Author: Jason Hsieh

The Ugly Box and the Glorious God

The Ugly Box and the Glorious God

Posted by | Nov 14, 2022 | |

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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Been in Counseling a Long Time? How to Remember Your Sessions

Been in Counseling a Long Time? How to Remember Your Sessions

Posted by | Jul 1, 2022 | |

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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Stewarding Difficulties of the Past

Stewarding Difficulties of the Past

Posted by | Nov 15, 2021 | |

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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Three Questions for Older Singles and their Churches

Three Questions for Older Singles and their Churches

Posted by | Jun 25, 2021 | |

How can older singles stay in the fight and remain hungry to live Christ-honoring lives? One way is by asking questions. The active thinking, responding, and communicating with self, God, and others that comes with asking questions is crucial to countering weariness. But if you’re an older single, you shouldn’t have to do this question-asking alone. Your church should support you by asking questions to spur dialogue and then responding accordingly. This article poses three questions for older singles and three questions for their churches, with the goal of furthering discussion with others and with the Lord. Continue Reading →

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