Moving Sale Rocking Horse Blessing
A moving sale, a 70-year-old rocking horse, God’s perfect timing, God’s blessing, and a God-story.
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More Than Just Willpower
I’m wondering if our biblical counseling understanding of people (“theological anthropology”) may, perhaps, be “a bit off.”
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Good Cop, Bad Cop in the Home
The good cop, bad cop approach may work well when eliciting criminal confessions, but it was never intended for the home. You might notice it when one parent says, “Don’t tell your father [or mother]” and then modifies or subverts what the other parent said. These parents may have any number of reasons for their […]
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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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We are all Called to Counsel
That moment when God allows us to see the world through a biblical lens, sitting in awe of Him and the story He is telling through our life, is incredible. When we realize our life isn’t defined by our past or our pain but by our union with Christ, we start to discover strength in […]
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Who Is the Next Jay Adams or David Powlison for the Modern Biblical Counseling Movement?
Does the modern biblical counseling movement need a new Jay Adams and/or a new David Powlison?
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The Interplay of Desires and Emotions According to Proverbs
The book of Proverbs has been a go-to on many occasions over my years as a biblical counselor and pastor. In the last year and a half, I have been able to take a deeper dive into studying the book of Proverbs. I have come to see the pointed doses of wisdom and how Proverbs speaks to many of the dynamics and nuances that a strictly moral view misses. The perfect wisdom of God, as seen in the book of Proverbs, very much has in mind the immense complexities of life and humanity. Psychology tends to lay claim to cornering the market on these types of human complexities, but Proverbs would beg to differ. Continue Reading →
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Glory Awaits Us: An Easter Reflection
Recently my son asked to skip church. He was straining to understand why we keep returning week after week when, as he said, “I’ve already heard about God.” It’s a fair question and one that I think shows how his short little life has been fairly uncomplicated so far. Adults know better. Life is complicated. […]
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Heartbreaking Deception: Teen Girls, Social Media, and Body Image
While there are many factors at play in body image struggles for teens, social media tends to tip the struggle from distressing to devastating. Social media sways us with its addictive images, endless novelty, and excitement. Influencers and advertisers are unwittingly like the “confidence men” of yesteryear: smoothly speeding us along an agenda we don’t fully see. Continue Reading →
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A New Prayer for Anxiety
Living with anxiety is hard. Yet as finite beings in a fallen and broken world, anxiety makes sense. We are each confronted with life circumstances we cannot change, decisions with no obvious right answers, and a future that is more uncertain than we would like. Our lives always entail a degree of risk—there are no […]
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How to Stop Arguing about Christian Nationalism in One Easy Step
How to stop arguing about Christian Nationalism in one easy step
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3 Major Biblical Problems with Elihu’s Counseling of Job
Elihu was wrong about God, wrong about Job, and wrong to focus exclusively on confronting Job without ever comforting Job.
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