Counseling Jesus’ Rebuke of Spiritual Abusers (Part 2) 16 Dec 2020 Abusive people are all about rules. There are guidelines to be followed and expectations to be met. Of course those guidelines and expectations change based on mood and the rules…
Counseling Jesus’ Rebuke of Spiritual Abusers 10 Dec 2020 Spiritual abuse is one of the most damaging forms of oppression. All abuse is, of course, horrific, but spiritual abuse causes a victim to feel that their oppression is coming…
Counseling On God’s Natural and Strange Work 20 Jul 2020 I have recently finished reading Dane Ortlund's phenomenal book Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers. The book is a beautiful depiction of the compassion, mercy,…
Counseling What NOT To Do When You Discover Abuse 1 Jul 2020 Issues of domestic violence are far more common in the church then many realize. On the one hand we don't want to think that such things are happening among our…
Anxiety… The Bible’s Big Picture on Anxiety 29 Apr 2020 The brokenness of our world and the brokenness of our own souls means that all men are, at one and the same time, both sufferers and sinners. This plays out…
Counseling What Forgiveness Is (Part 3) 27 Jun 2019 If forgiveness is contingent upon the ability to forget past hurts then who can forgive? Memories of painful past offenses are often seared into our mind. The adage "forgive and…
Counseling What Forgiveness Is (Part 2) 20 Jun 2019 "If he repents..." Those three words make a huge difference to our understanding of the horizontal dimension of forgiveness. The first word makes it a conditional clause. The second word…
Counseling What Forgiveness Is 13 Jun 2019 The church often has a shallow understanding of forgiveness. In my previous post in this mini-series, I explored some common myths about forgiveness, and exposed what forgiveness is NOT. Yet,…
Counseling What Forgiveness Isn’t 4 Jun 2019 Forgiveness is such a difficult concept to grasp and to practice. On the one hand, as selfish people, we tend to believe our rights trump all others, and when offended…
Anger… 7 Tests of Righteous Anger (Part 2): Right Trigger 22 May 2019 One of the most important test for evaluating our anger is to ask the question: am I angry about the right things? We must assess all sorts of things about…
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