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A.R.E. You Serious About Your Marriage?

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Biblically grounded attachment bonds in marriage are helped by increasing accessibility, responsiveness, and engagement between husband and wife....

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But What About My Works?

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The Belgic Confession of Faith Article XXIV comforts us by offering a helpful explanation of the relationship between faith and good works....

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Trauma Has Entered the Chat

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Trauma is a reality for many, but has likely been diminished by overuse of the word in pop culture....

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Hope and the Free Pardon of the Cross

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A Christian's lack of hope will not be overcome by the law's terror, but the free pardon of the cross....

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Fighting for God's Glory

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In moments of conflict, married couples must take the time to understand why they're fighting, and compare those reasons with Scripture....

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Christian: Remember Your Baptism

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Remembering our baptism in the face of troubled emotions and circumstances....

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The New Reformation Catechism on Human Sexuality

A new catechism on human sexuality promises answers to worldview-shaping questions on sex and sexuality....

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Getting Your Counseling Right

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Successful biblical counseling depends partly on rightly understanding what it is and is not intended to accomplish....

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(Re)Build Your Marital Trust Fund

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Four biblical keys to building and maintaining trust in marriage....

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The Opposite of Addiction

Johann Hari's 2015 TEDTalk fuels discussion on addiction, addictions counseling, and what addicts need most....

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Liturgy and the Disquieted Soul

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Lord's Day liturgical practice can have a profound effect upon those struggling with problematic emotions...

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Why Can't We Be Friends?

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Friendship in marriage has been marred by sin, but can be restored by faith in Jesus Christ....

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On Adoption and Signs of Attaching Love

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Children who come from hard places need continual and sustained signs of their security and place in a world that threatened to leave them as orphans....

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What is Hope and Where Do We Find It?

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Talking points to remember and meditate on when the trials of life come....

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As You Love Yourself

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The call to love God and neighbor are keys to success in biblical counseling....

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Anxious? Stay Your Mind on Him!

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The Scripture calls us to stay our mind on God in the face of every fear....

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Dr. Joel Paris on the State of Psychiatry

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Dr. Joel Paris writes on the state of psychiatry and psychiatric research....

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Free to Struggle

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Our responses to life's trials and tribulations may seem to come automatic, but we should not accept them automatically....

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Taking Every Thought Captive

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When facing troubling circumstances and emotions, we must preach the gospel to ourselves....

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When You Don't Know What to Do

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When we're stuck in a place of indecision, there yet remains a way forward while we wait on God for clarity of thought....

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Enneagram: A Stairway of Sand

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The enneagram is growing in popularity, but is it a biblical approach to soul care that Christians should embrace?...

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Interacting with Our Dynamic Heart in Counseling (Part 1)

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This is the first in a series of posts interacting with Dr. Jeremy Pierre's book "The Dynamic Heart in Daily Life."...

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Shut Up in the Aftermath of Sexual Abuse

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One common experience for sexual abuse survivors is the apparent inability to put words to their pain....

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Before You Call a Biblical Counselor

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There are questions every potential counselee should ask of themselves before attempting to engage the counseling process....

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Is Your Counselor Biblical or Biblicist?

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Counselees must take the time to understand their counselor's philosophy of care before counseling begins....

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Soul Care with Spurgeon: Guilt, Shame, and Redemption in Christ (Part 4)

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Charles Spurgeon taught his people that their assurance of salvation was rooted not in their good deeds, but in the power of the atoning work of Christ on the cross....

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Soul Care with Spurgeon: Guilt, Shame, and Redemption in Christ (Part 2)

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Charles Spurgeon encourages us to measure our redemption against the backdrop of the severity of God's justice.vvv...

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Soul Care with Spurgeon: Guilt, Shame, and Redemption in Christ (Part 3)

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On the cross, and throughout his life, Jesus overcame death and paid the price for our sin that we might live forever with him in eternity....

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Soul Care with Spurgeon: Guilt, Shame, and Redemption in Christ (Part 1)

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Our hearts are prone to preach a false gospel of unending guilt and shame in the face of our sin, but Christ offers a better and eternal reward of mercy, grace, and forgiveness....

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Five Distinctive Qualities of Biblical Counseling

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What makes biblical counseling unique among other counseling models?...

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On Conflict and Commitments

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A survey of prior commitments at the point of conflict and counseling may reveal attitudes of the heart that are at odds with Scripture, and detrimental to progress and healing....

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Hope for Change and Our Union with Christ

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Our hope for biblical change is inextricably connected to our union with Christ....

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Assurance and Our Power to Stand

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17th Century Puritan, Stephen Charnock, writes concerning our assurance of salvation, a common conflict in biblical counseling....

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Anger: Who's Your Master?

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Ed Welch reminds us of the powerlessness of human anger....

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Christian: Know Thy Misery

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Christians must know the misery of their sin in order to properly know the gift of God's grace....

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David Murray on Depression and the Body/Soul Connection

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David Murray writes about depression and the body/soul connection....

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