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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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....
Interacting with "Hold Me Tight" by Dr. Sue Johnson - Ch. 2
Decreasing affection and emotional responsiveness, rather than conflict itself, tend toward a failing marriage....
As You Love Yourself
The call to love God and neighbor are keys to success in biblical counseling....
Interacting with "Hold Me Tight" by Dr. Sue Johnson - Ch. 1
A biblical counselor's interaction with Chapter One of Sue Johnson's book, "Hold Me Tight."...
Anxious? Stay Your Mind on Him!
The Scripture calls us to stay our mind on God in the face of every fear....
Interacting with "Hold Me Tight" by Dr. Sue Johnson - Introduction
Part one of a multi-part series that focuses on the book "Hold Me Tight" by Dr. Sue Johnson....
Christian: Remember Your Baptism
Remembering our baptism in the face of troubled emotions and circumstances....
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...
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2018 was our best year yet. Help us make 2019 even better for the spiritual and emotionally hurting across Tampa Bay....
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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