12 Verses to Memorize to Reduce Your Anxiety
Ever struggled to change your thoughts? It can be tough to change unhealthy thought patterns if you’re just trying to remove unhealthy, unholy thoughts. A better strategy is to replace them with better, God-centered thoughts. And the best source of good replacement...
Top Questions Your Teen is Asking About Faith
As a parent of a teenager, it can be so difficult to know how to have important conversations with your child. Perhaps you resonate with a conversation like this that happens daily or weekly: Parent: Hey! How was school today? It is so good to see you!Child: Oh…it was...
Marriage Problems: An Overlooked Opportunity
Seeing at-risk marriages saved and transformed is close to the heart of God, and our church. Too often, couples are told by the world that their problems cannot be solved and they should, therefore, divorce. However, this perspective fails to consider the reality of...
A Biblical Counselor’s Favorite Question
Research has determined that our thoughts are a driving force behind how we feel. As an authority on the subject, author and psychiatrist Dr. David Burns writes: “Your feelings result from the messages you give yourself. In fact, your thoughts often have much more to...
Those Mid-January Blues
Research has indicated that many find the middle of January to be the most depressing time of the year. The holiday cheer has faded and the bills accumulated for it are arriving. The cold and dark of winter persists and there doesn’t seem to be much on the calendar to...
Welcome to 2022!
Welcome to 2022! It is that curious time, once again, when people make all sorts of resolutions to do and not do a whole myriad of things. I am not sure what percentage of people actually succeed in their New Year’s resolutions, but the percentage seems awfully low...
Catch Your Drift: One Key to a Successful Marriage
“We just drifted apart.” We will never know how many times this statement has woven itself into stories of marital crisis and divorce. We all know that having a great marriage is hard work and that a perfect marriage is impossible. So how do imperfect marriages stay...
Be Like Me
Have you ever thought about the person in the Bible you most relate to? For me, it’s the Apostle Peter. He was impulsive and outspoken, capable of fierce loyalty and love, and equally prone to despair and doubt. Peter’s human frailties are front and center in many of...
