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Each disorder then is listed with its corresponding sin. Thus, depression is given a clinical description, while the biblical description column encourages counselors to investigate “symptoms of… wrong thinking and spiritual problems” such as hopelessness or guilt and to help the individual “structu
65 April 2019 there is the experience of great hardship in life. Those who experience pain and turmoil long for relief. There is a place for such relief. For example, if you have a headache because of sore muscles, you might take an ibuprofen or make an appointment for a massage so that you can have
The reviewer who could not make sense of the news report of a mother who defended her son from heinous charges by saying that he was "not capable" of these things had that problem because the reviewer's "catholic upbringing" denies the one biblical truth that can explain this disturbing news report.
Some of our members are adopting worldly life-styles that in a large measure contribute to the breakdown of marriages and homes. The devil is working hard in our, churches. He well knows that one of the best ways to destroy the church is by destroying her marriages. There is a great need in our chur
Also in counseling the minister is called to: “Preach the word”. (II Tim.4:2). He must not lend an ear to all kinds of modern theories of psychologists. As young people in the congregation you do well to remember that our Sabbath can be desecrated already before it begins by not preparing ourselves
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How possibly could you have the counsel of God apart from the counsel of the church? All who receive that counsel of the church and walk in it bow to Christ. All who do not walk in it bow to some other. Perseverance in the counsel of the church is the way of purity and victory over temptation and si
when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the Lord, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the Lord: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more. At that time they shall call J
April 2018 23 too quickly a know-it-all. This is a real danger in the counseling field, especially when the Reformed counselor uses his primary counseling tool, the Word of God. Of course, where a root cause is obvious and the Scripture is un- ambiguously clear as it addresses this root cause, being
A few examples can make that clear. If, for example, an older man has become addicted to strong drink, or a younger man to pornography, the counsel they need will be given from a firm foundation of Reformed doctrine. The competent elder-counselor understands man's vicious nature and the addictive p