Counseling Living the Christian Life Apart from the Gospel 24 Apr 201424 Apr 2014 His rain-soaked clothes served as a perfect picture for his life. Andre (not his real name) was a believer who was living with unbelievable guilt and frustration. The guilt and…
Counseling Biblical Counseling and Imagination 9 Apr 2014 Anxiety makes the world around us shrink. We can see so few things except what is causing us, at that moment, to be anxious. I have often thought that what…
Counseling Biblical Counseling Bibliography 6 Mar 2014 This is a select bibliography for Biblical Counseling. Students in my Biblical Counseling Training courses should find all the resources we have discussed in class as well as an ever-expanding…
Counseling Uncomfortable Grace: Experiencing God in Pain 21 Jan 2014 There’s something about walking through the valley of the shadow of death that allows us to experience God in new ways. It’s not that we like the valley. It’s dark,…
Counseling Uncomfortable Grace: Sometimes It Hurts 14 Jan 2014 I have painted my theology onto my body. There are two core beliefs which I need to be reminded of every moment of every day. On one arm I have…
Counseling My Struggle Does Not Define Me 8 Jan 2014 “I am not defined by what happened to me!” It was said just like that, and it was a major breakthrough for this particular man. We had been meeting for…
Counseling… Recovery @ Cornerstone: Our Ministry Distinctives 20 Nov 201320 Nov 2013 I never had any plans to work with men and women struggling with addictions. I never had any problems with drugs or alcohol, and when I first started in ministry…
Books… A Review of “Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling” by James MacDonald, Bob Kellemen, and Steve Viars 14 Oct 2013 I don’t have time for personal politics. The truth is they shouldn’t even exist within Christian organizations, but they sadly do. In my own world there are too many people…
Counseling In Any Affliction 1 Oct 2013 I was never a drug user. I've done plenty of dumb things over the course of my life, and indulged in plenty of sin, but drugs were simply never part…
Counseling The Truth Behind “I Can’t Forgive Myself” 27 Jun 2013 The mercy of God is really impossible to understand. Trying to contemplate how it is that a God of justice and perfection could forgive sinners is well beyond our reasoning…