Scripture-health for SPIRIT SOUL BODY

About the Author

I believe God has qualified me to write to this audience on this subject. I am a Christian psychiatrist-physician, well-married to a wonderful wife Betty for 52 years, and father of two adopted children. We all reside in West Michigan near the 'Big Lake' (Lake Michigan). We are active members of an evangelical church, Chapel Pointe of Hudsonville, MI.

I am also a survivor of childhood PTSD traumas, including some sexual abuse. God has granted me Christian counseling, prayers, and wonderful healing and growth thru it all. Those events, and assists, although painful, have enabled me to accomplish 42 years of successfully helping many patients as a ‘healing wounded healer’. These have included many teens, parents, and young adults. All this professional work has been done in the strength of the Lord Christ Jesus alone.

I received my medical training at the University of Michigan and my psychiatry and neurology training at the Lafayette Clinic/Wayne State University in Detroit. I have been Certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 1979, and I have practiced in several settings. These include Pine Rest Christian Hospital/Mental Health Services, Hope Network of West Michigan, Psychology Associates of Grand Rapids, and the Veterans Administration in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

I have also studied some conservative Christian theology at the Grand Rapids Baptist College/Seminary (now Cornerstone University). I have learned as well from the works of Dr.’s Larry Crabb, Frank Minirth, Gary Chapman, Henry Cloud and John Townsend, among others. My theological consultations for my work have come largely from Barackman’s Practical Christian Theology (2001), and Rev. James Jeffery of our Chapel Pointe Church.

I have been challenged by the sexual beliefs, practices and life struggles of our youth, including many in our churches. Now I have felt called to this writing to protect them and bring reality-truth, spiritual growth, healing and blessings into their Christian lives.