Drumroll Please… Happy World Bipolar Day!! The results for the 3rd Annual BipolarBrave Mental Health & Faith Awards for 2024 are in. The contenders were strong in their respective categories: blog, influencer, organization, and broadcast. For nominees to qualify, they needed to meet the guidelines as follows: Have been around for at least 6 months Be actively working to educate, enlighten, and transform the way society and the church perceive and treat those with mental illness (mental health conditions and diagnoses as defined by: Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, Schizo-affective Disorde ..read more

In honor of World Bipolar Day – March 30th – I’m hosting the annual BipolarBrave Awards again for 2024. The awards are to honor those influencers, blogs, organizations, and broadcasts that have made a difference in the combined arenas of the CHURCH and SOCIETY. With the growing need to address mental illness and Christian faith in a combined context, I vet the nominees based on the following criteria to be considered: Have been around for at least 6 months Be actively working to educate, enlighten, and transform the way society and the church perceive and treat those with mental illness (ment ..read more

Bipolar is Bold This March 30th is World Bipolar Day. To honor those on the frontlines of social media and active in the world of faith and mental health, I host the BipolarBrave Awards every year. Bipolar is Brave Who has made a difference for you in your life, because of their ability to relate to the church and mental illness? Who has brought major impact, influence, and change to the conversation around faith in Christ and mental health awareness? Nominate your BipolarBrave candidate you feel has met the following criteria for their chance to win the Mental Health & Faith BipolarBrave ..read more

For the previous days’ devotionals, see this link. Catching On We can challenge the status quo or norms of society through civil man-made attempts to change our culture, and that is good. We can also go behind the scenes and pull some aces from up our sleeves, letting God’s Spirit handle power-play spiritual dynamics. When we realize the weight of glory in God’s single act of His Son’s divine resurrection from the dead, we are awakened to the sheer volume of charges and explosive possibilities of changed lives. God’s pure, unadulterated love does that. By plugging into the source of power and ..read more

For Day 1’s content, follow this link.  This is a devotional series on encouraging love and light in your daily walk with God. This is day two’s devotional on fanning the flame of your faith to a greater fire. Fan the Flame God’s power manifests through fuel (His Word) and oxygen flow (His Spirit) to fan into flame the gifts He has given us. When we yield our life, putting aside all our ambitions to incline our hearts to what the Father is doing, we will see the fire of our love for Him expand. It’s not meant to stay tucked away as dying embers.  The fire in our hearts for our fascin ..read more

For Day 1’s devotional, follow this link. For Day 2’s devotional, follow this link.  This is a devotional series on encouraging love and light in your daily walk with God. This is day three’s devotional on the nature of love being like a fire. Love is a Fire Fire burns, generating heat and producing smoke with whatever it comes in contact with. This chemical reaction can be symbolic of the reaction love makes with what it contacts as well. Love, like a flame, burns away many of the temporary elements. Each elemental interaction produces a reaction that sends a clear message to those obse ..read more

For Day 1’s content, follow this link.  This is a devotional series on encouraging love and light in your daily walk with God. This is day two’s devotional on fanning the flame of your faith to a greater fire. Fan the Flame God’s power manifests through fuel (His Word) and oxygen flow (His Spirit) to fan into flame the gifts He has given us. When we yield our life, putting aside all our ambitions to incline our hearts to what the Father is doing, we will see the fire of our love for Him expand. It’s not meant to stay tucked away as dying embers.  The fire in our hearts for our fascin ..read more

It Starts with a Spark Damp, quenched wicks cannot light. It takes a dry thread or filament to catch the flame of a lit match. In the same way, our spirits ignite with immediate heat and light that starts from supernatural spiritual re-birth into eternity. God’s Spirit is an all-consuming fire (Hebrews 12) and we are warned not to quench that fire (1 Thessalonians 5:19). The tongues of flickering light that appeared on the day of Pentecost represented that flame of God that burns within each of His children born to new life upon their salvation in Christ. The flame gave forth heat generated ..read more

Here’s the third post in this series about Serious Mental Illness. In this post, I want to address Serious Mental Illness (SMI) in the context of first responders. For the first two posts on this subject, see those concerning Pastors and Mental Health Providers.   For First Responders, the critical takeaway from this information is to be appropriately trained in crisis intervention, and understanding how to compassionately but appropriately respond to those in a state of psychosis, suicidal ideation/depression, and/or mania.   What Serious Mental Illness Is Serious Mental Illness is ..read more

The results for the 2nd Annual BipolarBrave Mental Health & Faith Awards for 2023 are in. The contenders were strong in their respective categories: blog, influencer, organization, and new to 2023, broadcast. For nominees to qualify, they needed to aim for the guidelines set out in the nominations post. Congratulations to everyone who made it, to those who placed, and to those who won! Blog BipolarBrave Mental Health & Faith Award for Blog of 2023, in 3rd place, goes to: The DV Walking Wounded Blog   BipolarBrave Mental Health & Faith Award for Blog of 2023, in 2nd place, go ..read more