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…
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…
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