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Training the saints to certification in biblical counseling
In Whom Do You Trust?
In whom do you trust? This question may not be one you have ever really considered but the answer to it is often revealed when difficulty or suffering arrive at one’s doorstep. It is revealed in how one responds to the difficulty or suffering one experiences. Now let...
Not good for man to be ALONE
How do we put our glorious God on display in our marriages? Why was it not good for man to be alone? Was the problem one of aloneness or loneliness? During a recent counselor's roundtable discussion we explored the purposes of God for marriage and its...
Biblical Counselor as Disciple-Maker
Biblical counseling is an essential aspect of discipleship, and biblical counselors are disciple-makers. The following is an excerpt from lesson one of our training material that highlights this aspect of biblical counseling: What our culture terms “counseling” the...
Scripture in Counseling: Helping the Counselee Choose Life
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...
Becoming what you are declared to be
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; emphasis...