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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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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To no one’s surprise, Tom Brady won another Super Bowl last month, breaking his own record for most championships by a quarterback. How does he keep doing it? Besides great teammates and meticulous attention to his diet and training, Brady is known to watch plenty of game film. He studies his opponents to understand the obstacles to his goals and reviews what he needs to do better. Men, if Tom Brady willingly critiques himself, then we should be ready to do the same for something far more important than winning a football game, and that’s leading our households well. This article suggests three ways to assess how we lead our families. Continue Reading →
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Have you ever noticed how seemingly civil people who believe the same gospel and normally have good unity somehow become fire-breathing dragons when talking about politics? Whether it’s about the upcoming presidential election, COVID-19, or race-relations in our country, there’s a good chance politics have come up quite a bit in your ministry recently. It’s not that it’s wrong to be passionate about politics, but we can hold so tightly to our views that we damage our testimonies and harm our relationships in the church. Continue Reading →
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