Throughout the last 21 years that I’ve been a pastor’s wife, people have asked me how Mike and I met. It is a fairy-tale story that didn’t begin until I was thirty. And, like most fairy-tale stories, there are bad parts and good parts woven together, and my story is no different. Here’s how it […]
I thought I would try to do something that most folks don’t. That is, to discover what baptism is before talking about who should be baptized, who should be doing the baptizing, and how it should be done. Sometimes, looking a word up in the dictionary is a good way to begin one of these […]
Dear Bob, I’ll try to address both of your letters in this one. I looked up the link you sent and noticed that at the end of it, after spending a ton of time describing the problem, they gave a simple set of things that would help the person who was suffering from dissociation: “Psychotherapy, […]
Dear Dr. Lawyer, Thank you for reminding me how proud of I am and quick to judge. I’m realizing how often I judge others and the level of my self-righteousness is dreadful. I never really recognized it until the last year or so and I’m wondering if it is any connection to the folks I’ve […]
Some Ways Biblical Counseling Isn’t CBT I view the Biblical Counseling homework as having four helpful effects. First, homework gives more than one input to your situation than just me. I’ve been around for a long time and think I’ve learned a few things about life and godliness, but the homework adds another level to what I […]
Last week I wrote a little bit about the way Biblical covenant communities work. The heads make an agreement with God and everyone in his group, from then on, abides by that agreement. This happens for those who have no idea what is going on as much as for those who know exactly what is […]
I was thinking about the movie Braveheart the other day and specifically about the scene where the armies are lined up against each other getting ready to get to it. All of a sudden it occurred to me that I had always thought of myself as being one of the guys in the front row, […]
This is a quick update. I still look to the hills for my help. Nothing new there. When I received the news about my cancer not showing up on the PET scan the nurse who shared that news wasn’t as excited about the information as I thought she should have been. So, last week I […]
One of the great blessings I’ve had in my life is to watch, from a pretty close vantage point, the way God uses generations to spread his Gospel. I met Doug Wilson around 1973 or 74. We were stationed on the same submarine and in the same division. While we were together Doug talked about […]
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