by sdbarnard | Jan 30, 2015 | General |
By Joan Vance I think the greatest challenge at the onset of counseling is to help the counselee be convinced that God’s Word is the counselor. Early on in the counseling session I like to direct the counselee to see and believe that the Word of God is sufficient to...
by sdbarnard | Jan 23, 2015 | General |
I read recently in a book about sanctification (roughly defined as: the process of becoming what a Christian is declared to be) the following, “All that is true for me in Christ has not yet been accomplished in me by the Spirit” (Sinclair Ferguson;...
by sdbarnard | Jan 16, 2015 | General |
Thomas Boston says “a good conscience is a continual feast.” So what good comes from a guilty conscience? “The awareness that one has done wrong leads to bad feelings” (Adams 1979, 196). A guilty conscience produces bad feelings to “warn us that...
by sdbarnard | Jan 9, 2015 | General |
Beloved, I have a bee in my bonnet, a bur under my saddle, or a pebble in my shoe. Beloved, I have something that will not become stuck in my craw…it must be said…and it must be said in a way that both edifies the hearer (Eph 4:29) and exalts the...
by sdbarnard | Dec 24, 2014 | News |
Merry Christmas! May your joy be full in the Lord as we celebrate the birth of our Savior. 10,000 Blessings in the Wonderful Counselor, Rod and Staff Ministries
