Counseling 7 Tests of Righteous Anger (Part 1) 14 May 2019 Anger, like all emotions, can be good or bad depending on what we are responding to and how we are expressing it. Christians have sometimes had a view of the…
Counseling Don’t Settle For Simple Explanations 30 Apr 2019 In order to fix my problem it is usually very important to know what caused it. So, if my car is making a funny noise I want to find the…
Counseling Using Anchors in Battling Anxiety 9 Apr 20199 Apr 2019 Anxiety is often like a snowball rolling down a mountain. It starts out as one small thought, but as it rolls it picks up more snow and rather quickly becomes…
Counseling When Good Things Become Bad: Sleep 28 Mar 2019 Is it possible to get too much sleep? At this stage in life, with all its busyness and stress, my body tells me that this is a ludicrous question. Yet,…
Counseling When Good Things Become Bad: Technology 20 Mar 2019 A number of years ago, after leaving an unhealthy church situation, I was invited to serve on staff at a larger church that, despite not really needing another pastor, wanted…
Counseling… Common Motives Behind Self-Harm 26 Feb 201926 Feb 2019 Self-harm has a logic all its own. What may seem strange to those outside the struggle, makes sense to those who indulge in the habit. Self-harm does something for those…
Counseling… Self-Harm and Suicide 20 Feb 201926 Feb 2019 Similarities should not lead us to conclude equivalence. There are ways in which some forms of self-harm (particularly cutting) can resemble attempted suicide. Yet, the two behaviors are quite distinct…
Counseling The Danger of Secret Temptations 16 Jan 2019 It's embarrassing just how corrupt and wicked our own hearts are (Jer. 17:9). It's bad enough that we sin and are forced to address our failures with those we love…
Counseling What is Keeping You From Being Patient? 11 Jan 2019 "And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all." (1 Thessalonians 5:14) We use this passage often in counseling training.…
Counseling On Cultivating an Appetite for Sin 25 Oct 2018 Certain sins have an acquired taste. Most people don't usually (never?) jump from the banal sins of our ever day life to the extreme manifestations those same desires. Most of…
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