Hello, Old Friend
by Douglas Wilson Affliction can harden us, and affliction can melt us—just as heat hardens clay and melts wax. The same input can cause two completely different results. And you can see this in people. Some people who, when they go through hard times, get hard. Others go through difficulties and it only makes them […]
Just Say No
By Lisa Leidenfrost “Will the Lord cast off forever? And will He be favorable no more? Has His mercy ceased forever? Has His promise failed forevermore? has God forgotten to be gracious? Has He in anger shut up His tender mercies? And I said, ‘This is my anguish; But I will remember the years of the […]
Plotting the Course
Counseling Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Plotting the Course by Curtis Solomon [This article was taken from the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors.] Counseling someone who wrestles with the symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress can be a long process. It is not a sprint or even a marathon. It is more like an orienteering or land navigation race. These races involve teams who […]
The Strength of Weakness
The following was copied from CCEF’s Updates from David Powlison. You can find the original here. June 3, 2019 David Powlison was invited to give the closing comments at the Westminster Graduation Ceremony on May 23, 2019. He was unable to attend personally but CCEF’s Dean of Faculty, Mike Emlet read the following on David’s […]
What You Think of God Matters
So make no mistake about it. How a husband and wife build their marriage day by day and year by year is fundamentally shaped by their theology. It governs how you think, what you say, and how you act. Your theology governs your entire life. And it determines how you live in your marriage. When […]
On Loving Her, On Respecting Him
By Douglas Wilson You can read this post on his blog here. Dear Allen and Carol, I am writing both of you together because I believe we need to tie this up into one bundle. Carol, you have been corresponding with Nancy for a number of weeks now, and Allen, you and I have been […]
25 Theses on Common Grace, Natural Revelation, and Pastoral Care
by Douglas Wilson You can read this in all its original glory here. One of the most common areas where syncretism—an attempt to marry two incompatible worldviews—is making massive inroads into Christian faith and practice is in the area of counseling and therapy. In the conviction that this is a very bad development, as well […]