TIL 176: Suicide (feat. Keith Palmer)
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
4.8 • 627 Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2018
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Suicide on this edition of Truth and Love. |
| 0:10.8 | I'm Dale Johnson and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified |
| 0:15.6 | Biblical Counselors, where we seek to provide biblical solutions for the problems that people face. |
| 0:22.3 | This week, I am so excited to have one of my dear friends, Keith Palmer, on the podcast with us. |
| 0:28.7 | He's an associate pastor at Grace Bible Church here in Granbury, Texas. |
| 0:34.2 | He's also a training center director for the Center for Biblical Counseling and Discipleship |
| 0:38.8 | in Granbury. He's also a fellow of the board at ACBC. And so Keith, we're excited that you're here. |
| 0:46.0 | We're so grateful for the wisdom that the Lord's given you in helping us think through these very |
| 0:50.3 | difficult issues. Well, thanks, Dale. It's good to be here. And yeah, it is a challenging topic, |
| 0:54.3 | but it's one that we really need to be talking about in our churches. That's right. As we think |
| 0:59.2 | about this issue of suicide, one of the things that's critical as we move forward, especially |
| 1:05.1 | in the church, us paying attention to what's really going on in the culture, now suicide is seen as the 10th leading cause of death |
| 1:14.2 | among adults. One of the things that we also need to know is that among adolescents, some people |
| 1:20.0 | estimate that it is the first leading cause of death among adolescents. So it's something that we in the |
| 1:26.1 | church really need to be paying attention to. |
| 1:28.3 | What are some of the common characteristics of suicidal ideation or what are some of those |
| 1:33.5 | warning signs that we as ministers of the gospel ought to be looking for? Maybe we can start just by |
| 1:39.0 | thinking about some of the reasons that suicidal people give and then we can look also at things you could maybe notice more from a distance. So some of the reasons that suicidal people give, and then we can look also at things you could maybe |
| 1:45.8 | notice more from a distance. |
| 1:47.2 | So some of the reasons people give for wanting to commit suicide are various issues of rejection, |
| 1:53.5 | you know, a breakup, loss of a friend, increasing age and just illnesses related to the aging |
| 2:00.0 | process, loneliness, maybe through a divorce or the death |
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