How is Christian counseling different than secular counseling?
Christian counselors are ambassadors of God’s wisdom. The difference between Christian counseling and secular counseling is that Christian counseling is aligned and consistent with scriptures. Secular counseling, on the other hand, applies the discipline of psychology void of theology; and God’s existence. What is the nature of counseling? At the root, it’s a two-sided conversation…
Jesus’ Love > My Shame
God is in the business of restoration. It is through the work of His spirit within us that we are brought back to wholeness. Nothing that has occurred in our past is allowed to have sovereign reign in our life when we summon the God of the universe for assistance. Those parts of our lives that…
Am I Truly Free?
“Jesus turned to the Jews who had claimed to believe in him and said… You will experience for yourselves the truth, and the truth will free you.” John 8:32 (MSG) Freedom Isn’t Something That Depends On Our Surroundings Freedom has little to do with where we physically find ourselves. The Apostle Paul, as recorded in his…
Healthy Self-Love
What did Jesus intend in the gospels when he instructed us to love our neighbor as ourselves? While some of us struggle to process whether it’s Biblical to actually love ourselves, many of us struggle by seeing ourselves negatively at a core level, believing we’re not worthy of love. Because we are often unable to understand…
Broken To Be Made Whole
When Jesus was on earth, a primary focus of His teaching was to debunk some myths about God and faith that the people had accepted. For example, the spiritual leaders of Jesus’ day made the outside, what people saw, the focus of faith. It was all about following the rules, keeping up appearances, and looking…