Counseling
What You Need to Know About Forgiveness
Friday, January 7th, 2011What a wonderful word! Yet, what does it mean? How do you grant forgiveness; and, for what? As much as Christians talk about forgiveness, you’d think they could tell you all about it. Yet, there is hardly one in a thousand who can give sound, Biblical answers to the questions above. While this pamphlet doesn’t [...]
Self Esteem
Friday, January 7th, 2011What is self esteem? Most people have a feeling about themselves that is based on the circumstances they find themselves in at any given moment. Most people would define self esteem as how they feel about themselves. It is usually thought of as a combination between the successes and failures a person has in their [...]
The First Three Beatitudes
Friday, January 7th, 2011The first beatitude is “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” This poor in spirit has nothing to do with wealth or riches. It is an attitude and recognition of who we are with respect to the Almighty God in Heaven. In Matthew Henry’s commentary he says,”this poverty of [...]
The Exaltation of Self
Friday, January 7th, 2011Introduction The root of all of the many problems that need earnest contending is somehow related to the exaltation of self; people wanting to lift self up in the place where God alone should occupy. It is at the root of people struggling with the wrong message and wrong issue that they are trying to [...]
Most Biblically based ministry
Friday, January 7th, 2011There are many organizations that minister to men and women struggling with sexual sin, biblically. Some organizations are run by Christians but are psychologically based. They use scripture to prove a point, but their basic foundation is upon man’s wisdom, not God’s. Some are based on the Bible and use some methods from psychology and [...]
Pure Life Ministries
Friday, January 7th, 2011Pure Life Ministries is located in Dry Ridge, KY their web address is http://www.purelifeministries.org/ . They have been in ministry since 1987. They provide several services: Live-In Program The most intense and involved counseling Pure Life Ministries offers comes through our Live-In Program (6-12 months), conducted on the PLM campus in Kentucky. The godly and [...]
Foundation of Crisis Counseling
Friday, January 7th, 2011Counselors dealing with crisis in the life of another need a foundation to base their counseling on. This foundation must be firm and unshakable. What does this foundation look like? What makes up this foundation and why? I hope to shed some light on these issues. We will first need to define some terms that [...]