Heath Lambert, who serves as the Executive Director at the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors recently wrote a book called Finally Free: Fighting For Purity With The Power Of Grace that our pastoral interns recently read and discussed. His book was particularly helpful, insightful and full of practical wisdom. One such chapter was on how to use…
Walt Mueller shares in his book The Space Between: A Parent’s Guide to Teenage Development a few suggestions on how to offer stability to teenage emotions when they seem to be out of control that I wanted to pass on. He says… Treat your teenagers’ emotions as important. Don’t be insensitive. Make every effort to ensure that your…
What do you do with a child you have raised in the church and instructed in the things of God but they seem to not believe (or not believe to the degree you think they should) and they continually question the truth of God? Walt Mueller gives several words of advice: Be diligent in teaching…
A confrontation or rebuke is actually a good thing and all of us need to be confronted and rebuked from time to time. Tripp lays out several truths regarding biblical confrontation that are very helpful. Confrontation is rooted in a submission to the First Commandment. “A reliable indicator of our love for God is the quality…
Chester says, “the main reason we don’t change is our proud self-righteousness and our proud self-reliance. Porn and pride go hand in hand. It’s an odd dynamic, because porn brings so much shame. But we’ve seen that porn also puts me at the center, creating a world in which I’m worshiped. So despite the shame…
I’ve been perusing through a book that I read several years ago called “Crucial Confrontations: Tools for resolving broken promises, violated expectations, and bad behavior” and I wanted to write a couple words about some statements made in this book, as well as some personal thoughts on the issue. By “crucial confrontations” the author means…
Change. We all look for it in the folks we minister to. We want to see people transformed by the amazing Gospel of Christ. We pour ourselves out in ministry in order to see someone’s entire world revolutionized by the grace of God. But if you’re anything like me, there are times when, in your…
Read the article Love speaks many languages by David Powlison. This article highlights several helpful aspects of Chapman’s book but also points out several deficiencies that the reader should be mindful of when reading his book. I’d love to hear your thoughts after reading the article.
Why do most discipleship plans that people come up with have a light does of actually reading the Bible? In fact, why have I been guilty of putting a book, article before individuals rather than simply helping people get to a place in their lives where they can read the Bible for themselves…not completely independent…
This is a great word from Peter Hubbard’s book Love Into Light: The Gospel, The Homosexual And The Church on why there is deafening silence in churches today concerning the issue of homosexuality. Please read carefully and weigh his words with the words of Scripture not personal preferences, opinions, or thoughts. God’s Word is the authority that…
Theology Along the Way 