Domestic Abuse: Recognize, Respond, Rescue
What hope is there when a loved one’s marriage is abusive? One spouse seeking to control and dominate the other is a prevalent problem, and even Christian marriages are not safe from it. But how can...
View ArticleCaring for One Another: 8 Ways to Cultivate Meaningful Relationships
Imagine . . . an interconnected group of people who entrust themselves to each other. You can speak of your pain, and someone responds with compassion and prayer. You can speak of your joys, and...
View ArticleSchizophrenia: A Compassionate Approach
Someone you care about has been impacted by schizophrenia. Maybe you are just coming to terms with the diagnosis and wonder what it means for your loved one, for you, and for your family. What is the...
View ArticleHelping Your Anxious Child: What to Do When Worries Get Big
When your child is anxious, it’s easy to get anxious too. You want to help your child regain a sense of peace and safety, but how can you? This world is big and scary and sometimes our worries get big...
View ArticleChild Proof: Parenting by Faith, Not Formula
As a freedom-over-formula parenting book for moms, dads, and caregivers of all ages, Child Proof provides biblical insight and encouragement for readers who want to parent by faith. As an experienced...
View ArticleReal Change
Every honest Christian knows the need for change. But how to get there? How do you move forward from struggles both big and small? And how does our faith in God impact our everyday thoughts, feelings,...
View ArticleUntangling Emotions
Our emotions are complex. Some of us seem able to ignore our feelings, while others feel controlled by them. But most of us would admit that we don’t always know what to do with how we feel. The Bible...
View ArticleOvereating: When Enough Isn’t Enough
If we’re honest, most of us can remember eating more than we need. More often than we might care to admit, we finish a meal knowing we’ve had too much. Why do we push the limits of our food...
View ArticleOpiate-Related Disorders: Helping Those Who Struggle
Is someone you love struggling in the grip of opioid addiction? Is the person you once knew now obscured by a fog of half-truths, unfamiliar behaviors, and outright lies? As the opioid crisis in the...
View ArticleSafe and Sound: Standing Firm in Spiritual Battles
Safe and Sound by best-selling author David Powlison guides readers to see the normality of their struggles with themselves, the world around them, and the powers of darkness. Counselors tend to be...
View ArticleJBC Must Reads: On Anxiety
The mission of the Journal of Biblical Counseling (JBC) is to develop clear thinking and effective practice that faithfully brings God’s Word to bear on the problems of daily living. Over the decades,...
View ArticleDigital JBC Must Reads: On Anxiety
The mission of the Journal of Biblical Counseling (JBC) is to develop clear thinking and effective practice that faithfully brings God’s Word to bear on the problems of daily living. Over the decades,...
View ArticleCreated to Draw Near: Our Life as God’s Royal Priests
Many Christians prefer to keep God at a safe distance–a distant God makes fewer demands. They imagine God has rules just for the sake of obedience, missing the point that God delights in making them...
View ArticleA Small Book for the Anxious Heart
Fear and anxiety are chronic struggles for many people that are only intensifying and increasing. Best-selling author Edward T. Welch shares the comfort and peace of Jesus in fifty brief readings for...
View ArticleA Student’s Guide to Anxiety
We all know the feeling. That nervous, jittery, tense feeling that tells you that something bad is just ahead. Anxiety can be overwhelming. But the Bible has plenty to say to people who are anxious....
View ArticleIs It Abuse?: A Biblical Guide to Identifying Domestic Abuse and Helping Victims
God does not intend for marriage to be a place of oppression. Providing practical tools and exercises, biblical counselor Darby Strickland prepares potential helpers to pick up on cues that could point...
View ArticleJBC Must Reads: On Conflict
The mission of the Journal of Biblical Counseling (JBC) is to develop clear thinking and effective practice that faithfully brings God’s Word to bear on the problems of daily living. Over the decades,...
View ArticleBuilding Bridges: Biblical Counseling Activities for Children and Teens
Knowing how to approach children and teens in counseling can be a challenge. Learning to enter into their world and draw them out can sometimes feel impossible. But with Julie Lowe’s Building Bridges—a...
View ArticleA Painful Past – Healing and Moving Forward
Do you live with regret? Have others sinned terribly against you? If it has been hard for you to recover from events in your past, the possibility that you could live well in the present may seem...
View ArticleHelping Children with Shame: Resting in God’s Approval
Shame is the experience of feeling unacceptable, less than others, or different. Children often experience the sting of this particular sense of failing to measure up. Whether this heavy feeling comes...
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