Latest Blog Posts

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  These Present Sufferings

  In the midst of our trials, we must keep our glorious destination in mind.

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  Helping Counselees with Humiliation

  When a person is experiencing the emotion of shame, this tells us a lot about what is going on in their heart.

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  Splashed by Sin

  God speaks loudly into our suffering. The Psalms are filled with the anguished questions of those who are suffering because of the reality of living in a sin-cursed world, those suffering shame because of being “splashed by sin”.

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  A Psalmic Faith

  the influence of the Greek mind on the early church. Greek Stoicism believed that emotions – anything that interrupted the goal of a calm and balanced life—were bad.

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  The Stewardship of Suffering

  God has a different view of thorns than we do. His ways are
  often paradoxical. He gives a barren couple a son and then tells the father to kill that beloved son on an
  altar. Strange, isn’t it?

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  Anger Part 3

  Before manifesting anger, we need to make sure we are asking the right questions and seeking to ensure that we have enough facts before deciding if anger is the right choice.

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  Anger Part 2

  When the reason or cause of the anger is all about you, when it is about how something has inconvenienced you; then that is a good sign that you are manifesting anger that is sinful.

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  Anger Part 1

  There is one such universal struggle that I would like to focus on in this series of blogs: sinful anger.

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  Ministering the Book of Lamentations

  God’s Word provides us with the testimony of a man who faced horrendous circumstances, yet experienced hope right in the midst of it all.

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  Sanctification on Steroids

  My previous education and training gave me worldly knowledge and learnedness, which now help me see that even with keen observations and brilliant minds, they lack a biblical view and biblical solutions.

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  God’s Redemptive Use of Trauma (Part 2)

  Sanctification, which refers to biblical change into the image of Jesus Christ, is obviously absent in CBT. Instead, holiness is exchanged for wholeness

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  Gods Redemptive Use of Trauma (Part 1)

  I was deployed to Iraq four times starting in early 2004, I served 44 months in an eight-year period. Combat tours like this will take a toll on both your physical body and your heart.