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Empty Longings and God’s Treasures

Choosing to respond to our pain in a God honoring way will bring freedom and joy.

Counseling from Biblical Narratives

Truth In Love 345

How do we use the whole of the counsel of God, particularly the narratives in Scripture, when counseling?

Considering Categories of Sorrow

Truth In Love 343

Understanding the different categories of sorrow is helpful when working with counselees to identify the best course of action to serve them.

Flourishing Friendship

I’ve seen friendships in the church come and go. While I do believe there will be perfect unity in relationships in eternity, what about for the span of our lives here on earth?

We Are Called to Believe and Obey God’s Word Before Our Emotions Agree

The only proper ground of faith is the never-changing, always-enduring Word of God.

Considering Neuroscience in Biblical Counseling

Truth in Love 336

How do we, as biblical counselors, read the research of neuroscience with a helpful eye that doesn’t dismiss it out of hand but maintains a discerning heart?

Helping Counselees Form Good Habits

Truth in Love 335

Our goal as biblical counselors is to help form habits in the counselee that will last long after we’re done meeting with them.

The Abuse Pendulum (Part 1)

This is part of a series of four blogs about domestic abuse by Dr. Jim Newheiser.

Pursuing Purity Before Marriage

We are called and even commanded to be lights to a wicked and perverse generation, and we need the Word of God to inform what this looks like.

O Church, Arise

Truth in Love 330

The power to accomplish the work that God wants you to do is not in your cleverness or giftedness but rather in your faithfulness to deliver God’s counsel to His people.