About Patrick Bailey

Patrick Bailey is a professional writer mainly in the fields of mental health, addiction, and living in recovery. He attempts to stay on top of the latest news in the addiction and the mental health world and enjoy writing about these topics to break the stigma associated with them.

Prayer: The Best Way to Keep Your Mental Health

Posted on January 15, 2019 Written by Patrick Bailey Leave a Comment

While it would be foolhardy to expect to cure mental illness or drug addiction purely through petitioning the Lord, it can be an important part of the overall treatment plan.

How to Help People with a Substance Abuse Problem through the Bible

Posted on August 8, 2018 Written by Patrick Bailey Leave a Comment

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Ending Well

From this, I conclude that the secret that will allow us to end well is to be constantly reminded of our own tendency to go off track. We need a realization of our complete dependence upon God for anything good to come from our labors.

What does the Bible primarily teach?

The very real question I have to ask myself is whether I am willing to submit to what God has revealed to me. Am I willing to acknowledge him as creator and sustainer? Am I willing to be obedient to how he has revealed I should act?

An encouragement to love

The church is to up the ante by going beyond for the members and loving those who are enemies (Matthew 5:43-44). We are to be identified by our for those both inside and outside the membership ranks.

Ungodly means to a godly end?

If one or of the leaders is using ungodly means to implement his vision, I struggle to see how the church could be healthy.

Training for the battle

Gibbon writes that the only difference between the field of training and the field of battle was the effusion of blood on the latter. The church could learn from the Romans.

I’m free from the chain gang now

The chain gang is a fitting picture to illustrate what legalistic churches do to their people. They put shackles upon them and force them into certain behaviors that will identify them with the group.

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