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There is probably an unending range of emotions when we get kicked in the gut with a confession of porn, or when we find the evidence for ourselves. Of course you’re hurt and confused, trying to make sense of things.  Maybe you’re boiling inside like a volcano ready to erupt on the next person to […]

As one of the more recent additions to the counseling team here at the Chapel, I’ve been struck with the collision of these two ideas frequently. On the one hand, I know the Holy Spirit is the one who works in people to transform their hearts. On the other hand, I know I have a […]

For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus that together you may with one voice […]

Every biblical counselor must know and follow the Bible. Not only must we be able to use the power of Scripture in the lives of those under our care, I personally see more and more “so-called brothers” sitting across the table from me who are largely biblically illiterate. Counseling the Word is an excellent work. […]

While the self-esteem movement may seem an age old phenomenon, its beginning is fairly recent. The roots of the self-esteem movement go back to the later nineteenth century with William James among the early psychologist promoters of the importance of loving self. James first used the term self-esteem with a categorical scientific definition in 1892. […]