Author: Dave Deuel

The Biblical Roots of Our Counseling: The Lord of the Story

What’s your story? Each of our stories is an account of our life experience during our earthly sojourn. But Scripture focuses on the Lord of the story, who offers redemption and healing from the effects of sin. Soul care is our intervention into another’s experience in the Lord’s story. It is our response to His mercy by first listening, then ministering. Continue Reading →

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Shouldn’t Disability Care Givers Do Soul Care? Part 2: The Soul Care Mission

Part 1 of this series, “An Unmet Global Need,” revealed that an increasing number of people with disabilities are unable to go to church. One in six people is in danger of being cut off from Christian fellowship or never experiencing it. This group is the size of the continent of Africa! How can the church build a bridge from its front doors to unchurched people with disabilities? Continue Reading →

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Shouldn’t Disability Care Givers Do Soul Care? Part 1: An Unmet Global Need

Many disability care professionals view their work as a personal mission, their life’s vocation. They enter disability care-related fields to help people as their service for Christ. Serving others is an expression of their worship. What is more, their labor is deeply personal. Disability caregivers are called to one person at a time. Continue Reading →

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Book Review of What Is Saving Faith: Reflections on Receiving Christ as a Treasure by John Piper

John Piper, committed to the priority of the gospel, says, “There are a thousand needs in the world, and none of them compares to the global need for the gospel.” People who realize their own desperate need feel like responding. That felt and real need is the focus of Piper’s newest book, What Is Saving Faith. Continue Reading →

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