TIL 234: Dealing with Suicide in the Church: a Pastoral Perspective (feat. Nick Ellen)
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
4.8 • 627 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2019
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Featuring: * What are the categories of suicide * What is the counsel for suicide * What should we consider about suicide Notes: Nicolas Ellen - Understanding and Dealing with Suicide, 2019 Annual Conference Sermon * https://vimeo.com/368079760 Valley of the Shadow: Suicide, Self-harm, and the Scriptures Resource Package * https://biblicalcounseling.com/store/all-products/2019-annual-conference-suicide-self-harm-and-scripture/
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| 0:00.0 | Suicide in the church, a pastoral perspective on this edition of Truth and Love. |
| 0:12.8 | I'm Dale Johnson and you're listening to Truth in Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified |
| 0:17.7 | Biblical Counselors, where we seek to provide biblical solutions for the problems that people face. |
| 0:24.0 | There are a few people that I get more excited to be around than Pastor Nick Ellen. |
| 0:28.9 | Nick, I'm so grateful that you're here with us. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm going to tell a little bit about you to some of our listeners. |
| 0:34.4 | You're actually twice a doctor now. |
| 0:36.7 | You have a D-Men from Southern |
| 0:37.9 | Seminary and a Ph.D. from Southwestern Seminary in biblical counseling. You're actually |
| 0:42.9 | the first African-American to become a fellow and a certified member back in 2004 with ACBC. |
| 0:51.0 | And you're also serving as pastor of Community of faith Bible Church, as well as professor |
| 0:56.9 | at the College of Biblical Studies. And this guy goes and teaches everywhere on planet Earth. |
| 1:01.9 | And I love it. And I've seen him several times even in this past year. We've had a great time together. |
| 1:06.9 | Brother, it's so good to have you with us on the podcast. |
| 1:10.1 | Thank you for having me. It's been a privilege to serve with you in all these places we've been together. |
| 1:14.6 | Amen. |
| 1:15.6 | Now, as we think about a very difficult subject, the subject of suicide, |
| 1:19.6 | this is certainly a growing epidemic in the world that we live in. |
| 1:23.6 | And there are a thousand ways that we could talk about this. |
| 1:26.6 | I think it's important, |
| 1:27.8 | Nick, with your background and history as a pastor, that you can really help give us some |
| 1:33.5 | insight when a member or someone associated with our church commit suicide and the impact that |
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