Nuggets of Wisdom
When the Detour Becomes Your New Road – A wonderful post at Desiring God: “The old road often seems like it was more relaxing and easy to drive. The new road can be bumpy and twisty, narrow with sharp curves.
Continue reading“Your testimonies also are my delight; they are my counselors.” – Psalm 119:24
The Book Is Here
It’s a thrill for me to let you know that the book Counseling One Another: A Theology of Inter-Personal Discipleship (Revised and Updated edition) has been released by Shepherd Press. Read the following endorsements from pastors and Christian leaders: “This
Continue readingNuggets of Wisdom [1/30/16]
Here’s a handful of articles and links that I was personally edified by this past week: Kill Your (Celebrity Culture) Worship – “I would argue that the problem isn’t contemporary innovations, and the answer isn’t (necessarily) tradition. The problem is
Continue readingOur Advocate with the Father
The Bible calls Jesus our “Advocate with the Father” (1 Jn 2:1). An advocate is one who pleads for another, a defender, an intercessor. When the apostle John attributed this role to Jesus, it was in the context of defining
Continue readingAccursed
When the Bible refers to someone as being accursed, it means he will be damned forever with no hope of redemption. It is from anathema, which means “the disfavor of Jehovah,” and was used of “the sentence pronounced” or “the
Continue readingHow to Resist the Devil
“The Bible uses one single, uncomplicated word to tell you how to respond when the enemy attacks: resist. When you do, the promised result is astonishing: the devil will flee from you. He will flee!” That confident—and biblical—paragraph is from
Continue readingHow Satan Uses Our Desires
This week, I’ve been reading Good News About Satan by Bob Bevington, a marvelous little book on spiritual warfare that is really helpful and based solely on Scripture. In Chapter Two, “Recognize their Weapons,” the author elaborates on three major
Continue readingRunning to Win
First Corinthians 9:25-27 calls us to a life of self-discipline: “Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. Therefore I run in such a way,
Continue readingThere’s a Little Guy Somewhere
There’s a little guy somewhere waiting to appear curled up inside his mother’s protective atmosphere. He’s the one they didn’t plan on. He’s an extra mouth to feed, a little inconvenience neither of them need. He’s doctor bills and formula.
Continue reading12 Ways to Combat Our Pro-Death Culture
Tomorrow is Sanctity of Human Life Sunday. Here are some ways we as believers in Christ may pro-actively combat our culture’s cheap and convenient view of human life and its anti-children, free-sex mindset. Educate yourself on the facts concerning abortion
Continue readingWhat Is the Renewing of the Mind?
A critical part of the sanctification process is putting off the old self and putting on the new, “which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth” (Eph. 4:24). However, this transformation requires
Continue readingEphesians 4 Conference in Yorkshire, New York
One thing I enjoy doing as part of this blog is to promote biblical discipleship training and equipping opportunities. Sometimes these are events that I am speaking at, but most times not. I feel I have been so blessed by
Continue readingGod Wants You to Nag Him
If God chose to answer one of your prayers, today, which one would it be? What have you been begging Him to do for a long, long time? Years? Decades? What is it that occupies your prayers? What is it
Continue readingEars Wide-Open
“Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. To draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil,” says the Preacher (Ecclesiastes 5:1).
Continue readingThe 10 Most Clicked-On Posts for 2015
As another year comes to a close, please accept my thanks for being a regular (or new) reader of this blog. This year, there were over 230,000 visits to Counseling One Another. In 2016, by God’s grace, my goal is
Continue readingActively Being Still, Knowing God Is God
Psalm 46 exhorts us to “Be still and know that He is God,” but we often mistakenly equate being still with being passive. However, the opposite is true and necessary. Being still is much like waiting on the Lord; it’s
Continue readingThinking About “What Child Is This?”
The famous Christmas carol What Child Is This? was written around 1865 by the Englishman William Chatterton Dix (1837-1898). What child is this, who, laid to rest, on Mary’s lap is sleeping? Whom angels greet with anthems sweet, while shepherd’s
Continue readingThe Arm of the Lord
In our Lord’s Day services this month, we’ve been studying the Magnificat (Luke 1:46-55), the song Mary sang when she visited her cousin Elizabeth and the unborn John leaped for joy in the presence of the unborn Messiah. This past
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