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PTSD and People: Maintaining an Accurate Anthropology (Part 1)

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  • Greg Gifford

This article offers clear and practical instruction, based on biblical principles, to help those caring for people who are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The author seeks to show the interconnectedness of body and soul.

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Judging God

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  • Beverly Moore

This article addresses the natural tendency to judge God when we’re suffering, and gives advice on how to lead people to trust in him.

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Speaking Through Silence

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  • Lilly Park

The author makes the point that those who are suffering are comforted by the silent presence of fellow believers.

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Understanding a Man’s Middle Age Crisis (Part 2)

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  • Mark Shaw

This article offers an assessment of what has been called "midlife crisis," which affects men in middle age and is characterized by regret over past decisions and dissatisfaction with the life situation those decisions have created. The author offers clear a biblical understanding and approach.

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Understanding a Man’s Middle Age Crisis (Part 1)

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  • Mark Shaw

This article offers a description of what has been called "midlife crisis," affecting men in middle age, characterized by regret over past decisions and dissatisfaction with the life situation those decisions have created.

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Maddening Injustice

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  • Anne Dryburgh

Injustice, especially in the church or in the Christian community, can provoke a crisis of faith. In this article, the author addresses the anger that is so often the natural response to injustice.

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The Blindside of Suffering

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  • Adrian Martinez

This article provides a biblical perspective on suffering. It is intended to equip those who minister to believers who are enduring some kind of trial.

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Trauma and the Significance of Meaning

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  • Dave Dunham

This article addresses the struggle of a person who has suffered trauma to find meaning in his or her experience. It provides advice for those who are called to come alongside those who suffer.

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A Loving Father Disciplines Those He Loves

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  • Betty-Anne VanRees

This article reminds those who are going through a crisis that God uses suffering as discipline to train believers in faith and holiness, and that discipline is confirmation of his love for them.

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Biblical Storm Tips after Harvey

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  • Kevin Hurt

Reflecting on a very destructive hurricane (Hurricane Harvey) that struck the Houston, Texas (U.S.) area in 2017, the author offers biblical insights and encouragement for surviving the storms of life.

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Help to the Hurting: A Response to the Shooting in Las Vegas

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  • Biblical Counseling Coalition

This article was written in the aftermath of a mass shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada (U.S.) in 2017. It includes a list of thirty-six revealed purposes of God in his people’s suffering. The list, together with the Bible references, will be useful in caring for believers who are experiencing a crisis.

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Basics for Discipleship in Suffering

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  • Andrea Lee

This article provides sound biblical advice for providing discipleship to those are suffering.

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Trusting God in the Storms of Life

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  • Shannon K. McCoy

This article draws on Scripture to encourage those who are undergoing trials to trust in God.

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Two Gifts of Indomitable Joy

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  • Pat Quinn

The author encourages those experiencing tribulation by directing them to the joy that Christ holds out to believers.

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When Your Trial Seems Impossible

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  • Kevin Carson

This article provides solid biblical encouragement to those who are undergoing heavy trials.

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Gospel Guidelines to Guard against Greed-Driven Gluttony

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  • Donn Northup

This article discusses the eating disorder known as gluttony, and addresses the spiritual dimensions of this issue. It identifies the unbelief and sin, as well as the hope that is given in the gospel.

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The Prodigal Son, the Elder Brother, and the Bulimic

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  • Steve Hoppe

This article discusses the eating disorder known as bulimia, and addresses the spiritual dimensions of this issue. It identifies the unbelief and sin, as well as the hope that is given in the gospel.

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The Impact of Anorexia on a Family (Part 1)

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  • Ellen Castillo

This article discusses the eating disorder known as anorexia, and addresses the spiritual dimensions of this issue. It identifies the unbelief and sin, as well as the hope that is given in the gospel. Anorexia can precipitate relationship- and life-threatening crises.

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Three Foundational Truths to Fight Our Fears: A Meditation on Isaiah 41:8-10

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  • Robert Jones

Fear is an instinctive response to crisis. This article reflects on the words of Isaiah 41:8-10, to give a biblical perspective on the crisis, and the comfort of God’s promises.

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Face-to-Face with Poor Health

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  • Jason Hsieh

This article reports that serving others has been shown to be helpful therapy for veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress. The author notes that this lines up with biblical teaching about serving others.

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New Research: Volunteering Gives Purpose and Help to Veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress

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  • Charles Hodges

This article reports that serving others has been shown to be helpful therapy for veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress. The author notes that this lines up with biblical teaching about serving others.

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PTSD: When It Comes to Finding Help, Choice Matters (Part 4)

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  • Charles Hodges

This article offers practical instruction for helping those who are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. The author affirms the importance and benefits of biblical counseling.

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Counselling Complex Traumatic Relationships (Part 3)

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  • Rachel Rosser

This article offers clear and practical instruction, based on biblical principles, to help those who are counselling individuals with Complex Post Traumatic Stress, a kind of post-traumatic stress disorder.

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Restoring Hope: Crisis Counselling for PTSD (Part 2)

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  • John Foldberg

This article offers clear and practical instruction, based on biblical principles, to those counselling people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. The author provides a common course of counsel in such cases.

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Caring in Crisis: Beyond the Counselling Office

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  • Betty-Anne VanRees

In this article, the author provides clear biblical insight and instruction for helping those who are caught up in a crisis.

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Inside the Heart of a Child Sexual Abuse Survivor

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  • Pamela Gannon

The author offers insights into the emotions and thinking of people who have experienced child sexual abuse, so that those who try to help them can better understand how the abuse has affected them.

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The Abuse Pendulum (Part 2)

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  • Jim Newheiser

This article addresses three typical statements or popularly held beliefs about dealing with abuse in marriage. The author identifies the valid concerns reflected in each of these statements, the danger involved in applying them uncritically, and explains the better, biblical, way to think and speak about the valid concerns they express.

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The Abuse Pendulum (Part 1)

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  • Jim Newheiser

This article addresses three typical statements or popularly held beliefs about dealing with abuse in marriage. The author identifies the valid concerns reflected in each of these statements, the danger involved in applying them uncritically, and explains the better—biblical—way to think and speak about the valid concerns they express.

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Soul Care to the Sexually Violated (Part 2)

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  • Anna Mondal

This article helps us understand the traumatic effects of sexual abuse, particularly rape, identifying key considerations to be kept in mind when counselling victims of sexual abuse. The author also points to the comfort that believers receive by remembering the suffering and death of Jesus Christ.

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Soul Care to the Sexually Violated (Part 1)

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  • Anna Mondal

This article helps us understand the traumatic effects of sexual abuse, particularly rape, identifying key considerations to be kept in mind when counselling victims of sexual abuse.

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Compassionate Answers to "Why" Questions

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  • Pamela Gannon

Among the most troubling things for victims of abuse to deal with are the questions that it raises about the character of God. The author uses Scripture to provide some ways in which these questions can be answered, and encourage the victims of abuse to continue to trust in the goodness and the love of God.

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Responding to Emotional Abuse in Marriage (Part 2)

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  • Lilly Park

This article provides some diagnostic questions that may be asked of a Christian involved in a marriage in which there is emotional abuse.

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Responding to Emotional Abuse in Marriage (Part 1)

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  • Lilly Park

This article provides a clear, biblical assessment of abuse, identifies common themes in emotional abuse, and offers helpful advice for an appropriate Christian response to emotional abuse.

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Domestic Violence: Getting to the Heart

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  • Chris Moles

The author identifies the real root of domestic violence, showing that violence is not caused by anger. Rather, anger opens up a window into the heart of a person. Biblically speaking, counselling or pastoral care must address the sinful desires of the heart, not only the sinful emotions and actions.

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Intervening in Crisis Marriages

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  • Ernie Baker

This article provides simple and practical advice for office-bearers and counsellors who become aware of a marriage in crisis, and want to know how best to approach the situation. A “crisis marriage” is defined by the author as any marriage that is unravelling due to adultery, violence, or some serious secret sin.

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Helping Women Respond Biblically to Anger

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  • Carole Newheiser

The author uses the story of Abigail (1 Samuel 25) to provide guidance for helping women respond to anger in their relationships.

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Helping Churches to Better Handle Cases of Abuse

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  • Jim Newheiser

The author lays out a very practical, biblical way for office-bearers to deal with marital abuse. Not all will agree with his view on remarriage after divorce due to abuse, but that is not a central point in the article.

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Abuse: Domestic Violence and a Call to Repentance (Part 4)

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  • Chris Moles

This article explains why biblical counselling can be an effective response to domestic abuse: it emphasizes the biblical principle of not only putting off bad behaviour, but putting on godly behaviour. It shows the value of highlighting the abusive behaviour, contrasting that with Scripture,  and through the whole process calling the abuser to biblical alternatives.

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Abuse: The Need for Full Disclosure and Impact Statements in Abuse Reconciliation (Part 3)

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  • Julie Ganschow

This article discusses a part of the counselling process for abusers and abused. This part involves reconciliation, repentance, and confessing sin. Victim impact statements are mentioned in this regard.

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Abuse: Three Important Truths When Helping the Abused (Part 2)

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  • Anne Dryburgh

This article offers three essential truths to keep in mind for those counselling victims of abuse. The responsibility for change lies with the abuser, the abused needs to focus on honouring the Lord, and a supportive church community is integral for the abused.

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Abuse: Consider Jesus, the Ultimate Hope for Victims of Abuse (Part 1)

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  • Paul Tautges

This article provides help to those who are in a position to minister to victimes of abuse. It points to the sufferings of Jesus, and the strength and sympathy of God.

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A Biblical Definition of Abuse

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  • Greg Gifford

The article provides a biblical definition of abuse that is brief, but identifies various forms or aspects of abuse. The author also gives biblical references and illustrations of the various aspects of abuse.

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Troubled by Triggers?

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  • Andrea Lee

This article provides advice to counsellors about how to help believers deal with “triggers”—situations, locations, words, and people that bring their sorrows to mind, and threaten to make them feel angry, anxious, or hopeless.

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Getting Lost in the Details

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  • Eliza J. Huie

People who are in conflict can get caught up in the details of situations and lose sight of the fundamental issues that live in their hearts. This article alerts counsellors to that tendency, and offers advice to help them keep the conversation on track.

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Anger Talks: Are You Listening to Yours?

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  • Betty-Anne VanRees

In this article, the author provides insights into anger, and offers ways for believers to respond to God when they feel angry.

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The Power of Unforgiveness When Used as a Weapon: A Case Study

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  • Rick Thomas

This article addresses the phenomenon of unforgiveness, and the power it has to take hold of the heart of a person who has been sinned against, and prevent the restoration of a broken relationship.

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Tempted to Sue? An Alternative to Resolving Disputes Among Christians

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  • Lucy A. Moll

This article addresses situations in which Christians involved in conflict might be considering legal action, and promotes a biblical and peace-seeking alternative approach.

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A Testimonial: How Biblical Counselling Helped a Person Struggling with “Low Self-esteem” – The Idol of People-Pleasing

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  • Anonymous

This article is the testimony of a believer who was helped by biblical counseling to recognize the true character of her low self-esteem.

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The Lies That You Believe and the Truth that Sets You Free (Part 4)

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  • Shannon K. McCoy

This fourth of a series of four articles addresses believers who harm themselves, identifying the false beliefs that drive self-harm, and presenting the truth proclaimed in the gospel.

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Bringing Self-Harm Habits into the Light (Part 3)

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  • Mark Shaw

This third of four articles discusses the nature and motivation for self-harm, and presents the hope of the gospel as the way out of the addiction.

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Why Do I Hate Myself?: Motivations for the Dreadful Habit of Cutting (Part 2)

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  • Deepak Reju

The second of these four articles on cutting explains why more and more women are doing this, with the chief of reasons actually being rebellion against God. The article concludes by pointing to the love and the sovereignty of God as the source of relief and protection.

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Two Lies That Must Be Defeated to Overcome Cutting (Part 1)

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  • Amy Baker

The first of these four articles identifies two lies that keep believers from turning to God for relief and protection from cutting, and how these lies are defeated by the gospel.

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Cutting: Bleeding the Pain Away

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  • Amy Baker

Cutting is used to find relief from the pain of guilt and shame. This article is addressed to believers who cut themselves, directing them to find genuine relief in the blood of Christ, rather than finding false comfort in shedding their own.

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Who Am I, Really? (Part 2)

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  • Pat Quinn

This second article in this series of two lays the foundation for a biblical definition of believers’ identity.

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Our Identity: Should It Be a Focus in Counselling? (Part 1)

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  • Stuart Scott

This first article in a series of two identifies the dangers that counsellors face when helping people who feel worthless, and helps to steer a biblical course in encouraging believers to recognize their true identity.

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Understanding the Self: Created, Fallen, Redeemed

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  • Jenn Chen

This article presents some fundamental insights into a believer’s understanding of self.

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"Why Would She Want to Kill Herself?"

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  • Biblical Counseling Center

This article identifies warning signs for suicide, offers advice about how to become involved, and underlines the obligation we have as believers to become involved when a person threatens suicide.

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Suicide: The Preventable Death

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  • Biblical Counseling Center

This article offers biblical data and advice about suicide, and helping a person who is suicidal.

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Suicide, Salvation, and Eternal Security

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  • Robert Kellemen

This article uses biblical data to address the question about the eternal destiny of the believer who commits suicide.

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Strict Confidentiality?

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  • Deepak Reju

This article addresses the dilemma posed by the expectation of strict confidentiality in pastoral counselling, in the light of biblical requirements for dealing with sinners who refuse to repent.

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Counselling Men Who Have Had an Abortion

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  • Garrett Kell

This article provides direction to help those who minister the gospel to men whose child has been aborted.

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Showing Christ’s Love When the Burden Is Abortion

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  • Betty-Anne VanRees

This article offers advice for bringing the gospel to women who have had an abortion.

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Fighting Anxiety through Humility

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  • Lee Lewis

The author shows from 1 Peter 5:6-8 that humility is an antidote to anxiety.

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The Gatekeeper of Your Anxious Heart

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  • Paul Tautges

Using Philippians 4:7, this article encourages anxious believers to turn to God in faith, and seek “the peace of God that passes all understanding” that will protect their hearts from anxiety.

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Humility and Anxiety

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  • Dave Dunham

The author shows from 1 Peter 5:6-8 that humility is an antidote to anxiety. 

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The Anxiety Scale for Teens

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  • Ellen Castillo

This article focuses on teens and anxiety, and offers some practical ways to guide them as they suffer from anxiety.

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Helping an Anxious Teenage Insomniac

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  • Lucy A. Moll

This article offers advice for helping a teenager who suffers from insomnia because of anxiety.

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Questions for the Initial Session after Adultery Is Confessed

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  • Biblical Counseling Center

This article provides a short, helpful list of questions to ask the husband, and the wife, before the first post-adultery counselling session.

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How to Confess the Sin of Pornography to Your Wife (And How Not To) (Part 2)

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  • Jeremy Pierre

These articles provides husbands with practical, biblical advice on how to show true care for their wives after confessing their sin with pornography.

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How to Confess the Sin of Pornography to Your Wife (And How Not To) (Part 1)

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  • Jeremy Pierre

This article provides husbands with practical, biblical advice on how to confess their sin with pornography to their wives.

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Adultery and Counselling in the Local Church

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  • Jonathan Holmes

This article speaks about the benefits of providing counselling within the context of the church when there has been marital unfaithfulness.

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The Victim’s Heart

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  • Julie Ganschow

This article addresses the dynamic that often develops when an offender (adulterer or otherwise) repents, and forgiveness is promised, but the relationship is not restored because of the motives of the victim’s heart. The roles are reversed, and the victim becomes the offender. The author shows how the gospel provides the way for believers to escape this pattern.

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Post-Adultery Reconciliation in Marriage

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  • Julie Ganschow

This article identifies the damage that adultery does to marriage, and the hope that husband and wife can have reconciliation through repentance and forgiveness, and working by grace through faith to restore what has been destroyed by sin.

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Do I Admit I’ve Been Unfaithful?

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  • Julie Ganschow

This article addresses the struggle of a repentant adulterer, and the issue of informing his or her spouse about the sin, giving biblical guidance in resolving the question.

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An Open Letter to Someone Having an Affair (Part 2)

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  • Brad Hambrick

This article is part two of a letter addressed to an imaginary person involved in an affair. The article is written to give guidance to those who have to give pastoral direction when dealing with a believer caught in adultery.

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An Open Letter to Someone Having an Affair (Part 1)

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  • Brad Hambrick

This article is part one of a letter addressed to an imaginary person involved in an affair. The article is written to give guidance to those who have to give pastoral direction when dealing with a believer caught in adultery.

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Counselling after Adultery

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  • Dave Dunham

This article offers some insights into counselling the betrayed spouse after adultery has been discovered. It focuses especially on the issue of forgiveness, and the conditions under which it is to be given.

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No Time for Widows?

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  • Carol Cornish

Not all widows are aged, but most are. This article offers insights and advice to help believers as well as those providing pastoral care minister more effectively to widows.

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Dementia: A Biblical Approach for Care

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  • Lucy A. Moll

This article gives advice to those who are providing counseling or pastoral care to believers who have dementia, and their families.

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A Puritan Primer: The ABCs of Counselling the Aged

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  • Donn Northup

This article draws on the writing of Puritan pastor, Richard Baxter, to offer advice, in “alphabetical order,” to those who must provide pastoral care to the aging.

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Is Homesickness Only for Camp Kids?

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  • Carol Cornish

This article encourages the church to take note of senior members, and to care for them well.

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Hope for the Weary: Seeing the Light of Love in the Darkness of Dementia

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  • Julie Ganschow

The author offers words of encouragement from God’s Word to those who care for people suffering from dementia.

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Codependent or Selfless?

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  • Julie Ganschow

This article makes a distinction between codependency, which shields an addict from the consequences of his choices, and genuine selflessness on the part of a loved one who wants to care for a child or spouse who is addicted.

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Referring an Addict for Detox and Medical Care

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  • Mark Shaw

This article provides insight and guidance for those who have to make decisions about referring addicts for medical and detox care.

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Shepherding People Struggling with Addictions (Part 4)

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  • Todd Hardin

This article discusses the heart of the counsellor who is called to minister to those struggling with addictions. It explains how counselling reveals areas of sins in the counsellor's own life as well.

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The Heart of Addiction (Part 3)

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  • Julie Ganschow

This article discusses the true nature of addictions—a worship disorder—and encourages and equips the church on how to help addicted believers.

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Addiction: A Super-Sized Problem? (Part 2)

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  • Mark Shaw

This article considers the tendency of counsellees to super-size their addiction issues. The author explains that these issues, though complicated, are not more than what Christ and the local church can address. The family of faith needs to biblically address the various components that drive the choices behind the addiction.

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Three Healthy Tensions in Porn Addiction Groups (Part 1)

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  • Luke Gilkerson

This article offers counsel for churches with recovery groups for those with an addiction to pornography. It explains that churches will face a number of tensions in this regard that need to be anticipated and navigated wisely.

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Addictive Habits: Changing for Good

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  • Dave Dunham

This article is excerpted from a devotional book, and speaks a word of encouragement to those who are addicted.

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What Do Addicts Need from You?

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  • Andy Farmer

This article offers basic and clear advice to those who love and care for people who are addicts. It does not provide an extensive list of specific actions, but guides the caregiver in his or her approach.

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Secular Psychology, Christian Psychology, and Christian Counselling

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  • Sam R. Williams

This academic article opens up, and puts into biblical perspective, the fundamental issues involved in the relationship between secular psychology and biblical counselling. It is an essay about how Christian or biblical counseling ought to be taught.

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In Your Light Do We See Light

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  • Pat Quinn

This article spells out some of the basic differences between various forms of secular psychology, and the perspective and approach of biblical counselling. He shows that although secular psychology is in many ways fundamentally flawed, biblical counselors can make use of things that secular psychology has recognized.

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If Christian Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Works, Why Isn’t It an Ally?

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  • Nate Brooks

The author shows that behavioral therapy, even when called "Christian" and used by Christian psychologists, does not rely on the crucified Christ and the life-giving Spirit. While it may be effective in altering behavior, it is not genuine Christian heart-changing counseling.

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The ABCs of Ministering to the Situationally Depressed Person

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  • Todd Hardin

Using Psalm 42 and 43, the author describes "situational depression," and offers help for those who are depressed because of difficult things they experience.

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Cultivating Churches That Care for the Downcast

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  • Jimmy Carter

This article encourages churches to develop a culture in which ministry is provided for those who are suffering with depression.

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Six Disciplines of a Depressed Soul (Part 4)

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  • Paul Tautges

How does one navigate through spiritual depression? This article suggests that personal discipline is required in six critical areas.

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Depression: Catastrophizing and Elijah (Part 2)

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  • Pat Quinn

What exactly is catastrophizing? This article explains what this is in relation to depression. It provides a biblical example of catastrophizing in the story of Elijah fleeing Jezebel after the contest of the prophets of Baal (1 Kings 19). Finally, it offers a response to catastrophizing: recognize, refocus, pray, and love.

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Depression and Imbalanced Approaches (Part 1)

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  • Lilly Park

This article on depression explains different approaches to counselling depressed people. It dwells particularly on imbalanced approaches that either oversimplify or complicate the issue. It ends by showing how counselling can give hope to the depressed.

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The Depressed Soul's Cry to God (Part 4)

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  • Paul Tautges

This article discusses the prayer of Psalm 13 as a model of prayer for those who are depressed.

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I’m Thinking about Going to the Doctor for Depression Meds – What Is a Compassionate, Comprehensive Response? (Part 3)

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  • Bob Kelleman

This article considers an appropriate response to someone thinking about getting medication for depression. It's a response of compassion, one that wants to also help such individuals make an informed decision. The author also considers Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, and argues that even "Christian CBT" is insufficient.

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