I did my best to narrow it down! I’ve kept a record of the books I read each year for several years now, but this year I was surprised when I looked back at my list for three reasons: I began sixty-two books and finished fifty. I’m not a slow reader, and I’m also not…
“You can engage in something not realizing you’re advocating or supporting falsehood.” If you or someone you know has ever been labeled with a psychiatric label (ADD, ADHD, PTSD, Bipolar I or II, etc.), or given medication for any of these, or for anxiety or depression, etc., please set aside some time to watch this…
Your presuppositions are showing…As biblical counselors who desire for our counselees to consider our counsel, are we willing to consider the appeal from our brothers and sisters in Christ, co-laborers in a shared calling, to exhort us in a similar manner that Paul did Timothy to “Keep a close watch on yourself and your teaching,…
I’m a mom of five. Parenting a passel of children has been the most sanctifying experience for me by a long shot! Parenting in every generation is hard. However, parents seem to be less equipped today than in past generations. I regularly encounter parents steered by their culture, their children, and their passions or those…
So often, we are self-saboteurs. We want peace in our homes but snap at everyone around us. We desire close friendship but are easily offended. We want our husbands to love us, but we walk around with a contemptuous spirit. Our mouths speak out of the abundance of the heart (Luke 6:45), as does our…
Discernment has fallen on hard times. In our times, it seems that anything goes, even within the Church. Sadly, many Christians don’t understand discernment or how to practice and grow it. Perhaps some of us even have negative connotations with the word, thanks to “discernment bloggers.” And yet, discernment is something every Christian is called…
As biblical counselors, we don’t often think of our counseling as a ministry of hospitality, but it’s a defining characteristic! We have the unique privilege and role of welcoming strangers and the estranged into friendship with the Lord, a costly yet joyful ministry…Continue reading at the Biblical Counseling Coalition.
“For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.” 2 Peter 1:5-7 At the outset of the year, setting resolutions or goals ambitiously is…
I originally wrote this post in 2010. I’m republishing it because it’s a pertinent topic that I hope will gain more traction in conversations among Christians! I want to be consistent across the board. If all of Christ is for all of life, I want to see Christ glorified in every realm of my life. …
One of the Tarr kids’ favorite pastimes is “hang riding” up the driveway. We have a long gravel driveway, and if it’s been a while since grading, crater-like divots develop, and it’s a real wild, bumpy ride. My kids call these divots speed bumps, and the faster I go over them, the better because one…
“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.” Romans 12:2 (ESV) Etched in my mind is RC Sproul’s voice saying, “Chili con carne,” quite forcefully as he taught what…
How many times in the last year and a half since this universal trial we’re all facing called COVID and global unrest has been upon us have you found yourself anxious, angry, scared, or fighting against it in your heart? Or, have you responded to it all with a tranquil heart—one that is at rest, trusting…
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