“Trouble, trouble—always trouble!” What’s your problem, friend? “You know—if it isn’t the car breaking down, it’s the kids needing new shoes—or something. Never seems to end—trouble is endemic!” Of course, there’s plenty of trouble—Adam brought that on us. But you don’t have to step into it all the time, everywhere. “Oh, yeah? Tell me how …
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“People. . . people . . . people . . . .” So? If not people, then what? “I don’t know—I’m just plain disgusted with people!” How come? “They keep letting me down.” Well, is that all their fault or do you bear some responsibility for choosing undependable ones? “What do you mean?” Listen to …
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Waiting for the repairman. The washer just went out—water on the floor! Too bad, but this reminds me that counselors are repairmen too. Counseling has positive results—when it’s biblical and it’s followed, of course. But fundamentally, even biblical counseling is nothing more than repair work. The counselor is a repairman, par excellence. We are quite …
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If it were up to you to determine what your pastor should do, what would it be? “Care for the people? Preach interesting sermons? Baptize, marry and bury people?” Can you think of anything else? “Not really.” How about what Paul said in Ephesians 4:12, where he outlined the principal reason for the gift of …
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There are counselors who misuse God’s Word. That isn’t to say that they intend to do so—though some, with but a mere twinge of conscience, may use a passage to say what he knows it doesn’t say. But, either way, we find Scripture being forced into contexts in which it does not belong, being used …
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