06/12/2026
Join us tonight!!! Don't forget to bring your dinner.
Many Christians understand salvation primarily as the forgiveness of sin and the promise of heaven. Yet throughout the Gospels, Jesus speaks repeatedly about restoration, healing, freedom, reconciliation, and abundant life. What if emotional healing and spiritual formation were never meant to be separated?
In this discussion-based presentation, we will explore how the Kingdom of God speaks not only to our beliefs, but to our thoughts, emotions, relationships, bodies, and souls. Drawing from Scripture, clinical experience, the Soul Change Model, and the work of thinkers such as N. T. Wright, Dallas Willard, C. S. Lewis, Curt Thompson, Aundi Kolber, and my (Ashley Brooks’) Kingdom-minded counseling approach, we will consider how emotional wounds, shame, disconnection, and fragmentation affect spiritual life—and how Christ’s work of redemption reaches into every part of our humanity.
Together, we will discuss why our thoughts, emotions, body, and soul were designed to work together, the risks of ignoring parts of ourselves in the name of spirituality, and what it might mean to become whole persons who are increasingly able to love God, love others, and live faithfully within the Kingdom of God.
This is not a counseling lecture, but a conversation about what it means to become more fully human in the presence of God.
So, come spend the evening with us at our next Stout Faith. Invite a friend as we explore a holistic approach to what it looks like when both spiritual health and mental health are coupled together.