Where Do I Go in Suffering?
However we feel about suffering, it is good for us because it teaches us about God and about ourselves. It is in the fires of suffering we learn what we are really made of, and we learn what we truly...
View ArticleDoubts: Fatal or Futile?
As you move further and deeper into the human heart, doubts can become a bit more serious, stubborn, and chronic. They can be doubts about moving towards someone who has broken trust with you, or...
View ArticleThe Trouble with Trust in Counseling
So how do we work with trust in the fine balance of counseling ministry? One way might be to think of it in terms of big “T” trust and little “t” trust. Big “T” trust is reserved for God alone....
View ArticleA Life of Trust-Choosing to Accept God’s Plan
In this look at Psalm 28 King David models for us how to accept the plan of God with all its unknowns and even suffering. He knows what it means to trust God because he knows God and Hi character. …...
View Article3 Truths to Move from Discontentment to Contentment
Most of the people you counsel or disciple will struggle with the sin of discontentment in some aspect of life. My goal today is to give three key truths to help counsel someone struggling with putting...
View ArticleFor the Fearful and Anxious
You’re reading the third of a several-part Grace & Truth blog mini-series on Biblical Counseling and Anxiety. In today’s post, For the Fearful and Anxious, Dr. Ed Welch takes us to two passages...
View ArticlePost-Adultery Reconciliation in Marriage
Reconciliation after adultery is difficult, but possible! Because of Jesus, we have the ability to forgive as we have been forgiven. The Word of God is sufficient to instruct both the counselor and...
View ArticleNine Questions to Help You Steward All of Your Life for God’s Glory
If the law of God can be summarized in a positive command, then we consider how to “run to” God rather than merely how to “run from” sin. Life is not primarily about what we avoid, but what we pursue....
View ArticleThe Journey to Restoring Broken Trust, Part One
In this post, Brad Hambrick describes how couples might work toward restoring their marriage in the aftermath of sexual unfaithfulness. He presents a series of steps that can progressively heal the...
View ArticleThe Journey to Restoring Broken Trust, Part Two
Earlier this week Brad began to lead you on a journey to progressively restore trust after the infidelity of a spouse. Today, we continue on our journey together. Continue reading →
View ArticleWORRY: A Plan to Stop Worry & to Trust
Worry is a continual tempation in life, isn’t it? And there are reasons to worry: ISIS, shootings, illness, mounting credit card debt, faltering relationships, rebellious kids, and on and on and on....
View ArticleThe Illusion of Control
I primarily counsel women and I have seen common themes in what my counselees struggle with. Although women struggle with fear, worry, anger, depression, and suffering, many women struggle with a...
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Your Children Are Designed for Trust
by Jay Younts Adam was designed by God from the inside out to trust his heavenly Father. That trust was so complete that it defined Adam as a person. He was totally secure in God’s presence even as he...
View ArticleYou Don’t Know What You Don’t Know: Three Wrong Assumptions
Your pastor asks you to counsel Heather, another church member. While he lacks details, he tells you that Heather’s husband Ken left her to move in with another woman. You agree to meet with Heather....
View ArticleInside the Heart of a CSA Survivor
In our book, In The Aftermath, Past the Pain of Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA), my co-author Bev Moore and I endeavor to bring hope to the abused by emphasizing the loving heart of God and His desire...
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Growing Trust in Marriage
Couples Working the Trust-Soil Together… Shirley and I continue to watch the Paul Tripp marriage seminar video series based upon his book, What Did You Expect? I blogged about session 2 here: Who Is...
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Growing Trust in Marriage
Couples Working the Trust-Soil Together… Shirley and I continue to watch the Paul Tripp marriage seminar video series based upon his book, What Did You Expect? I blogged about session 2 here: Who Is...
View ArticleSoul Care to the Sexually Violated (Part 1)
In recent months, wave after wave of sex crime reports have crashed national headlines, implicating (but not limited to) the United Nations, U.S. Congress, Hollywood kingpins, and an Olympic-linked...
View ArticleSoul Care to the Sexually Violated (Part 2)
The previous post introduced a series of considerations for counseling victims of rape and sexual abuse. First, she is probably traumatized. Sexual violation is almost always considered to be a...
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From Victim to Victor: Vibia Perpetua’s Story
Giving Voice to the Voiceless In the United States, March is known as “Women’s History Month.” When we think of the early church, our minds typically focus on the Church Fathers. Sadly, we normally...
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