Word-centered people who enter counseling will be more likely follow the guidance set out in Scripture. Because they know more of the depth of their sin, they are more willing to allow other church members to help them stay on that right path.
Small groups are the place to push past Bible knowledge and on to life application so that we can see people's lives transform more and more into the image of Christ.
So often, it's others around us who can see where God wants to grow us even before we see it ourselves.
Any counseling that does not pursue spiritual formation through an intimate relationship with Jesus by faith as one of its chief goals is not worthy to be called BIBLICAL counseling.
Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.
You eat the wealthy, sir, and it will be your last meal.
There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age that the honorable term 'conservatism' can be appropriated to disguise the advocacy of a powerful, lawless, aggressive an...
Welcome to Hartford. The poorest city in the wealthiest state in the richest country on earth.
a kind of emptiness existed in the center of my bagel; really it was just the hole that's in the middle of all bagels; 'i need to go read my blog to find out what my politics are
The Perfect Man uses his mind like a mirror - going after nothing, welcoming nothing, responding but not storing.
When a man does not dwell in self, then things will of themselves reveal their forms to him. His movement is like that of water, his stillness like that of a mirror, his responses like those of an echo.
The sage is still not because he takes stillness to be good and therefore is still. The ten thousand things are insufficient to distract his mind - that is the reason he is still.
The man who has forgotten self may be said to have entered Heaven.
Ultimately a regulation is a signal of design failure...it is what we call a license to harm: a permit issued by a government to an industry so that it may dispense sickness, destruction, and death at an "acceptable" rate.
Through the darkness of night, Light will lead the way.
Peter's face clouded. "Everything comes at a price. Or have you not learned that yet?
Shh, listen, don’t be discouraged if you don’t win. It’s a learning process. You’ll get better with each try.
[...] and the pea was put in the museum, where it can still be seen, if no one has stolen it.
When we worry, we are telling God, "You are neither trustworthy nor in control, so I need to worry and scheme as I take matters into my own hands." In this way unbelief drives worry, for it is impossible to worry when we are trusting in the provision...
God finds a way to weave even your mistakes into the fabric of a brighter future if you let Him.
Grandpa had made the Lord seem so real, I wouldn't of been surprised if he'd said good night to Him. But after a long pause he just said a-men.
