Latest Blog Posts
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May 12th, 2025
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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April 30th, 2025
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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April 13th, 2025
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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April 6th, 2025
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
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March 30th, 2025
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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March 23rd, 2025
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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March 16th, 2025
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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March 9th, 2025
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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March 2nd, 2025
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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February 24th, 2025
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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February 16th, 2025
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.
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February 9th, 2025
Growing in Gratitude
As we recount, or receive, the details of life’s difficulties, giving thanks isn’t usually our first response, is it? In fact, as
we listen, often God is missing from the narrative altogether. Life can be unbelievably painful.
