Author: Lee Lewis

True Hope in Battling Fear: A Lesson from Psalm 3

True Hope in Battling Fear: A Lesson from Psalm 3

Posted by | Aug 29, 2022 | |

I often use the Psalms in my own abiding relationship with the Lord and in my counseling ministries. They do such a good job helping us rightly identify and orient our emotions and feelings. Our culture tends to swing between venting feelings/emotions regardless of the consequence and a stuffing stoicism. Both extremes are wrong and damaging to the soul. The Psalms teach us how to pray our emotions and feelings to God. They teach us to reverently and reflectively pour them out before the Lord and process them through His perfect insights. Psalm 3 does a profound job at this. Continue Reading →

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Justification in Present-Tense: Equipping Counselees to Counsel Their Own Soul

Justification in Present-Tense: Equipping Counselees to Counsel Their Own Soul

Posted by | Mar 26, 2021 | |

There are different goals a counselor should have in mind while counseling. One of the main objectives I try to keep in the forefront of my counseling is teaching counselees to draw on the beauties and truths of God’s Word for the purpose of counseling their own souls. The more I have counseled, the more I have realized how difficult this discipline can be. Christians are often past and future-oriented in how they see and apply God’s truth while missing how those truths strengthen and sustain in the moment of that day. Continue Reading →

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Fighting the Downward Descent of Discouragement

Fighting the Downward Descent of Discouragement

Posted by | Sep 17, 2020 | |

This strange and difficult season of COVID has revealed so much in people’s lives and hearts. In fifteen years of pastoral and counseling ministry, I have never seen as much anxiety, fear, and discouragement all at one point. The inability for us to get back to our preferred norm leaves our hearts longing. This pandemic seems to hit everyone in very similar ways. Regardless of income level, religious affiliation, ethnicity, nationality, or age, most people, to some degree (I would say a great degree), are having to wrestle with powerful feelings and thoughts that bring varying degrees of discouragement. Continue Reading →

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Gospel Care for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Gospel Care for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Posted by | Apr 22, 2020 | |

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder can be one of the more perplexing issues to minister to and counsel. The patterns associated with this struggle oftentimes seem too irrational or too entrenched to be changed. Through the power of the atoning work of Jesus Christ, the fear, control, distortions, lies, and entanglements can be cared for and healed. To do so, we must get to the heart of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and see how the gospel speaks specifically to those heart variables. Continue Reading →

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The Implications of Misplaced Identity

The Implications of Misplaced Identity

Posted by | May 4, 2017 | |

As muddled a topic as identity can be in the lives of people, I have found God’s Word to bring great clarity on the topic of identity, self-worth and value. The idea of identity is one of those nebulous concepts that can be hard to understand. Yet, in my pastoral and counseling ministries, I consistently…
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