Tag: Community Bible Church

• Re-nough

  As I floated in the pool, tanning under the sweltering 107-degree-cloudless-Texas-summer-sun, I splashed water on my baking legs, and solemnly thought, “I’m boooreeed.” Then, as if chiding me, a voice in the back of my head reminded me of the years I spent praying for such a day. “What I wouldn’t give for a hum-drum…

  Renee Albracht

  August 5, 2023

  mental health

  Barbie, Community Bible Church, enough, God’s love, mental health, stay

• Social Anxiety, Friends, and Jesus

  I recently read a post somewhere on Instagram about how those who have experienced trauma prefer isolation. Being alone feels safer. We have control of our own surroundings and trust ourselves. Isolation is not necessarily a bad thing. Ask any introvert. However, complete avoidance of other people and places is unhealthy. I thought about this…

  Renee Albracht

  July 16, 2023

  mental health

  Community Bible Church, friendship, Jesus, mental health, social anxiety

• #ChurchHurt

  I have been hurt by the church . . . and I am a pastor and chaplain. Religious trauma is now a clinical diagnosis. If it had not been for a trip back to Nashville this past summer, attending a conference with 400 other lonely and hurting pastors, reconnecting and healing with/by my home church,…

  Renee Albracht

  September 18, 2022

  mental health, Spirit

  Church Hurt, Community Bible Church, mental health, Nashville First Church of the Nazarene, Nazarene