Is Your Counselor Biblical or Biblicist?
Counselees must take the time to understand their counselor's philosophy of care before counseling begins....
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Fighting for God's Glory
In moments of conflict, married couples must take the time to understand why they're fighting, and compare those reasons with Scripture....
Christian: Remember Your Baptism
Remembering our baptism in the face of troubled emotions and circumstances....
The New Reformation Catechism on Human Sexuality
A new catechism on human sexuality promises answers to worldview-shaping questions on sex and sexuality....
Getting Your Counseling Right
Successful biblical counseling depends partly on rightly understanding what it is and is not intended to accomplish....
(Re)Build Your Marital Trust Fund
Four biblical keys to building and maintaining trust in marriage....
The Opposite of Addiction
Johann Hari's 2015 TEDTalk fuels discussion on addiction, addictions counseling, and what addicts need most....
Liturgy and the Disquieted Soul
Lord's Day liturgical practice can have a profound effect upon those struggling with problematic emotions...
Why Can't We Be Friends?
Friendship in marriage has been marred by sin, but can be restored by faith in Jesus Christ....
On Adoption and Signs of Attaching Love
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....
What is Hope and Where Do We Find It?
Talking points to remember and meditate on when the trials of life come....
Soul Care with Spurgeon: Guilt, Shame, and Redemption in Christ (Part 4)
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....
Keep ReadingSoul Care with Spurgeon: Guilt, Shame, and Redemption in Christ (Part 3)
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....
Keep ReadingSoul Care with Spurgeon: Guilt, Shame, and Redemption in Christ (Part 2)
Charles Spurgeon encourages us to measure our redemption against the backdrop of the severity of God's justice.vvv...
Keep ReadingSoul Care with Spurgeon: Guilt, Shame, and Redemption in Christ (Part 1)
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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On Conflict and Commitments
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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Assurance and Our Power to Stand
17th Century Puritan, Stephen Charnock, writes concerning our assurance of salvation, a common conflict in biblical counseling....
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