We evaluate Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and its similarities to Biblical Counseling, noting that the only Biblical Counseling has an definitive and unchanging standard of truth that aids in defining the motives, goals, and methods of counseling in an absolute and truthful way.
Read MoreThis passage is profoundly relevant to a discussion of divorce as it relates to abuse and neglect. Some abused and neglected wives have been manipulated into staying in unsafe marriages on the grounds that God hates divorce, a phrase that has lifted and modified from Malachi 2:16.
Read MoreChristians differ widely when abuse, neglect, and habitual pornography use are considered as potential grounds for divorce. Some confusion results from the various definitions and severity of those potential grounds—there is not always agreement about the presence, nature, extent, or severity of these sins.
Read MoreManipulation is a painful and destructive relational dynamic. As a pastor and counselor, I’ve tried to help people work through these confusing and turbulent waters. Today, much of the current literature and counsel on the topic focuses on establishing “boundaries” or getting rid of “toxic relationships” in your life. God’s ideal for his children is a life in which we flourish in relationship to him and others (John 10:10). This can’t happen in the context of manipulative relationships.
Read MoreSin means different things to different people. If we are going to make honest and effective efforts at dealing with sin in our lives, or helping others deal with the sin in their lives, I think it is important that we understand the multi-faceted reality of sin, and how it manifests itself in our lives. To understand its subtleties, we will look at a number of words God uses to refer to sin. There are a lot of terms, and no one of them captures by itself all that can be said about sin.
Read More“People are frantically trying to determine the ‘secret, sovereign, decreed’ will of God, when all He has revealed—or has even promised to reveal—to us is the ‘moral, directive’ will of God.”
Read More"This 'training' nature of sin is why giving in to even small temptations to indulge the desires of the flesh can be so dangerous."
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