A Biblical Counseling Study #6 Photo by Horacio Lander on Pexels.com A friend and I were discussing depression and anxiety thisweek. We acknowledged that truly, the feelings of depression and anxiety are asymptom of another problem. No one chooses to feel panicky and sleepless orweepy and exhausted. If our bodies were a car, the symptoms …
Pro-Life Ministry in the Church
Women who go to church seek abortions. Is this a shocking statement to you? It shouldn’t be. All church attendees are imperfect people. Everyone is a sinner in need of a Savior. Some sins, such as gossip or backbiting, are less shocking, but temptation beckons everyone into its trap. Where does a pastor’s daughter go …
Stewarding Well the Plan B Path
A Biblical Counseling Series #4 “It is not supposed to be this way.” Right now I see many believers walking difficult paths on my social media feed. A teenage Pastor’s daughter died in a random accident. A young girl is on her journey toward Heaven from a brain tumor. A family is dealing with the …
Grieve the Thorns
In my mind, I can still picture the room in the far corner of my heart stuffed to the brim with the pain and sorrow of undealt with hurts. Anytime a new grief would surface, it would be shoved back into that room, sometimes with great difficulty. Until the door just would not shut anymore, …
What Do You Know For Sure?
“I am sorry to tell you that the results say you only have six months to live.” “The test is positive. Your situation is incurable. Let’s talk about how we can manage it now.” “Years of skipping annual check-ups have led us to a point of no return. There is nothing we can do now.” …
True Love
It was the shoes that I remember. Piles upon piles of shoes no longer needed by their murdered owners. Our tour of the Holocaust museum in Israel fell right after our tour of Golgotha and the empty tomb. The reality of what God’s love cost Him had never looked rawer than it did to me …
Give to Him That Asketh of Thee
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com His eyes were sky blue. They reminded me of the color of my grandfather’s eyes, except his had not been drained of hope, as this man’s seemed to be. The red light did not give us much time to chat, and the temperature registered in negative numbers with the wind …
Faithful Under Pressure
J. Hudson Taylor labored under intense pressure, ill health, and deep grief as he followed God’s call to China. It is reported that over the course of his ministry he buried two wives and no less than four children. At one point, his faith was so low, he even considered taking his own life. …
A Christmas Song in the Night
The lights and the tinsel Sparkle like gold Singing a love song, With a story long told. When God became man, With humanity dwelt. Who walked here with us, Jesus, Immanuel. Imagine with me No gifts wrapped with love, No lights on the trees, No hope from above. Where would we be, If He had …
Free from Fear: Peace on Earth
It was an obscure benediction of Advent that jumped off the page of God’s Word. Zechariah, the father of John the Baptist, had been mute until that day his son was named. His first words poured out prophecy for the coming Messiah, and have been recorded in Luke’s Gospel, chapter 1:67-79. “That he would grant …
His Song in the Night 