Tag Archive | counseling
Treat depression like cancer: purposeful
I’ve not had cancer, though I do know cancer victims. It’s an insidious disease that robs people of life. My purpose here is not to make light of cancer, but to help people understand that there is another form of cancer eating away at people and the cure requires treatment that is just as aggressive [...]
He was 45; He only wanted to feel better
He was 45. He only wanted to feel better.. There’s really nothing I can add to this blog post. I discovered it when I learned that a blog post of my own had been linked from this one. I would encourage anyone and everyone to read it and take it to heart. We’re all called [...]
How can the church be more intentional?
I heard a very good message this morning in church that included a word typically not uttered by a pastor from the pulpit. In fact, the word he used could probably be listed among the top 10 words pastors are discouraged from using on Sunday morning. Suicide. The context was Judas at the end of [...]
It’s not the divorce, but the rejection that hurts the deepest
A little more than two years ago I experienced a pain unlike any other pain I’ve ever felt. The symptoms had been there for years leading up to this moment in time when my world went momentarily black and my knees bucked under me. The next 30 minutes was, quite literally, the most physically painful [...]
True friendship is priceless
I’d like to think that our human relationships are all counseling sessions of sorts. When a friend asks for our opinion on something or simply wants to vent aren’t we doing what Jesus called us to do by loving our neighbors as ourselves?
