Character

Knowing Christ

Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People “Maturity is not merely something you do with your mind (although that is an important element of spiritual maturity). It is about how you live your life. It is...

That’s so Funny it Hurts!?

  Thomas Carlyle despised it: "Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it".[12] Fyodor Dostoyevsky, on the other hand, recognized in it a cry of pain: Sarcasm, he said, was "usually...

Stop Sign Moments

    Have you ever been on the road to work, thinking you have plenty of time to get there, and construction traffic stops you? A man greets you with a bright colored vest and has firm grasp on a stop sign. There is one lane of traffic ahead, and your journey...

Best policy “Honesty”?

A prevalent rebuttal to advice or a suggestion made in session when a counselee feels forced to make an adjustment in their attitude or behavior that is both hurting them, their spouse, or other relationship is “that’s not me” or “that’s not who I am.”  It is their...