Abundant Life Christian Counseling Services | Christian Counseling - Counseling Training

Dr. Rickey A. Nation, Ph.D.
and wife, Tammy

EDUCATION
Ordained Minister
Ph.D. Christian Psychology
NCCA, Christian Counselor
NCCA, Pastoral Counselor
NCCA, Temperament Counselor
NCCA, Board Certified Sexual Therapy

Board Certified Clinical Supervisor through the National Board of Christian Clinical Therapists

Dr. Nation has extensive training
through Bethany Divinity College and Seminary in the following:
Addictiveness
Biblical Marriage & Family Counseling
Biblical Reality Counseling
Biblical Depression Counseling
Biblical Crisis Counseling

Dr. Nation received training in Biblical Counseling as part of his seminary education and is licensed by the Church
to the Gospel Ministry. He has been counseling families and individuals
since 1991.

EXPERIENCE
Dr. Nation worked in restaurant management, sales and marketing for a total of 7 years. He also began three different youth ministries in several schools. This experience enabled him to begin Abundant Life Christian Counseling Services and write the unique course, How To Begin A Counseling Ministry
and Take It Higher.

ADVISOR FOR COUNSELING DEPT.
Bethany Divinity College and Seminary

CERTIFIED INSTRUCTOR
Satasota Academy Christian Counseling

National Board of Christian Clinical Therspists (Supervisor)

APS Certified

AFFILIATIONS / MEMBERSHIPS
NCCA, Professional Clinical Member
NCCA, License # NA72655
2011 Temperament Award Recepient
Nominated Outstanding Young American
Nominated Who's Who In Business
Nominated Biltmore's Who's Who 2010
Member, Roane County
Chamber of Commerce since 2006

What is Suicide?

The life of every living thing is in God's hand (Job 12:10). He has numbered our days (Job 14:5) and set a limit beyond which we cannot go (Ps. 139:16). But can we determine a limit sooner than He planned? Is suicide permissible? Job's wife counseled her husband to curse God and thereby invite His judgment, but Job rejected that suggestion as foolish (Job2:9-10). Job wanted to die (Job 6:8-10; 7:15-16) but did not assume that he had the right to take his own life. Our lives are in God's hand, and our times are in His hand (Ps. 31:15). There is no incident in the Bible of a godly person committing suicide. Saul had rebelled against God (1 Sam. 31:3-5); Ahithophel had turned against the king (2 Sam. 17:23); Zimri was a rebel and a conspirator (1 Kings 16:8-20); and Judas betrayed the Lord (Matt. 27:4-5). Samson's death (Judg. 16:23ff.) appears to be more martyrdom than suicide. The sixth commandment forbids murder (Exod. 20:13). Man is made in the image of God, and we have no right to attack that image, even if we are suffering greatly. In the Bible, men like Moses, Elijah, and Jonah became discouraged and wanted to die, but they did not attempt to take their own lives. "To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice," wrote Aristotle, "and while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill." Ponder 2 Timothy 4:6-8.

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