Hi Friend, It’s great to meet up again. You are invited as our guest to our Annual Celebration Banquet on Friday, April 24, in Schaumburg, IL, and we just wanted to check in and and see if you’ve had a chance to register for it yet. Most importantly, we wanted to make sure you saw this registration page: Click to … Read More
Marriage: God’s Good Idea?
Is marriage a good idea? God’s idea? Or outdated? Many who think about marriage and family wonder if the idea came from the jungle story, “Me Tarzan, you Jane; come with me to live in my tree house.” Others may think about “The Flintstones” and imagine a man and a woman from a communal group in a cave deciding to … Read More
Finding Hope in Troubled Times
You can find hope in troubled times when you know where to look. Isn’t this reassuring? Troubled times are as old as the Garden of Eden. God said to the devil, to Eve, and to Adam that their rebellion meant times of trouble for mankind. Indeed, “troubled times” is an oft-used phrase for these present days. Whether an earthquake or … Read More
Free Download Friday!
It’s free download Friday! Please stop by every Friday and get your free download. Our download library has hundreds! Marriage, parenting, fear, depression, priorities, sanctification — you name it. 🙂 Do you want to understand your identity in Christ? Used by counselors at Biblical Counseling Center, this download reinforces counselee’s biblical identity in Christ and gives hope. It is the fifth … 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
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
