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March Madness Bracket of Integrity

By on March 12, 2012 in Counseling, Current Events

This came up last year…is it legit to use pragmatism to enter multiple brackets into a March Madness contest? I’m a firm believer in integrity and that makes me a one bracket man. Now don’t get me wrong…go ahead and enter that bracket into as many contests as you want, however, it is no demonstration of integrity to have more than one bracket.

Case and point: I have earned two entries into the March Madness event we are doing at school. I will not and have no intention of using my second bracket. It simply does not demonstrate integrity to do so.

So who is with me? Who stands for integrity?

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HELP! I Can’t Forgive!

By on March 1, 2012 in Books, Counseling

What is one of the most common refrains heard in homes, relationships, churches, and even our culture at large? “I can’t forgive!” The struggle to forgive someone who has wronged us is universal. What is the answer? A fresh look at the gospel!

My friend and colleague, Pastor Jim Newcomer (we call him PJ), has just contributed this helpful little volume to the “Living in a Fallen World” series published by DayOne. There are a variety of helpful booklets in this series that any family would do well to own. Not only are these practical resources for you but all also practical resources your church should have available. The best part is that they are very inexpensive.

You can find the book available from from Amazon right about $3.50.

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What is Biblical Counseling?

By on September 23, 2011 in Counseling

I recently went to the chairman of our biblical counseling department, Dr. Jim Juvinall, and asked him for a 50-75 word definition of biblical counseling. Of course, like most people tasked to give such a short and simple definition he gave me both the short and the long version. I thought this was helpful so I wanted to share with you today.

What is “Biblical Counseling”? Maybe in its simplest form we could define it as “Biblical counseling is Christians doing what God instructs us to do as Christians—love God and love others. We love God and love others by using the Scriptures to help “anyone caught in any transgression” by helping them in restoration (Gal 6:1). This all happens in a spirit of gentleness patterned after the life and examples of Christ. Biblical counseling is God’s people doing what they are called to do.” What does that look like lived out relative to biblical counseling?
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Counseling One Another

By on July 14, 2011 in Counseling

Every so often I want to draw my readers to new resources and today I want to point you to a great new biblical counseling blog, Counseling One Another. Counseling One Another is run by my pastor friend Paul Tautges. Paul has been the pastor of Immanuel Bible Church in Sheybogan, WI for almost 20 years. He is the father of 10 children, passionate about counseling, an author, and teaches regularly in a variety of graduate programs.

One of the things I appreciate about Paul is his passion for the Word and his passion to help people. Since Paul teaches in the graduate program where I work, the Lord has given us occasion to work together for a couple of years. I commend Paul’s blog and books to you and I hope that you are served as well by them as I have been.

Paul was recently interviewed by Tim Challies and David Murray. You can get that interview here.

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