What is Christian Counseling Really, Anyway?
“Counseling is indeed an ambiguous enterprise. It is done by persons who can’t agree on what to call themselves, what credentials are necessary to practice, or even what the best Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Critical Thinking
What Steps Should You Follow to Get Started as a Counselor?
My strongest recommendation to you is to find an organization or ministry that will offer training in this area. Yes, it will probably cost some money, but it will be Continue Reading →
Handling the Session with Good Interviewing Skills
It is important that the counselor always listen, not just to what the client is saying, but how they say what they are saying. Careful listening skills can lead the Continue Reading →
The New Life Christian Counseling Map (A Format to Follow)
While there will probably never be a single “format” to follow with every client in exactly the same manner, haphazard counseling can prove ineffective for the counselor and disastrous for Continue Reading →
Using the Principles wisely in Counseling
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out. Proverbs 20:5 (KJV) Scripture is full of practical and useful counsel Continue Reading →
The Church and Security
It is time for churches to take action and prepare for the worst so they can avoid it if possible. Church shootings are the most well-known dangers that are probable, Continue Reading →
Counseling and Your Personal Life
The tendency on your part will be to give more and more to your counseling. I will agree that you have to be ready to make a real sacrifice, and Continue Reading →
Blind Leading the Blind
The problem with spiritual blindness is that those who are spiritually blind don’t know it. This is why we are exhorted in the Word to make a self-examination. (See 2 Corinthians 13:5 Continue Reading →
What Does It Mean To Love Jesus?
I asked myself, “Do you really love Jesus?” Pastor John Piper said, “If you don’t love Jesus, you don’t love God, and if you don’t love God you don’t love Continue Reading →
What is a Christian?
Depending on whom you ask you will also get varying definitions. I will attempt to give a generally good description of who we are, as compared to what others say Continue Reading →
Cognitive Distortions
Understanding the problem to understand the solution. People do the things they do, because they BELIEVE the things they believe. This is the key principle for the counselor to use Continue Reading →
Stop Playing “The Game”
One of my brothers called me one day. I could tell from his voice that he seemed stressed a bit. “You doing anything?” he asked. “Nope,” I answered, “just watching Continue Reading →
Why I believe in God
“My Story”
The following is from an email sent to me by a precious person who also was a client of mine a while back. I wanted to share this story with Continue Reading →
Choosing A Church
People choose churches based on various things, as you know. In my opinion, the list includes the following in this order: Location– If someone can find a church which includes Continue Reading →
What Does Love Feel Like?
While sitting through the movie, “The Shack,” along with my wife, I was struck with an odd idea. Well, to be honest, odd to me. The main character was going Continue Reading →
Counselors like King Solomon
First Kings 3:16-28, tells a story of two women who came before King Solomon. Each was claiming that a certain baby was theirs. What had happened, was that one of Continue Reading →
A Happy Marriage – The Elusive Dream For Many
As a counselor of 30 years, I have had the opportunity to speak at many marriage seminars, retreats, and other similar gatherings. On top of that, I have counseled with Continue Reading →
Did Jesus Make Mistakes?
The answer to this question is not a simple “yes,” or “no.” A religiously motivated person will have no problem instantly shouting “No!” to the question, at the top of Continue Reading →
Adult and Minor Children – How to handle problems
Section One – Adult Children Helping is doing something for someone that he is not capable of doing himself. Enabling is doing for someone things that he could and should Continue Reading →