Sermon Series breakdown documents

Glenbrook Sermon Series

Resources (for the benefit of Growth Group Leaders and Preachers):

• The Mental Health and Pastoral Care Institute – resources, factsheets, recordings and upcoming events centred around a Christian understanding of pastoral care and mental health. A good introduction.
• Down Not Out by Chris Cipollone – a mix of lived experience and theological insight. A good introduction.
• Mental Health and Your Church A Handbook for Biblical Care by Helen Thorne and Dr Steve Midgley - sections introducing different types of mental ill health and practical steps for caring well for each other.
• Finding Lost Words: The Churches Right to Lament edited by Geoff Harper and Kit Barker – a more technical series of essays on Lament in the Psalms.
• Wayfarers: A Christian Approach to Mental Health Care by Warren Kinghorn– a more technical read on a Christian approach to mental health care including history, theology, philosophy and psychiatry.
• Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament by Mark Vroegop - a guide to expressing sorrow and pain to God through lament, finding solace and trust in His grace during life’s darkest moments. It looks at lament in general and then specifically at some of the lament Psalms as well as Lamentations.
• The Anxious Generation – How the great rewiring of childhood is causing and Epidemic of mental illness by Jonathan Haidt – this would be a helpful and revealing read for Parents of kids and youth and our LMAP Youth Leaders.

Bible Studies (for the benefit of Growth Group Leaders):

• Julie Haddon & Olivia Bush: Distress & Hope (5 Studies - with Leaders Notes and Participant Booklets) available on Church Central Online

Blaxland and Mt Riv Sermon Series

Devotionals or Bible Study (for the benefit of Growth Group Leaders):

• Nick Lindeback: The Goodness of Suffering (5 Studies - with Leaders Notes and Participant Booklets) available on Church Central Online.

Commentary/Book suggestions (for the benefit of Growth Group Leaders and Preachers):

• The Message of Romans by John Stott. BST, Leicester: IVP, 1994, ch 11. Also John Stott in The Cross of Christ (esp. Ch 13) gives a helpful treatment on cross shaped endurance.
• Romans by F.F. Bruce. Tyndale, Grand Rapids: Eerdmanns, 1985 (revised), pp. 148-171.
• The Epistle to the Romans by Douglas J. Moo. NICNT, Grand Rapids: Eerdmanns, 1996, pp 467-547.
• The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. London: SCM Press, 1937, translated 1948, 59, Ann Ed 2015.