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…
Books… A Review of “Redemption” by Mike Wilkerson 10 Jun 201310 Jun 2013 Serving as a pastor of a church composed largely of recovering addicts and alcoholics introduced me to a world of suffering that I had only known about in theory. When…
Counseling… The Power of the Gospel for Real Change: Reflections on the Process of Sanctification from Colossians 2:20-3:5 (Part 3) 17 May 201318 May 2013 Are you embarrassed by the gospel? Paul wasn't. He understood that the gospel was the only real hope any man had. He wrote to the Romans saying, "For I am…
Counseling… The Power of the Gospel for Real Change: Reflections on the Process of Sanctification from Colossians 2:20-3:5 (Part 2) 9 May 201310 May 2013 Legalism is a soul-deadening misrepresentation of Christianity! My wife and I lived for years in a community that was plagued by dysfunctional Christianity, where the perception of most preachers and…
Counseling… The Power of the Gospel for Real Change: Reflections on the Process of Sanctification from Colossians 2:20-3:5 (Part 1) 2 May 20133 May 2013 How do people change? There are a myriad of ideas about what change looks like, and lots of proposed solutions are offered to what ails us. But as a Christian…
Counseling… The Value of A Tired Soul 3 Dec 20124 Dec 2012 I have tired clinging to my bones. There's no book review today because I spent the weekend in Pennsylvania, helping to bury my grandfather and remember him with my family. It was…
1 Peter… Elect Exiles?: The Role of Suffering in 1 Peter 1 (Part 1) 24 Oct 201225 Oct 2012 What we were about to do was not exactly legal. It was late at night and we were a small group, but nonetheless we had to huddle quietly on the…
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