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Grace for the Afflicted: A Clinical and Biblical Perspective on Mental Illness is unavailable, but you can change that!

Why has the church struggled in ministering to those with mental illnesses?Each day men and women diagnosed with mental disorders are told they need to pray more and turn from their sin. Mental illness is equated with demonic possession, weak faith, and generational sin. As both a church leader and a professor of psychology and behavioral sciences, Matthew S. Stanford has seen far too many...

godliness in him (2 Peter 1:3). That is true in the spiritual realm, but remember that we are a unity of parts. What happens to our body, mind, and relationships after we are transformed in the spirit? We were born affected by sin, and we lived some period of time before coming to Christ. Consequently, we have habits, thought patterns, and biological predispositions that are the result of our old self. This “sinful flesh” does not disappear because we have been
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