Tag: biblical counseling

• Four Thoughts on Four Soils

  1Again [Jesus] began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea, and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land. 2And he was teaching them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said…

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  January 4, 2024

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• Your Standard [1-minute read]

  15The way of a fool is right in his own eyes,but a wise man listens to advice.–Proverbs 12 Israel was never more rebellious than in the book of Judges. That disastrous book carried with it this basic theme verse: In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his…

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  December 12, 2023

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• The Mind of Christ

  14The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. 15The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, 16for, “Who has…

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  August 13, 2023

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• Crisis David

  1Now when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid against the Negeb and against Ziklag. They had overcome Ziklag and burned it with fire 2and taken captive the women and alla who were in it, both small and great. They killed no one, but carried them off…

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  December 7, 2022

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• We Trust the Author

  14“And now I am about to go the way of all the earth, and you know in your hearts and souls, all of you, that not one word has failed of all the good things that the LORD your God promised concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one of them has failed.–Joshua 23 I…

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  July 20, 2022

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• In Whom Do You Trust?

  8It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man.9It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in princes.–Psalm 118 A major difference between Biblical and secular counseling is found in anthropology. I have spoken with secular coaches and counselors who have said a version of this: “the answer…

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  June 21, 2022

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• Your Own Counsel

  11“But my people did not listen to my voice;Israel would not submit to me.12So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts,to follow their own counsels.–Psalm 81 Asaph at times quoted God in this psalm. Here is one of those moments. What was God’s message? His people refused to do two things and so God…

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  May 30, 2022

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