The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
The biblical counselor must always remember that the ROOT problem is deeper than skin; it is sin. The ultimate cure is not culture, but Christ.
While the United States is becoming the most culturally diverse nation in the world, less than 5.5% of Christian congregations are multiethnic.
Who we are is not a question we can ask without seeking to understand the context in which we live. Biblical counselors seek to understand the influences that shape the responses of the human heart.
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.
Things joined by profit, when pressed by misfortune and danger, will cast each other aside.
Fear and anxiety affect decision making in the direction of more caution and risk aversion. Traumatized individuals pay more attention to cues of threat than other experiences, and they interpret ambitious stimuli as threatening, leading to more fear...
In the midst of darkness, he alone sees the dawn; in the midst of the soundless, he alone hears harmony.
It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.
But to mourn, that's different. To mourn is to be eaten alive with homesickness for the person.
Look at the stupid, poor people. Look at the stupid, poor, burned-out people. Look at the stupid, poor, burned-out people, look at their dead baby. It's death porn for the masses.
So it is said, for him who understands Heavenly joy, life is the working of Heaven; death is the transformation of things. In stillness, he and the yin share a single Virtue; in motion, he and the yang share a single flow.
Men who fear demons see demons everywhere.
Dad will come back,' said Charlie quietly. When Mrs Bone turned to him, she didn't look sad at all, in fact she was smiling. 'You know, Charlie, I'm beginning to believe you,' she said. 'After what happened to Henry, I can believe almost anything.
Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.
If our counseling is truly Christ-centered, then the topic of forgiveness will inevitably come up in the journey toward growth and change.
The counselee should be aware that you are not God. Better yet, she should be aware that you are aware that you are not God.
If all you are doing is spending time with the struggling members of your church and you are not building proactively into your church's culture, and you are being shortsighted and limiting the effectiveness of your ministry.
We are less interested in the number of disciples and more interested in the quality of discipleship.
Counseling is ultimately not about the counselee or the counselor, but about the Divine Counselor.
We must evaluate every person, place, product, perspective, position, or pleasure we have looked to in place of the promises of God, and turn away from those things accordingly.
