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Book Review of Someone I Know is Grieving by Edward Welch

Book Review of Someone I Know is Grieving by Edward Welch

Posted by | Jan 7, 2025 | |

Grief is an inescapable part of life this side of glory. There are rippled effects on us as human beings when we experience grief, and the comforting care of another person can be an instrumental way in which we recover from that experience. In Someone I Know is Grieving: Caring with Humility and Compassion, Ed Welch offers sage wisdom on what to do and not to do when ministering to those who are in a season of grieving. Continue Reading →

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Book Review of Someone I Know is Grieving by Edward Welch

Book Review of Someone I Know is Grieving by Edward Welch

Posted by | Jan 7, 2025 | |

Grief is an inescapable part of life this side of glory. There are rippled effects on us as human beings when we experience grief, and the comforting care of another person can be an instrumental way in which we recover from that experience. In Someone I Know is Grieving: Caring with Humility and Compassion, Ed Welch offers sage wisdom on what to do and not to do when ministering to those who are in a season of grieving. Continue Reading →

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Emotions and Our Past, Present, and Future

Emotions and Our Past, Present, and Future

Posted by | Nov 6, 2024 | |

Emotions are part of God’s good design. Sometimes this is hard to convince ourselves of when our emotions are so visceral that we can’t see past them.  When we are hyperventilating because of anxiety and panic or when we are overwhelmed with grief over the loss of a loved one, it can be difficult to recognize the gift of those emotional responses because they feel so undesirable to us. However, I am convinced that Scripture speaks to our experience of emotions by showing them to be active responses of love that are made in the present, passive reflections of the past, but also that they should be flavored with present help and future hope from God. Continue Reading →

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The Counselor’s Toolbox: Confrontation that Moves the Conversation Forward

The Counselor’s Toolbox: Confrontation that Moves the Conversation Forward

Posted by | Jul 17, 2024 | |

Confrontation is the work of every counselor. We must do it. People can’t change if they can’t see what is wrong, and they can’t see what is wrong if no one helps them to see it. But this task can also be daunting to many of us. Each of us has a personality, which likely lends us to one way of doing the work of confrontation. Some of us with a more boisterous personality may tend to naturally be more direct in the confrontational work, while others of us (myself included) tend to be more timid and apprehensive to directly confront and prefer a more “backdoor” approach. The truth is, wherever you fall in that spectrum, your confrontational style should reflect more about what you are hearing and who you are listening to than it does about your personality. Continue Reading →

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Empathy: The Counselor’s Virtue

Empathy: The Counselor’s Virtue

Posted by | Mar 25, 2024 | |

When understood through a Christ-centered, biblical lens, empathy is a term that can encapsulate our willingness to seek to understand the counselee and be moved by their story so that we can help them in their suffering. I want to briefly highlight three ways in which the virtue of empathy helps us to care for people like Christ cared for people. Continue Reading →

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