This love poem, shared by BCC counselor Don Hart, shares basic biblical truths: love one another and love your enemies. A Love Poem: “Abu Ben Adam” Abu Ben Adam, may his tribe increase, Awoke one night from a deep. And saw within his room, making it rich like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold. … Read More
Big Mess, Bigger Blessing
Can a big mess become a bigger blessing? You bet. When a person does even a small act of love, people notice and God is glorified. Read this story of author and pastor’s wife Sharla Fritz, who got caught in the big mess at O’Hare airport in Chicago with her elderly mom. All flights were cancelled due to arson in … Read More
Free Download Friday
Friends, welcome to our Free Download Friday! We make these resources available to biblical counselors, ministry leaders, and to counselees (former, current, or future) for your good and God’s glory. Today’s download is our Change Model Diagram. Click here to download the “Change Model Diagram”. It visually shows you how a person with a problem — in other words, everyone — … Read More
50 Shades of Debauchery
50 Shades of Debauchery by Julie Glanschow is a wake-up call for Christians, and especially women, to the best-selling and pornographic book 50 Shades of Gray turned into a movie. The movie hits the big screens on Valentine’s Day. This is not a romantic flick. It is porn. Reprinted at our blog with her gracious permission. –Ed. 50 Shades: Sex ‘Toys’ … Read More
OCD: Spiritual AND Biological
OCD, or Obsession Compulsive Disorder, has both spiritual and biological components, and no one wants it. Ever. Here’s help to understand OCD and help your counselees. Written by Jeff Temple, a former counselor and trainer at Biblical Counseling Center, now serves as the Care Pastor overseeing counseling at Crosspoint Chapel in Saginaw, MI. While at BCC he compassionately counseled individuals and … Read More
Your Next Best Step
As our Caring Like Christ mini-course winds down, what’s your next best step? Before we go there, let’s step here: quick links to all the mini-course training videos: Welcome, Biblical Shepherding, Reaching the Heart, Sanctification Understood, and Deciding to Get Involved. What Is God Saying? This mini-course is slice of our 24-session Foundations in Biblical Counseling training course. Foundations covers biblical … Read More
Oops!
Oops. Got the wrong number! Yesterday Biblical Counseling Center announced at its blog and Facebook Event page a sale on BCC’s Biblical Counseling training. This sale runs now through noon Friday, January 23, and I got the number wrong. (Phew, confession is healing.) This is good news for you. The 3-courses-for-the-price-of-2 discount is HALF of what was listed in the … Read More
Every Wife’s Pain with Porn
Every wife whose husband watches porn has this question: “Why am I not enough for him?” I’ve heard this question from every wife I’ve counseled whose husband is involved with pornography. Some of these wives knew about the porn before marriage, but naively believed that they could change their husbands. It’s common for a struggling couple to believe that their … Read More
Christmas HOPE from Us to You!
Christmas HOPE from Us to You. This is our prayer on this day we celebrate Jesus’ birth. Sherry and I cannot express enough how thankful to God we are for you and for your faithful friendship. From the hopelessness of individual spiritual battles to financial struggles to insane wars or frightening Ebola outbreaks, HOPE is needed in the hearts of so … Read More
