“I can’t come to your conference because I don’t like psychology. All that stuff makes my head hurt.” “You have to learn a new vocabulary and you have to buy a couch, and you have to go to school for a long, long time.” “Counseling is hard. You have to be able to get inside people’s […]
Much Richer than Psychology
“Counseling in a church context is far richer than “designated expert” meets with “needy client.” –David Powlison
Do It Again
Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, “Do it again”; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough […]
American Sensibilities
Consider the well-meant evangelical exhortation to “invite Jesus into your heart.” I assume this imagery comes from Revelation 3:20 (“I am standing at the door, knocking; if you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to you and eat with you, and you with me”). But why, on the basis of […]
When Troubles Come Thick
by Douglas Wilson There are times—and this may be one of them for you—when troubles come thick, and there seems to be no end, and you cannot touch the bottom with your feet. Man is born to trouble, as Scripture says, as the sparks fly upward. But here is the encouraging word. “I waited patiently for […]
What is the Bible Basically About?
Or better: Who is the Bible all about?
My conversion story
How God turns a French atheist into a Christian theologian
The Doors
by Lisa Leidenfrost Worry, it seems like just a natural part of us that can’t be helped, or can it? Why do we worry and what is going on? Why don’t we just trust the Lord automatically when the possibility of something hard looms on the horizon? I think it would help to know what […]
Gracious is the Lord
Lisa is a counselor here with the Center for Biblical Counseling. She is married to Csaba Leidenfrost who for the past 25 years has been a translator for Wycliff Bible Translators and the Bakwe people, in the Ivory Coast. For the past several years Csaba and Lisa have been stranded here in the states because […]