Counseling He Bore our Sicknesses 29 Jul 201429 Jul 2014 The vandalizing of shalom has brought with it the ravaging of our bodies. We experience in our bodies the effects of the curse of sin on our world. Sickness is…
Counseling Living with Fear and Following Jesus 15 Jul 2014 Fear can be absolutely crippling. Dan Wickert tells the story of a counselee he had years ago who was so afraid of contracting AIDS that she couldn't even sit on…
Counseling Case-Specific Counseling 3 Jul 2014 Counselors can do significant damage to those they seek to help by treating the counseling process like it’s a formula. “Take two verses and call me in the morning.” Biblical…
Counseling Living In A World That God Did Not Create 26 Jun 201426 Jun 2014 You are not God. If that seems like basic Christianity 101, I’d agree, and yet I find myself reiterating that exact truth often. Both in counseling myself and helping others…
Counseling… God Can Be Trusted With Death 12 Jun 2014 It’s hard to describe how I felt when I finally got news that my dad had died. At the moment my emotions all felt so tangible, flooding over me with…
Counseling Assurance and Ecclesiology 3 Jun 2014 The local church is a “factory of assurance” (Strachan and Sweeney, True Christianity. 98). That is to say, the local assembly of believers and particularly our place in that assembly…
Counseling Your Faith is Small, But God Can Still Act 27 May 2014 Some Christians think more about the size of their faith than the object of their faith. We speak of a "faith that can move mountains." We wonder aloud about the…
Books… A Review of “Counseling the Hard Cases” eds. by Stuart Scott and Heath Lambert 19 May 2014 To say that the Scriptures are sufficient for "all life and faith" is to say quite a lot. Particularly, it is to say that the Bible can offer hope and…
Church… Your Problems Belong To Your Church 1 May 2014 Struggling alone is disastrous to your soul. Those who struggle alone have no support structures, no encouragement, no one to help carry the load. Isolation is particularly disastrous when you…
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…
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