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
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
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
A Goose-y Christmas Miracle
Another Christmas miracle? Yes! This one tells of lost geese in a blizzard that bang-bang on the cold heart of unbelieving man. This family had headed to Christmas Eve service. Then he heard the thump. My friend Lynn Mosher, who blogs and encourages with the Word, shared this story she found around the web. The author is unknown. We at … Read More
A Christmas Carol for the Heart
Lynn Mosher shares today’s post on joy, suffering, and a Christmas carol. A heart-encourager, Lynn faced physical upheaval in 2000, and the Lord whispered His desire for Lynn take up her pen and write for Him. You can see her original post here. Don’t you love Christmas carols? Yeah, me, too! And one of my favorite’s is I Heard the … Read More
5 Ways to Overcome a Phobia
“When you begin fearing fear, you’ve swung wide the door to developing a phobia. Thank God he helps you overcome a phobia or other fear.” –Lucy Ann Moll This is the last of a four-part series on finding God’s solutions to ungodly fear. Read the first post here, the second post here, and the third post here. “Fear makes the wolf … Read More
