People, and the situations they face, are invariably complex. And deciding what is wise in a counseling setting is much harder to determine. Is this a time to push a person by speaking hard, unequivocal truth? Or a time for patience and gentleness, majoring on compassion, care, and support? Choosing is where wisdom comes in. Continue Reading →
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Some counsel seems unusually relevant in all sorts of different situations. That we are small and God is big is precisely that kind of truth. By reflecting on its relevance, we see how and why it speaks so powerfully. Continue Reading →
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How do we respond to a lack of progress in counseling? Our responses reveal much about our attitudes to our counseling, our counselees, and God. Continue Reading →
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It’s a familiar phrase: love covers over a multitude of sins (1 Pet. 4:8). But how does it sit with the biblical counseling community? Continue Reading →
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Children are unusually prone to fear. From a fear of the dark to night terrors; from separation anxiety to monsters under the bed, our children fear many things. And this has been an unusually fearful year. Children have watched their parents don masks to guard against an invisible threat, open doors with elbows, and wash hands over and over again. They have seen people giving others a wide berth and recoiling when someone gets too close. Now at one level, our children’s fearfulness makes sense. Being small is scary. When most everything is bigger than you, a little apprehension seems wise. But what if things are not quite as they seem? What if some childhood fear is driven, not by feeling too small, but by feeling too big? Continue Reading →
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