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This week’s mini-series on the Grace and Truth blog addresses counseling individuals or parents of those struggling with gender dysphoria. In this first article, Ellen Mary Dykas encourages counselors to learn their counselee’s story of suffering to understand the development of their gender-related conclusions. In other contributions to the series, Keith Evans discusses counseling parents of transitioning children, and Brad Hambrick shares five objectives for parents to consider when having conversations with their children about sexuality and gender. Continue Reading →
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Leaders, how would you answer the question, “How can I get equipped for ministry? How can I become a wise servant of Christ?” Generally, people mention education, practical experience, studying God’s Word, and serving alongside ministry-mature women and men. However, sometimes God surprises us with creative, unexpected “detours” (or so we assume), which turn out to be His classrooms of instruction! Continue Reading →
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This week’s mini-series on the Grace and Truth Blog explores potential failures in biblical counseling. In this first article, Ellen Dykas shares three blind spots to which biblical counselors can fall prey. In other contributions to the series, Shannon McCoy considers the danger of prayerlessness in biblical counseling, and Gary Hallquist offers six truths for mind renewal when feeling discouraged by a lack of growth in our counselees. Continue Reading →
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This week’s mini-series on the BCC Grace and Truth blog addresses the topic of LGBTQ+ issues. In this first article, Ellen Dykas discusses Christians who affirm LGBTQ+ sexual behaviors and asserts that the believer has no area of “private real-estate” in their lives. Rather, every part of who we are needs to come under the loving lordship of Jesus. In other contributions to the series, Jim Weidenaar shares how his experience of feeling helpless when meeting with parents of children identifying as LGBTQ+ is the beginning of his helping them, and Andy Farmer shares how 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 can provide profound stability for anyone seeking to have an enduring presence with a person who demands affirmation in their homosexual lifestyle as an expression of love. Continue Reading →
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