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Counseling Blog

Biblical Counseling Coalition Summit Meeting, May 3-4, 2010

April 30, 2010

God is strengthening and unifying his church in the area of counseling. For too long, churches have shirked its responsibility in caring for its members as they struggle with life. Churches have allowed the modern therapeutic world to diagnose and deal with the problems of life and as a result, ministry leaders have lost perspective [...]

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When Grief Strikes

March 3, 2010

Just in this year alone, we have had two major earthquakes in the countries of Haiti, and now Chile.  We can only imagine what families are going through with the loss of loved ones from these natural disasters. The media coverage has a way of heightening our senses to the grief, pain, and anguish people [...]

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The Pain of Infertility

February 24, 2010

Married couples rejoice when they find out they are pregnant.  But for those who are unable to conceive, they are flooded with a range of emotions.
Read the compelling article, The Bible and the Pain of Infertility, written by a husband and wife who wrestled with God, themselves and others as they traveled the road of [...]

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Sojourn Counseling Info Meeting–Feb 14, 2010

February 6, 2010

Sojourn Counseling is offering an informational session Sunday, 14 Feb 2010 for anyone interested in finding out more about the counseling ministry.  This meeting is for those who might want to jump in and start training at the beginning of the second quarter-April 2010.
The same informational meeting will be offered twice, in two time slots: [...]

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God Made Reality Real During Haitian Prayer Service

February 4, 2010

This past Saturday evening, over a dozen Sojourn members and ministry leaders brought food and love to share with Haitian refugees evacuated to Louisville from their earthquake-ridden island.  Sojourn partnered with three local churches to rally its members to care and counsel those grieving from loss of loved ones and belongings.   Little did I know [...]

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Sojourn Counseling–Step Into Gospel Mission!

December 23, 2009

God is constantly moving and working to build His church and advance His kingdom!  It is an exciting time at Sojourn as we see and experience how God uses His gospel message to call us to gospel mission as we live in gospel community.  Lives are being transformed, relationships and families are being changed, and [...]

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Home for the Holidays

December 23, 2009

Holidays seem to bring with them expectations, laughter, disappointments, lots of questions and discussions, feelings of still being a child, and memories of what was and, perhaps, longings for what never was.  As we look to visiting family, we may experience a mixture of responses in our souls-some good, some bad, some appropriate, and some [...]

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Where Do I Go For Counseling?

October 15, 2009

Life on this side of heaven is full of struggles.  Fear, despair, loneliness, doubt, worry, anger, bitterness, and hopelessness can weigh you down.  Nothing seems to change. Everything seems out of sorts.  Expectant answers to desperate prayers never seem to materialize.
What do you do?   Do you isolate yourself and fail to ask for help because [...]

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What Is the Goal of Counseling?

October 8, 2009

If you are bored one day, become a pollster.  Ask your friends, family members, even better yet a group of counselors or therapists and ask them a simple and straightforward question, “What is the goal of counseling?”  More than likely, you will hear a hundred different answers from those who even cared enough to answer [...]

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What is Counseling? You Must Love Yourself! (part 4)

October 8, 2009

Loving MySelf
In our quest to understand counseling, we are working our way through seeing “what’s love got to do with it”–namely God’s radical double-love command.
Before we can love our neighbors, we need to know what it means to love ourselves.  For most of us, we have a self-centered notion, rather than a God-centered notion, of [...]

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