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“Your testimonies also are my delight; they are my counselors.” – Psalm 119:24
ACBC is heading back to the Midwest and will be offering the Advanced Methodology Track and Fundamentals Track in Sioux Falls. Join us to become equipped to counsel and disciple others. Faith Baptist Fellowship will host three weekends of training:
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The Holy Spirit was kind to include the very personal letter of Philemon in our Bible, as a case study in forgiveness practiced the way Jesus commanded. Three Main Characters There are three main characters in this true story of
Continue readingA few leadership articles to read… How to Discourage Your Minister in the New Year – “I recently had someone come to see me who was struggling in their church. In all honesty it would have been hard to be
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The word addiction is now a regular part of our vocabulary. But what does it mean? How might we define it biblically? Most simply, addiction may be defined as voluntary enslavement (Romans 6:12-13). Our voluntary surrender to fleshly desires becomes
Continue readingCornerstone Community Church in Mayfield Heights, Ohio, is pleased to become the first local church in our state to partner with Addictions Victorious. For several years, our hearts have been increasingly burdened by our culure’s misunderstanding of the problem of
Continue readingO GOD OF THE OPEN EAR, Teach me to live by prayer as well as by providence, for myself, soul, body, children, family, church; Give me a heart frameable to thy will; so might I live in prayer, and honour
Continue readingThough I have lived in the Psalms the past few years, a while back I used Grant Horner’s highly-acclaimed Bible reading plan and was blessed. This morning, I began it again. This is a unique and challenging system where you
Continue readingThanks for another year of reading Counseling One Another. Here’s the ten most popular posts. If you have been helped and encouraged by the blog, please encourage two of your friends to subscribe to the free emails. May the Lord
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For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. – Isaiah 9:6 The
Continue reading“If we are to progress in godliness we need to fan the flames of a holy passion.” Almost thirty years ago, this sentence from the pen of R.C. Sproul gripped my heart. So when I heard of R.C. Sproul’s homegoing
Continue readingGospel Meditations for Christmas is hot off the press, as part of the 31-day devotional series from the Christ-centered writers at Church Works Media. Here’s the endorsement that I wrote for this new advent resource: “Rich, warm, beautiful! This book
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Isaiah 9:6-7, which was proclaimed 700 years before the birth of Jesus Christ, is one of the most-often quoted prophecies of the Savior’s first coming, but the prophecy longs to be completely satisfied when Jesus returns a second time to
Continue reading[Please pray for me this week, as I participate in the annual Biblical Counseling Coalition summit in Atlanta. This year is especially exciting, as we discuss the subject of ministering to one another in disability. I’m humbled to have been
Continue readingIn Psalm 18:30-50, David praises God for intervening in his circumstances and coming to his aid when he needed it the most. Today, God wants you to give thanks and praise for three specific ways He intervenes on your behalf.
Continue readingPrayerlessness may be the most serious sin problem in the church today. Why do I say that? Because the absence of prayer is fueled by prideful independence, which God actively opposes (James 4:6). Who among us wants to be a
Continue reading**This is a rerun of a popular post. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving! As always, thanks for being a faithful reader of this blog. In Luke 17:11-19, Jesus heals ten lepers, but only one returns to give glory to God by
Continue readingAs a follow-up to yesterday’s post, 4 Problems and Pitfalls of Psychiatric Diagnoses, we’ll let Mike Emlet encourage us to think more about the psychiatric diagnoses that are now part of our world. In Chapter 9, Emlet writes, “I want
Continue readingWhen it comes to psychiatric diagnoses and Christians, we are typically too warm or too cold. Michael Emlet, from the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation (CCEF), calls this The Goldilocks Principle. Either we are too warm (too accepting) of diagnoses,
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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.
