Helping you grow in God's all-sufficient grace and truth
As a biblical counselor, my heart’s desire is to help others get to the heart of their struggles—to help them to experience life-transforming change wrought by the Spirit of God through the Word of God. The Confessional Statement of the
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Last month, I had the privilege to teach a webinar on anxiety with the Biblical Counseling Alliance. If you are not familiar with this resource ministry, let me introduce you to them. In January of 2016, out of the efforts
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Depression can be debilitating. Chances are very good that you already know this, personally, or know someone who struggles. Serious depression is a crippling state which may leave you unable to function normally and, sometimes, not even caring that it
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Last week, I was blessed to teach a two-hour seminar in our church’s discipleship counseling training center on the subject of depression. First, I shared my own personal experience with depression and anxiety, and then drew attention to the experiences
Continue reading[This is the first of four posts encouraging you to study the Old Testament book of Lamentations.] In truth, all suffering can be traced back to the entrance of sin into our world; that is, before sin entered the world
Continue readingRecently, a man who had attended a conference in 2010 emailed to request the homework examples I had given in the workshop I taught on the need for personal discipline in sanctification. It took a bit of digging to find
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It is difficult to exaggerate the value of an encouraging letter, a letter which affirms the value of a person made in the image of God, and which affirms the work of God in others. In his excellent book, Practicing
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By God’s grace, I’m a husband, dad, grandpa, and pastor at Cornerstone Community Church in Mayfield Hts, OH. I love Christ because He first loved me.
