Everyone who does counseling knows that there are 1,000s of things that happen in a session that can be interpreted in any number of ways. When a person recounts a situation, he must leave out things and also include things. If the event being recounted took an hour to occur and the story teller only […]
Context: Bob works for a boss who is very strident in wanting his employees to be very very precise in what they do. He is what some would call a perfectionist. What he requires is not impossible to do, but the working environment is very difficult. Bob is wondering how he can do a good […]
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 […]
I think I know something about suffering, but of course, my suffering isn’t your suffering. I get that. When my wife died last summer, after an eight month battle with stomach cancer, someone told me that 98% of those who live in the Senior Housing understand what I was going through. Of course, that is […]
A little over a month ago I wrote a post called “Victims Cannot Heal.” I received a number of comments about it and didn’t discover until quite a long ways into fielding those comments that they were not actually about the post itself, but about the title. When I realized this, and the numbers of […]
I read this passage today and noticed that the king was talking with his young son and warning him against falling into grievous sin. He said, My son, keep my words, And treasure my commands within you. Keep my commands and live, And my law as the apple of your eye. Bind them on your fingers; Write them […]
Dear Pastor Mike, How does something like this fit into God’s intricate plan for the world? How does the brutal death of this little girl build God’s Kingdom on Earth? If He doesn’t care enough about her to save her, then why should He care about any of us? Serious question. Hi Serious, Several […]
A short caveat: I believe what I am telling you is true. It is what I think. But I know that as I have chatted with folks over the years that they can fool themselves into thinking they think certain things, but they are wrong. I often help others rethink their position, based on the […]
She realized her seething hatred was just as heinous, just as nauseating as the sins committed against her. She was no better than her parents. As surely as her father thrust himself on her, she had in her imagination, thrust a knife, with hot fury, into his chest. Glenda could have easily been the one […]
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