This is a free copy of the “Biblical Counseling Manual” by Adam Pulaski Copyright © 2004 Adam Pulaski, Steve Lihn Download your free copy from NTSLibrary.Com What you will find inside: Table of Contents Foreword How to View and Use This Manual I. Overview 1. Counseling Objectives 1.1. Introduction 1.2. Preconditions in Biblical Counseling 1.3. Foundations…
I have included this portion the New Life Outreach of Dallas, Inc., Policies and Procedures. I have removed our church name from the document so that you may find it useful. Just replace the YOUR CHURCH to the name of your church and they will be applicable after your church approves them. Please feel free…
As a counselor, I am never surprised when a client comes in complaining that their spouse committed adultery. The times which there comes some form of surprise is when a pastor’s wife comes complaining of the same. Pastors are for the most part seen as men (and women) who hold themselves accountable to their spouses,…
Over the last 30 years, I have discipled or mentored many persons, male and female, Latinos, blacks and whites, young and old, Christians. Paul saw it as an obligation and an honor. He makes this clear in how he states the following verses. 1 Corinthians 11:1 (NASB) Be imitators of me, just as I also…
“I’m not sure I believe anymore!” These were the words of a young wife who came to see me for counseling. Her husband of a few years had left her for someone else, and she was angry and mortified at the prospects of divorce. “Can’t God just make him get right?” she cried. She grew…
Have you ever struggled with keeping your word on something? A diet, maybe? As a counselor, I have pondered this question many times. The question is, “Why is it we do some things passionately, while continually failing to do other things? The question of dieting is one of these areas. Many persons make a decision…
One phenomenon which I do not believe is solely a Latino problem is that of how we deal with our adult children. As a counselor, I have been invited to many churches to speak on this subject. The reason they invite me is not that they just want to learn about the intricacies of dealing…
Remember and use the principles you learned in your training classes. “People do what they do because they believe what they believe.” “Where there are no consequences, there is permission.” “Change is not change, until there has been change.” And more. The first session should be primarily (if not specifically) for the obtaining of information….
Romans 12:2 tells us that we need to not conform ourselves to the pattern of this world. It teaches us that we do that by transforming by the renewing of our minds. The battle for control of the person is in the mind. Every person follows a pattern. The pattern they follow began early in…
First responders are recognized, police officers are applauded, our military is loved, people who raise money for cancer are honored, and so forth, but counselors must maintain their work private. As a counselor, I have ministered to hundreds of people for thousands of hours over the last thirty years. And, who knows about it? Well,…
I was speaking with a police officer I know and we reached a point in our conversation where we compared our professions. Though I do not arrest anyone, there are some similarities. Among those was that we both tend to deal with people at their worst times. In his case, as with many other peace…
First of all, healing (emotionally) is the result of when a person changes the way he or she processes the memories that were the result of an emotional trauma so that those memories will no longer interfere with their method of making decisions in the present. So long as the person continues to allow the…