Counseling Destructive Themes of the Heart: Evil 11 Nov 2015 Every human heart is bent towards sin. The Bible tells us that we are all sinners (Rom. 3:23), and we all sin against God and against others. At one level…
Counseling Destructive Themes of the Heart: Laziness 4 Nov 2015 How can laziness be destructive? It's so passive, so inactive. Too disinterested to really be vicious. The book of Proverbs, however, says otherwise. It speaks of a lazy person as…
Counseling Destructive Themes of the Heart: Selfishness 28 Oct 2015 At one level we might speak of many sins as selfishness. Certainly anger and envy fall under that heading. Yet, there is something about selfishness that warrants examining this theme…
Counseling Destructive Themes of the Heart: Envy 21 Oct 2015 I am convinced we’ve misunderstood the poison that is envy. We tend to think of envy simply as a desire to have what we do not already possess. I want…
Anger… Destructive Themes of the Heart: Anger 14 Oct 201519 Oct 2016 Anger can come in many forms, but all anger will destroy relationships. As a destructive theme in our hearts anger targets people, dominates a person’s thoughts, and fuels sinful…
Counseling Destructive Themes of the Heart: Pride 7 Oct 2015 Destructive relationships are not merely failures of behavior and response. Destructive relationships arise from sinful themes in our hearts. "Destructive behavior," says Leslie Vernick, "is merely the outward fruit of a…
Counseling On True Repentance 10 Sep 2015 "I am sorry" can be one of the easiest things to say and one of the hardest things to demonstrate. It can also be exceedingly hard for others to believe.…
Counseling Crisis Counseling Initiative: Continued Growth 5 Aug 2015 The goal of formal Biblical counseling is, in part, to help people get to a place where they no longer need formal Biblical counseling. That is to say, our desire…
Counseling Crisis Care Initiative: Support Network 15 Apr 2015 “Change is a community project,” says Tim Lane and Paul Tripp (How People Change). This means, in developing a crisis care plan for our church we are not simply interested…
Counseling Crisis Care Initiative: A Church of Counselors 8 Apr 2015 If it’s somewhat of a cliché to call the church a “hospital for sinners,” it is still a fitting description. The church after all, is the place where broken people…
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