By Lisa Leidenfrost There is a difference between being in a stressful situation and being ‘stressed out’. With the first, you are put in a difficult situation and must get strength from the Lord to bear it. With the second, you are reacting to the difficult situation in an ungodly way, where your eyes are […]
Trouble happens. People are used and abused. Folks find themselves in various kinds of trouble. Parents don’t know how to help Johnny be a thriving joyful three-year-old. Teens feel lost and lack purpose. Many Christians feel uncertain and ill-equipped to give comfort, counsel and to help others grow in Christ (who holds the solutions to […]
Counseling can sound like a big & intimidating thing to do. Most Christians perhaps feel uncertain and ill-equipped to help others grow in Christ. In reality, Christian counseling is just another way of saying discipleship. Which, Scripture teaches us, is something every Christian can and should be doing. As believers, we should seek to know […]
Without Holiness, no one will see the Lord (Heb. 12:14) Some say holiness comes as a gift from God and therefore we don’t need to do anything with our lives. Some combine this with the passage that says, “we are not under law but under grace” (Rom. 6:14). On the other hand, others say, the […]
One of the things I point out in both premarital counseling and marriage counseling is that sometimes the reason for trouble in paradise is that expectations are messed up from the beginning. Here’s what I mean: I ask John and Suzy, how did you know how to treat one another before you were married? You […]
As a critique of Biblical Counseling, I was sent to this web page. I read the article and thought I might say a few words about how I approach marriage counseling. The place I begin in marriage counseling is to assume that the Bible is the foundation for all marriage life. Under that basic umbrella […]
By Lisa Leidenfrost “My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials” (James 1:2). There is an odd connection between joy and trials, even to the point that God is asking us to count it all joy when the trials come. But how can this connection be possible? Trials don’t usually cause […]
While psychologists may not be good at explaining why we do things, they are good at coming up with experiments that show how cool God made human beings. Here is an example. The observation that going through doorways causes us to forget “what I was going to do.” The title is misleading, however. They don’t […]
Everyone who has done any counseling at all has experienced this scenario: Billy comes in for counseling and complains that his wife nags him all the time and he can’t seem to do anything right. When you ask him if he is loving her well he says, “Yes. I take her flowers on her birthday, […]
The Center for Biblical Counseling (CBC), a reformed and evangelical ministry, empowers God’s people to support, encourage, and disciple those facing life’s challenges through the ministry of the gospel.
