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",,,We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies. And if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know." (1 Corinthians 8:1b-2) I'm a huge advocate of Bible study. I wish more believers would read the Scriptures to learn things. In fact, even immature believers know SOMETHING about God, His ways, and so on. It’s good to have a library of God-facts inside our heads. However, I don't see that as the end game of knowin

When Adam and the woman chose to disobey God in the Garden, they unwittingly sentenced ALL humanity to be born with a handicap. By this I mean the capacity to be able to be led by the Holy Spirit of God, YET , with the inability to experience that until and unless one was ever born again. This meant that, until Jesus was born fully alive spiritually, EVERY  person ever to be born would have to live with an outside-to-in mentality. All direction would have to come from the wo

In 1989 or so I began to function as a sort of lay counselor for the little congregation we attended. I had no idea what I was doing nor what I was getting myself into by opening my heart to the pain of other souls. It’s been an amazing and rewarding journey…and sometimes heartbreaking. By early 1992 I had earned a Masters of Arts Degree in Biblical Counseling and quit working in an oil company office to counsel fulltime by faith. Since then, I have been on a continual quest

Have you ever noticed that sometimes Jesus will say something and it will go against the current institutional church culture…so no one...

The Design “One of the two who heard John speak, and followed Him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. He first found his own brother...

We hear a lot about a term these days that we really didn’t hear much in the past: being triggered. What does it mean? "In counseling, we...