Real Life" series that will be launching over the next 6 weeks that will be super helpful and practical in the counseling room. This series includes burnout, self-centered spouses, God's attributes, depression, PTSD, and cutting - they then discuss the 2021 ABC National Conference.Gospel Care Collective W/Jason KovacsR3stored Ministries W/Carl & Laura ChicaShauna@christiancounseling.com with any questions regarding training centersEmail us at topics@speakthetruth.org with anything you'd like us to discuss.

The need in the deaf communityStatistics:90% of deaf children are born to hearing parents85% of mothers learn to sign and about 2% of fathers learn to signso most don't learn to communicate in their heart language(sign language).The deaf is considered an unreached people group, so less than 2% of the deaf community are believers in America.70 Million deaf and hard of hearing people in the world.Fall of 2020 a bible was translated into the heart language(sign language)Sunshine InterpretersDeaf Millennial ProjectDeaf Bible Society Deaf Missions Door International 

Booklet Summary Anxiety: Anatomy and Cure presents God’s prescription for victory in anxiety. Worry, doubt, and fear get the best of us all sometimes. Anxiety, like any other negative emotion, is a twisted version of something positive from God. Since we live in a fallen world, we may never have full victory over anxiety on this side of heaven. However, Bob Kellemen counsels that we can have victory in our anxieties—we can learn to use anxiety when it strikes and avoid the temptation to sin. In this biblical applicational study, Bob lays out a proper Christian view of anxiety from Creation to Fall to Redemption to Consummation. Along the way, he helps us apply the gospel to our daily lives and reclaim anxiety for what it should be—a vigilance to motivate us to do God’s work.Purchase Anxiety: Anatomy and Cure To learn more about the books, including free resources and sample chapters, people can visit Bob’s RPM Ministries website: www.rpmministries.org.Also, RPM Ministries has it's own secure, user-friendly RPM Ministries Book Store (https://rpmministries.org/store/) where people can order either book individually for 35% off, or they can purchase the two books together for 40% off.About Bob Kellemen:Bob Kellemen, Th.M., Ph.D.: Dr. Kellemen is Academic Dean, Dean of Students, and Professor of Biblical Counseling at Faith Bible Seminary in Lafayette, Indiana. Bob is also the Founder and CEO of RPM Ministries through which he speaks, writes, and consults on biblical counseling and Christian living. Dr. Kellemen served as the founding Executive Director of the Biblical Counseling Coalition. For seventeen years, Bob was the founding Chairman of and Professor in the MA in Christian Counseling and Discipleship department at Capital Bible Seminary in Lanham, MD. Bob has pastored four churches and equipped biblical counselors in each church. Bob and his wife, Shirley, have been married for thirty-nine years; they have two adult children, Josh and Marie, and three granddaughters. Dr. Kellemen is the author of twenty books including Gospel-Centered Marriage Counseling and Gospel-Centered Family Counseling.

Two-Book Series InformationOn September 15, 2020, Baker Books released Dr. Bob Kellemen’s 19th and 20th books—a two-book series on marriage and family counseling:  Gospel-Centered Marriage Counseling: An Equipping Guide for Pastors and CounselorsGospel-Centered Family Counseling: An Equipping Guide for Pastors and Counselors To learn more about the books, including free resources and sample chapters, people can visit Bob’s RPM Ministries website: www.rpmministries.org. Also, RPM Ministries has it's own secure, user-friendly RPM Ministries Book Store (https://rpmministries.org/store/) where people can order either book individually for 35% off, or they can purchase the two books together for 40% off. About Bob Kellemen: Bob Kellemen, Th.M., Ph.D.: Dr. Kellemen is Academic Dean, Dean of Students, and Professor of Biblical Counseling at Faith Bible Seminary in Lafayette, Indiana. Bob is also the Founder and CEO of RPM Ministries through which he speaks, writes, and consults on biblical counseling and Christian living. Dr. Kellemen served as the founding Executive Director of the Biblical Counseling Coalition. For seventeen years, Bob was the founding Chairman of and Professor in the MA in Christian Counseling and Discipleship department at Capital Bible Seminary in Lanham, MD. Bob has pastored four churches and equipped biblical counselors in each church. Bob and his wife, Shirley, have been married for thirty-nine years; they have two adult children, Josh and Marie, and three granddaughters. Dr. Kellemen is the author of twenty books including Gospel-Centered Marriage Counseling and Gospel-Centered Family Counseling. 

Biblical Concepualization of OCD 300.3Presence of obsessions, compulsions, or both:Obsessions are conceptualized by the following:Fallen World—There is empirical evidence that obsessions are strongly influenced by factors associated with living in a fallen world (i.e., brain structure, physical, emotional, or sexual abuse at a young age).   Fear—Obsessions within this diagnosis are typically associated with perceived and potentially dreadful outcomes.  For example, becoming contaminated by germs or unbiblical ideas about being condemned by God.Deception—Obsessions are products of a deceptive heart (Jeremiah 17:9), and are not rooted in actual, objective reality.  Self-Focus—Since obsessions create significant distress and anxiety, they will often contribute to an excessive and extreme form of self-focus wherein the vast amount of a person’s cognitive activity and life is centered on his/her subjective reality.Presence of obsessions, compulsions, or both:Compulsions are conceptualized by the following:Control—Unlike obsessions (which are involuntary), compulsions are learned behaviors that are an attempt to control one’s sense of anxiety or distress as well as perceived threats or dreadful outcomes.Deception—Compulsions “feel” uncontrollable, but this is simply another agonizing deception of the heart that is associated with this particular diagnosis.  Additionally, compulsions ultimately do not effectively treat the haunting obsessions that create distress in people.Folly—Defined as a lack of normal prudence and foresight (especially in reference to God). When an individual follows his/her own folly it turns his/her world upside down(Proverbs 19:3).  Counsel may increase fear/anger/distress:When being counseled or treated, counselees are confronted with new ways of seeing and experiencing, and this may manifest increased fear and anger.    

DSM 5 Criteria for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder 300.3Presence of obsessions, compulsions, or both:Obsessions are defined by (1) and (2)Recurrent and persistent thoughts, urges, or images that are experienced, at some time during the disturbance, as intrusive and unwanted, and that in most individuals cause marked anxiety or distress. The individual attempts to ignore or suppress such thoughts, urges, or images, or to neutralize them with some other thought or action (i.e., by performing a compulsion).2. Compulsions are defined by (1) and (2)Repetitive behaviors (e.g., hand washing, ordering, checking) or mental acts (e.g., praying, counting, repeating words silently) that the individual feels driven to perform in response to an obsession or according to rules that must be applied rigidly.  The behaviors or mental acts are aimed at preventing or reducing anxiety or distress, or preventing some dreaded event or situation…clearly excessive.B. Presence of obsessions, compulsions, or both:Compulsions are defined by (1) and (2)Repetitive behaviors (e.g., hand washing, ordering, checking) or mental acts (e.g., praying, counting, repeating words silently) that the individual feels driven to perform in response to an obsession or according to rules that must be applied rigidly.  The behaviors or mental acts are aimed at preventing or reducing anxiety or distress, or preventing some dreaded event or situation…clearly excessive.

This was a podcast we did earlier this year to begin the conversation regarding the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorder with an important disclaimer. In order to re-engage the conversation of counseling people who have been highly psychologized, we wanted to review this episode to set up our episode next week regarding (OCD | Obsessive Compulsive Disorder).Here are the notes from earlier this year on this episode. Stay tuned next week as we continue in our "unpacking diagnoses" mini series: unpacking OCD.The disclaimer is to help pastors, biblical counselors, and lay leaders to engage the culture with this material.– Understanding the DSM and its terms– Not feeling intimidated by labels– Diagnostic damnation - the label becomes the person’s identity– Everyone has a worldview, a lense, a conceptual lens in which they view everything– Secular psychology pushes, what does my theory say - so our theory informs our methodology– The DSM is the bible of Psychiatry– when we encounter these labels, we’re not counseling them, we're counseling the heart - according to scripture

In this episode, host, Mike Van Dyke sits down with Pastor and Biblical Counselor, Lee Lewis to discuss establishing mutual soul care in the local church - bringing soul care into the life and culture of the local church. They discuss the process of evaluating the culture in a church - it's care culture and discipleship culture. And asking questions that may reveal being a Sunday heavy church. Is it time to change the model of our churches? Is the current model producing disciples that are equipped to love as Christ called us to in order to show the world that we are His disciples? Episode Resources: www.soulcareconsulting.com Material: Level 1 - Transforming Mutual Care. Level 2 - Transforming Small Group Leadership

Episode Notes:Trauma-Induced AnxietyThe effects of sinIdentifying gospel gaps in the anxious heartConcern and trouble are sinful, it's when it goes beyond that to worry and anxietyWhat we do with worry either leads to trust or anxiety. And depending on where that trust is, depends on when something turns into full-blown anxiety.Conditioned Anxiety - when one blows right past care and concern into anxiety.Then anxious heart always puts God on trial and questions His character.Episode Resouces:www.bethmariebroom.com