Church Disorder

We've seen the news stories and heard the rumors. Maybe we ourselves have been hurt by a narcissistic church leader. It's easy to throw the term around and diagnose others from afar. But what is narcissism, really? And how does it infiltrate the church?

The church across North America has struggled to minister effectively with people struggling with mental health issues. One reason for the lack of ministry is the absence of a widely accepted model for mental health outreach and inclusion. In Mental Health and the Church, Dr. Stephen Grcevich presents a simple and flexible model for mental health inclusion ministry for implementation by churches of all sizes, denominations, and organizational styles.

Fictionalized version of a friend's horrible experience converting to Catholicism. Candid story about their struggles with mental illness and how people were very nasty to them as they went through the process known as Roman Catholic Instruction for Adults, the process any adult converting to Catholicism is required to do from September to Easter of each year.

In the aftermath of the pandemic, even those who have never struggled with mental health have found themselves reeling, looking for answers they don't know how to find. For Christians, especially those who've despaired of help from a church that has too often stigmatized poor mental health as a lack of faith, the way forward can be particularly difficult to see. Jonathon Seidl aims to fix that. Having fought his own way through crippling anxiety, life-altering OCD, and suicidal thoughts, he knows the value of concrete advice grounded in strong biblical truth.

The greatest nightmare in Christianity is a Bride who doesn’t love her Groom. Jesus is expecting His Bride to be unblemished and without a wrinkle. The Narcissistic Bride of Christ is a prophetic encouragement for the Church to recognize that narcissistic behavior within us is destructive. Narcissism, proper name Ruach Narcissus, is a spirit that attaches itself to humans that make up the Bride of Christ. This spiritual oppression attacks the Bride because the Bride herself is a spiritual principle. We must put on our spiritual eyes and take a journey through scripture to defeat this ...

Mental Illness is real. Will the Church get real? This book is a collection of essays from various authors: men and women, pastors and congregants, counselors and nurses, parents and children. All have a unique view of how mental health conditions affect people, and how the church has responded to these circumstances. Whispers in the Pews tackles how the mentally ill have been, and still are, treated in the church at large by sharing stories. This is not fundamentally a teaching book, but a book of moments and lives, knitted together by the common theme of mental health.