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While completing my MABC at the Master’s University, I was given the following case study and asked to respond. CASE STUDY Erik is a 20-year-old Believer who has been struggling with pornography for the last three years. Before that time he knew that pornography existed, but had never seen it because his parents carefully monitored […]

If published statistics are true, 66% or more of second marriages including children from previous marriages fail. This may be due in part to the increased stress experienced by all members of a new step, or blended family. Stress in a new family situation is normal. Even if the transition appears to be going well, […]

With the increased number of new books coming out on biblical counseling, we sometimes forget some of the basics we have learned in the past. An area not to be forgotten are Dr. Wayne Mack’s Eight “I’s” of Biblical Counseling. They represent a methodology of techniques that are woven together to help the counselor most […]

Your counselee is doing well. He has worked hard for many months, has completed his homework well, has memorized Scripture, and God has granted repentance. After much prayer you have decided it will soon be time that he graduate from formal counseling and return to normal discipleship within his church. It would be well to […]

I am very non-confrontational. And over the past few years I’ve determined that is mostly fear of man. God’s Word has challenged me that I must love people more than I fear them or risk being a poor shepherd and counselor. It has taken me many years of ministry to learn how to confront, admonish, […]