Have you ever noticed that obeying Scripture doesn’t just happen? We often need to be deliberate rather than passive to put on our new selves or put off our old self. This article highlights the importance of intentionality in our sanctification. Continue Reading →
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This week’s mini-series on the Grace and Truth Blog offers three tools to add to your counseling toolbox. In this first article, Jason Hsieh explains three exercises for training counselees to look for reminders of God’s purposes and character. In other contributions to the series, Howard Eyrich provides an example of how New Testament narratives can be used to offer hope, and Betty-Anne Van Rees offers a scale for emotional well-being and shares how she uses it with her counselees. Continue Reading →
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If you’ve been getting counseling for a long time, it can be easy to forget what you’ve covered. This article provides a series of questions to help you summarize what you’ve discussed with your counselor so that you don’t waste all your hard work. You’ll find it’s organized to track with three overarching objectives in counseling, with each section containing three questions. Continue Reading →
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Last year, I enjoyed reading Bob Kellemen’s Consider Your Counsel: Addressing Ten Mistakes in Our Biblical Counseling. Reading Kellemen’s book prompted me to ask: “What mistakes have I made as a counselor, and just as important, what am I doing to correct them?” Continue Reading →
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What is it about difficulties in our past that make them hard to talk about? Maybe it’s because those difficulties feel like such a huge part of our identities, and we have shame or guilt attached to them. Or perhaps it’s because we don’t know anyone in our church who models how to talk about the past in a helpful way. After all, when’s the last time your church taught about dealing with the past? Yet everyone at church has a past. And if we’re to steward and take dominion over whatever God gives us (meaning we use what we’re given for His glory and our growth in Christ), then we need to learn how to process and respond well to difficulties in our past. Continue Reading →
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