The Mailbag: You can’t always get what you want, but Jesus is all you need.
God won’t give me what I want. Now what?
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Throwback Thursday ~ 6 Reasons to Recapture Righteous Anger
Getting angry over the right things in the right way makes the church healthier.
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Psalm 136 and the Blessing of Spiritual Speed Bumps
Does the love of God still feel like breaking news in your life? If we’re honest, sometimes the “old, old story” seems, well, old to us, particularly if we’ve been a Christian for many years. But the writers of Scripture never tire of recounting this theme. They never take it for granted. Psalm 136 gives […]
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Book Review of Identifying Heart Transformation: Exploring Different Kinds of Human Change by Nate Brooks
Identifying Heart Transformation follows David Powlison’s How Does Sanctification Work (Crossway, 2017) and complements it in helpful ways; in particular, its aim to clarify what the heart is in Scripture and how all true heart change occurs. To David Powlison’s factors of sanctification change (truth, suffering and struggle, wise people, and God), Nate Brooks adds a wealth of perspective on details of change. Continue Reading →
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Living the Legalist Lie
I see legalism as one of the most difficult issues to help a counselee to understand in the counseling process. When I meet with a woman for counseling I can hear legalism embedded in the language she uses even though she may not realize she is a legalist.
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40 Things to Give Up for Lent
I’d like to challenge us all to give up these 40 things for Lent.
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Can You Really Change?
Can You Really Change? About this time in a new year, everyone wants to know, Can you really...
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The New Journey
When you start out on a journey you are wise to have prepared for the trip. Plan the journey, store up provisions, check out your resources. The interesting fact about the Christian life, however, is that from the moment when you are saved, you are already on a journey that you haven’t been able to …
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What Every Christian Should Remember about Jeffrey Epstein and His Story
What Every Christian Should Remember about Jeffrey Epstein and His Story Hundreds of pages of...
Read MoreSanctification > Resolutions: 6 Ways God Could Sanctify You in the New Year
How might God want to conform you more to the image of Christ this year?
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What is Christian Counseling?
Since there seems to be a considerable amount of confusion over the subject (see the review article in Donn Arms’ blog), I thought I’d take a shot at defining it by describing what Nouthetic Counselors believe and do. Counseling is not a science; it’s an art. In biblical terms, that means it is a function …
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The Mailbag: My word for the year is…
“What is your word for the new year?”
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