“Our goal is to be a church of biblical counseling—we want these truths to permeate everything we do….Call it counseling; call it specialized discipleship. It doesn’t matter. We want to be a progressive sanctification machine, a discipleship factory. We want people growing and changing where god’s Word and Sprit make each of us more like […]
Refined Sins
“The message should be clear. God is grieved over our “refined” sins just as He is grieved over sexual immorality or dishonesty. I am not suggesting that being irritable at one’s spouse is as serious as something like adultery. I am saying that being irritable at one’s spouse is sin, and that all sin grieves […]
This Is Life Eternal
“All social intercourse between human beings is a response of personality to personality, grading upward from the most casual brush between man and man to the fullest, most intimate communion of which the human soul is capable. Religion, so far as it is genuine, is in essence the response of created personalities to the Creating […]
When There Is Nowhere Else To Go
“My soul clings to you; your right hand upholds me” (Psa 63:8).
A Church of Biblical Counseling
“I love biblical counseling, but we can’t see it as a ministry of a few people to a few “unhealthy” people. Biblical counseling is the calling of all of God’s people all of the time because we are all striving to grow in Christ all the time.” “Does that mean we shouldn’t launch local church […]
A Definition of Biblical Counseling
“Christ-centered, church-based, comprehensive, compassionate, and culturally informed biblical counseling depends upon the Holy Spirit to relate God’s Word to suffering and sin by speaking and living God’s truth in love to equip people to love God and on another (Matt. 22:35-40). It cultivates conformity to Christ and communion with Christ and the body of Christ, […]
A Purpose of Scripture
“The person who routinely looks in the mirror without making alterations does not understand the purpose of the mirror. Likewise, the person who reads or listens to God’s Word without applying what he has heard obviously doesn’t understand the purpose of Scripture” (C.J. Mahanney, Why Small Groups?, p. 9).
What Counts in the End
“No matter how extensive one’s scriptural knowledge, how amazing one’s memory, it is self-deception if that is all there is…It is not what one knows, but what one does that counts. True knowledge is the prelude to action, and it is the obedience to the word that counts in the end” Peter Davids quoted in […]
wise love in action
Wise counseling is essentially a way of loving another person well. It is a way of speaking what is true and constructive into this person’s life right now. Good counseling is essentially wise love in action. David Powlison, Speaking Truth in Love, p. 5-6.