Exposing Psychology, Exalting Christ
April 2005
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Exposing Psychology, Exalting Christ April 2005 |
The apostle Paul was no stranger to sufferings. On one occasion, the Lord Jesus responded to his pleas for help with a reassuring message:
"Concerning this [thorn in the flesh] I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me. And He said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.'" 2 Corinthians 12:8-9
Although Jesus didn't remove the suffering, He did give Paul the strength to endure it.
This month we look at how God's grace--His divine resources and influence upon the heart--are more than enough to meet our needs, whether they be the apostle Paul's thorn in the flesh, Lisa's recent near-death experience or an Arizona woman's bondage to psychology's labels and meds.
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Yours in Christ,
Lisa and Ryan Bazler
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The number of antidepressant-induced murder sprees continues to rise, with March 21st marking the country’s worst school shooting since the Columbine tragedy that took 15 lives in 1999. Like the shooters at Columbine, 16-year-old Jeff Weise was on an antidepressant when he shot and killed his grandparents, five students, a teacher and a security guard at Red Lake High School in Minnesota before turning the gun on himself:
"The [Washington Post] also cited a cultural coordinator at Red Lake Middle School who said Weise had been hospitalized at least once for suicidal tendencies and was taking the anti-depressant Prozac."
Hardly a coincidence, this massacre and others before it explains the FDA's 2004 order for "black-box" labels on all antidepressants warning of an increase in suicidal behavior in adolescents taking the drugs. Read the full article.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,151393,00.html
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Jeff Weise was taking 60 mg of Prozac per day in the weeks before his bloody rampage. His aunt told reporters, "I can't help but think [the dosage] was too much, that it must have set him off." Another family member wondered "whether the drugs could have been the final straw."
The article states an important point about antidepressants: they can be most dangerous during the first few months of treatment, as the brain compensates. That is why we discourage people from ever taking psychiatric medications, even for a very short time to stabilize or get through a difficult time.
http://www.healthsentinel.com/org_news.php?id=034&title=Prozac+%96+Ingredient+in+a+Deadly+Rampage%3F&event=org_news_print_list_item
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When I scheduled a weeklong trip to China in March to visit my employer’s factories, I had no idea that I would soon be halfway around the world when my wife needed me most. Read about Lisa’s near-death experience, and how you can pray for us.
http://www.psychologydebunked.com/email0504_lisa.htm
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Like Job’s friends, we can so easily assume that suffering Christians are being chastened by God for their sin. But this devotional from Bob Hoekstra shows how God can use suffering as part of His plan to perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle us, as we look to Him to experience His sustaining and transforming grace.
http://blueletterbible.org/daybyday/11/1127.html
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This website visitor claims "bipolar is a chemical imbalance," and asks the rhetorical question, "Would you turn someone away from medication for diabetes?" See our response.
http://www.psychologydebunked.com/email0504_Q&A.htm
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This Arizona woman has gone from interest in psychology as a child, to psychology major in college, to mental breakdown, to multiple disorder diagnoses, to hospitalization and overdrugging, to psychiatric drug addiction, to counseling, and finally to denouncing psychology entirely and devouring the Bible. God is now healing her. What decades of psychology could not do, faith and reliance upon God has done in just one month. Read her incredible story.
http://www.psychologydebunked.com/email0504_letters.htm
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