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
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
Control Your Thought Life!
How’s your thought life? Did you know what you think about greatly influences your feelings and your actions? To feel right and act right, then pay attention to your thought life. When you control your thought life, you’ll not only feel and act like the Christian that God wants you to be, you’ll please your Father. Thought Life and Truth … Read More
Bitterness: Turn It into Better-ness!
You can learn how to kill bitterness. You can exchange bitterness for “betterness,” says biblical counselor and teacher Sherry Allchin, M.A. Chances are you know the look of bitterness. It … sours your face, may raise your blood pressure, and contribute to other unwelcome physical ailments. wards off friends, coworkers, even family when you let it out. eats you up … Read More
Marriage as Ice Cream Sundae!
Marriage as an ice cream sundae? Yes, an ice cream sundae is an apt metaphor for building a delicious marriage. Snag the download here. To build a delicious marriage, you begin with a bowl. With this “spiritual” foundation, the other great stuff of marriage piles on top–first the social and intellectual aspects as you build a friendship and then the emotional … Read More
God Calls YOU to Counsel
God call you to counsel other Christians. Did you know this? Does it surprise you or scare you? You may think, it’s best to heed the old saying: Don’t stick your nose in others’ business. In most circumstances and relationships, these are wise words to follow. After all, the private part of our lives needs to remain. . .respectfully private. … Read More
Story: Troubled Marriage Restored!
This true story tells of a troubled marriage restored. Biblical Counseling Center is now sharing our counselees’ stories, written by them. This ongoing series covers issues from troubled marriages to a dad heartbroken over the sexual assault of his daughter, from rebellious teens to older folks with shattered dreams–and more. Listen to Ed Owens as he shares how he and … Read More
5 Keys to Better Communication, 2 of 2
Do you want to know the 5 keys to better communication? Who doesn’t? This is the second post in a two-part series on better communication. Read the first post. The apostle Paul gave us keys for biblical communication in the book of Ephesians—four of them. When we apply these four keys of communication, we develop unity. When we break one or … Read More
