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When Suffering Reaches the Limits of Your Endurance

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Three Keys to Help You Look Beyond Your Suffering

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Four Things You Must Know About Your Suffering

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The Purpose of Suffering Is to Grow Your Confidence In God

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Seven Tips to Help Your Friends Who Are Suffering

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How Paul Connected the Gospel to Personal Suffering

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Marriage Day 27 – Suffering Produces Strength

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Why We Should Embrace the Crucible Of Suffering

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Abuse, Suffering, and Other Painful Disappointments

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How to Connect the Gospel to Physical Suffering

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The Preface to My Book, Suffering Well

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Ep. 258 Suffering and Leadership, the Gifts You Need

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Marriage Day 26 – Crucible of Suffering: When Things Do Not Change

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When You Mix Suffering and Sovereignty Into Your Life

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The Whine Meter: I Want Life on My Own Terms

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How Do You Want to Suffer, With or Without God?

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How to Steward God’s Most Feared Blessing

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The Value of Your Suffering in Another Person’s Life

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Ep. 401 Living Well Requires a Transcendent View of Suffering

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The Number One Key to Endure a Relationship

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God Is An Extravagant Lover In Your Suffering

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Bringing God Down to My Level So I Can Argue With Him

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God Is Incrementally and Purposely Putting You To Death

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Sometimes God Makes You do Things You Don’t Want to Do

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Have You Ever Tried Manipulative Praying?

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Three Things To Know When Life Does Not Make Sense

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Why Does God Call Us to Suffer?

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Trusting God Is Good, But You Need More When Suffering Comes

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Just When You Thought Things Were Going Well

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Three Stages to the Christian Life. Where Are You?

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Ep. 444 Five Responses to “Why Did God Let My Baby Die?”

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“You Are Suffering, and I Am Glad” – Jesus

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How Can I Trust God When He Does Not Act the Way I Think?

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When God Whittles You Down to Size

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When God Does Not Come Through For You

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I Trusted God, and My Life Fell Apart

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Ep. 210 Six Non-negotiable Qualities of an Excellent Counselor

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Manipulating Others With the Things That Have Happened to You

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The Anniversary of the Worst Day of My Life

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The Reason God Wants You to Be a Fragile Jar of Clay

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The Problem with Cursing the Sun

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How to Respond When Blindsided While Doing Good

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Ep. 128 A Theology Of Suffering From Second Corinthians

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Why and How Does God Bless Us?

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What Are Your Expectations and How Do They Manage You?

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Ep. 460 Should I Bring a Baby Into Our Evil World?

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What’s Happening When I Won’t Forgive Someone?

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Mean Husbands, and Wives Who Want to Love Them

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The Practical Secret for Growing in Humility

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I Want to Talk You Out of Becoming a Christian

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Chapter Six: Our Common Faith-killers

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Chapter Seven: Working on Marriage Alone

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Deadbeat Husband – Wife Left to Ponder Her Future

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To Live the Resurrected Life, You Must Die—to Yourself

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“I Am Mad at God. There, I Said It.”

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You’re Only as Strong as That Which Provides the Most Hope

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Ep. 234 The Unintended But Helpful Benefit of Coronavirus

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Ep. 236 When Is It Right and Wrong to Disobey the Government?

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Reflective Study On Victimhood and the Need for Hope

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Experiencing Extraordinary Favor During Disappointment

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Ep. 217 My Husband Is Apathetic, How Do I Respond to Him?

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To Have Hope But Things Never Change May Lead to Despair

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I’m Angry at God Because He Did Not Help Me

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Letter to a Counselor, Counseling a Rebellious Teenager

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A Progression From Pain To Purpose

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Four Things You Must Know About Your Suffering

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Marriage Day 27 – Suffering Produces Strength

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Ep. 379 Hope in God Does Not Change Your Circumstances

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Recovering, Rejoicing, But Refusing to Forget the Pain

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Ep. 449 How to Motivate Christians to Stop Caring So Much

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The Uncomfortable Benefit of God Being Silent

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Chapter Eight: God Is Already There

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What Does “All Things Work Together for Good” Really Mean?

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Your Thoughts Reveal Your Functional Identity

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To Those Who Are Angry with God for the Life They Have

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How to Assess Yourself to See If You Are Mature

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The Destructive Force of Empathy, and Why You Need to Know

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I Am a Saved Legalist Who Struggles with Depression

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Four People Types Who Get Stuck In a Rut

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You Know Your Faith Is Real When

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The First and Unique Step to Solving Your Problems

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It Is Not Remotely Possible to Break God’s Heart

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Suffering and Leadership, the Gifts You Need

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Seven Things To Know When Living With a Harsh Husband

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The Danger Of Trying To Please God and Gain His Favor

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Ep. 194 The Cyclic Effect of Cynicism, and the Cure

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Marriage Day 26 – Crucible of Suffering: When Things Do Not Change

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Helping a Girl Who Longs for a Relationship with Her Mother

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Will You Please Help Me? I Do Not Like My Spouse Anymore

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12 Universal Assumptions You Can Make About People

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Ep. 410 How Can I Know a Person, Place, or Thing Won’t Disappoint Me?

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Cynicism Is a Response of the Disappointed

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When Christianity Disappoints You: The Death Of My Brother

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A Believing Believer Lives Practically What They Believe

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Revenge: When Evil Comes to You

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Ep. 82 Dave Furman Interview, Author Of “Being There”

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Mind Mapping How to Break Free from Porn Addiction – 2.0

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Ep. 232 Vaneetha Risner: The Scars That Have Shaped Me

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Connecting the Gospel to a God Who Is Silent

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Letter to God: I Need to Die; Will You Help Me?

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How to Know If Your Victimhood Has Become Your Identity

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If You Knew the Backstory, Would It Make Any Difference?

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God and the Bible Are Not All You Need to Change

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Three Peaks of Suffering

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Are You Characterized as a Thankful Person?

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Seven Tips to Help Your Friends Who Are Suffering

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How Can an Aging Wife Compete With Cyber Women?

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My Spouse Does Not See a Problem with Our Marriage

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When You Feel That God Is Not with You

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Is It Necessary to Use Biblical Categories to Problem-Solve?

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Three Mind Maps to Move You from Despair to Joy

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Pick an Enemy! Will You Do What Jesus Said: Love Them?

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The Terrible Lengths God Will Go to for Your Good

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These Five Words Are the Most Life-Altering You’ll Ever Believe

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The Surprising Truth of Why a Husband Devalues His Wife

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One Positive, Powerful Purpose for Your Disappointments

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Six Keys for Enduring an Unwanted Divorce

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A Practical Plan For You to Rise Above All Your Trouble

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Six Ways to Make the Most out of Counseling

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Psychiatric Drugs and Mass Shootings

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Ep. 337 Four Students Share Their Program Experience

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The Dangerous Dark Side of a Shared Belief System

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Surviving Adultery

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The Preface to My Book, Suffering Well

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Three Keys to Help You Look Beyond Your Suffering

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When Suffering Reaches the Limits of Your Endurance

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When God Hurls a Storm At You

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Loving God When You Don’t Get What You Want

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How to Connect the Gospel to Being Left Alone

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Ep. 380 Webinar: Connecting the Gospel to Everyday Life

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It’s Easier to Trust God When You’re In Control

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Can a Christian Divorce Another Christian For Abuse?

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Ep. 250 How to Tell If Too Much Social Media Is Bad for Your Soul

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God Is Not on Your Side: You’re on His Side, or You’re Not

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Interview With a Victim of Adultery

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Four Things to Know When Working through Abuse

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Should a Wife Submit To an Unrepentant Husband?

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Mean Wives, and Husbands Who Should Love Them

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Ep. 275 Counseling the Imposter’s Wife, a Student’s Case Study

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How to Fix Your Post-Salvation Fallenness

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How to Break the Power of Self When You Abide in Christ

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Ep. 405 Dr. Daniel Berger Discusses the New DSM-5-TR (Text Revision)

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A Rattled Confidence in Disappointments Is a Sign It Is from God

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I Met a Christian Who Refuses to Walk Away from His Sin

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Why Can’t I Have My Life the Way I Want It, on My Terms?

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What Are You to Do When God Does Not Respond Like You Hoped?

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Why the Term Emotional Abuse Is Unhelpful and Misleading

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Ep. 464 A Better Response to PTSD and Other Triggering Events

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Here Is a Useful Way to Connect the Gospel to Arguments

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Struggling With Sin Is One Way the Lord Strengthens You

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Today’s Christian Replaces Yesterday’s Negro and Gay Person

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Is God Harassing You?

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Here Is the Perfect Goal for Your Child and How to Do It

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You Must Know This Before You Counsel Anyone

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Ronda Rousey – a Need to Die Is a Lesson for All of Us

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Are You Supposed to Submit to Your Husband in Every Way?

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When a Child Gaslights a Parent

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Why You Can Trust God When He Withholds Your Desire

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Two Ways to See If You Are in the Faith

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Counseling Today: Standing on Jay Adams’ Shoulders

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Mind Mapping How to Change from the Inside Out

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The Victim of an Unwanted Divorce Learns to Forgive

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Why All Other Psychologies Bow at the Foot of the Bible

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Bitterness Is Self-Induced Poisoning of the Soul

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Learning How to Trust the Author of Your Story

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Ep. 233 Coronavirus: God, Our Dwelling Place In Uncertain Times

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Ep. 230 When the Integrationist and Biblical Counselor Are Right

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A Tempting Facade for Defense That Further Enslaves the Abused

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Ep. 227 The Painful Problem of Letting Go of Something You Love

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Ep. 326 Julie Hansen, an Angel Sent to Our Ministry

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Ep. 47 Should a Pastor Beat and Abuse His Wife?

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Pre-forgiveness Is Essential Before You Can Genuinely Forgive

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Responding to Friends Who Do Things That Make You Uncomfortable

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Learning How to Take All Your Bad Thoughts Captive

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A Cry For the Victims Of Sexual Abuse

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Will You Help Me? My Ex-spouse Is Ruining Our Children

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What Is Discipleship? How Do You Do It? Why Does It Matter?

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I’ll Do My Own Thing Since God Does Not Have My Back

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Eternal God Is the Beginning and the End at Once

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Beyond Your Ability Is Right Where God Wants You

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Being Honest about ADHD

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How to Love a Difficult Person Without Them Controlling You

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Every Person Who Withholds the Truth Is Not Lying

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When the Slave Battles His Master for Ultimate Control

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Case Study: She Buried Her Son 10 Years Ago

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How to Use Your Imagination to Help People Love God

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Case Study: Counseling the Un-counsel-able

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How to Care for the Professional Victim

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Ep. 218 An Oral History of Our Ministry: 2008-2019

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Hiding Behind Grace To Avoid The Hard Things

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I Had Breakfast With a Prostitute

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Is Your Church a Preaching Center or a Discipleship Community?

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What Qualities Do You Look for in a Pastor?

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Seventeen Quick and Dirty Tips for Building a Relationship

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Why It’s Not Wrong to Expect Love in Return

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How to Live Your Best Alien Life Today

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Ep. 222 Practical Time Management Tips For Busy People

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Parenting Day 19 – If You Could Export Only One Thing To Your Child

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Day 28 – Teen Devotion: The Reason to Love

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How to Respond to a Gossiper Who Wants Me to Do More

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Storyboarding Marriage—From Dysfunction to Restoration

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Day 15 – Teen Devotion: While You’re Waiting, Do These

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How to Make a Good Decision About Anything “In Faith”

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We Are Less Than Four Feet from 6.64 Billion Hearts

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Connecting the Gospel to Perfectionism

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Are You a Tomb Dweller or a Resurrected Christian?

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Rick, Why Won’t You Counsel Another Way?

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How to Care for Clueless People

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Ep. 146 A Different Kind of “Happy Ever After” Marriage

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When Obedience Collides With My Emotions

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The Dynamics of the Old and New Selves

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The Number One Reason You Need Someone in Your Life

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Case Study: Don’t Tell Anyone I’m In Counseling

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Ep. 270 Nontraditional Ways to Mobilize to Make a Difference

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The Sobering Truth for Why Some People Do Not Change

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Did God Want Clemson to Beat Alabama?

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The Remarkable Way God Uses Your Brokenness to Heal You

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The One Thing We Must Do: Step Down from Our Thrones

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A Profound Reason to Love That Difficult Person In Your Life

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Ep. 266 When Biblical Counselors Don’t Act like Biblical Counselors

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Here Is Some Motivation to Love That Pain In Your Neck

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Are You Happy? Time for a Post-Christmas Follow-Up

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Ep. 442 Eight Responses to the Spouse Whose Spouse Left

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Do You Understand the Point of Your Trouble?

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Case Study: Mable’s Search for Self-esteem

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Ep. 259 How Does a Parent Maintain a Two-Family Home?

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A Few Thoughts On an Unchangeable Situation

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Engagement Without Understanding Leads to Violence

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Twenty Questions When You’re Hurt By Your Church

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The Wisdom In Giving Your Friends Room To Sin

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Ep. 256 Joyce Saddi from Lebanon Interviews Rick Thomas

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The Insecure Wife Who Lives With a Harsh Husband

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How Your Unguarded Strength Can Become a Double Weakness

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How Do You Respond When Abuse and Submission Collide?

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Ep. 290 Learning How to Respond to a World You Don’t Like

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When the Abuse You See Clouds Biblical Interpretations

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Does Your Spouse Know You Are For Him?

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How Our Behaviors May Push Others Away from Christ

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Why Each Person Needs Care According to Their Uniqueness

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Is It Wrong to Show Emotion When Helping Someone?

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Ep. 478 What to Do After Two People Forgive Each Other

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Knowing What to Do But Not Doing It Is a Problem

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Ep. 50 My Passive Husband Won’t Lead. Should I Let Things Go?

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Ep. 296 Practical Advice for Those Struggling with Deep Hurts

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Post-Traumatic Stress Is Not a Disorder

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Ep. 465 What Does It Mean to Live a Gospel-centered Life?

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Three Tips For Moving Forward When Things Are Hard

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Mind Mapping the Best Marriage Help You’ll Ever Find

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The Need to Forgive Even If You Don’t Reconcile

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Ep. 413 The Problem with Wounded Theology and Victim Identity

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Understanding Someone Is Work, But the Only Way to Build Well

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Ep. 412 Do We Have to Twist Scripture to Help Victims of Abuse?

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These Six Things Want to Control Your Life

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Ep. 453 Speaking to the Injustices in Our Culture

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Diagnosing Disappointment with God When Trouble Comes

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Ep. 37 Black Christian Talks about Black Lives

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20 Things I Would Tell My 20-Year-Old Self

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Do You Really Want to Know What God Is Thinking?

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Ep. 36 Why I Don’t Align With Nouthetic Or Biblical Counseling

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Four Essential Elements To Live A Well-Grounded Life

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Ep. 177 An Exceptional Marriage Book for You

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Ep. 52 Twelve Characteristics of a Good Counselor

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Is It Wrong for Christians to Have Fun in a Dark World?

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One Essential Quality Of an Effective Wife

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Ep. 209 Stop Criticizing Your Spouse and Friends On Facebook

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Now That I Want Forgiveness, How Do I Handle My Past Sins?

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A Weak View of Love Will Damage Your Relationships

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The Terrifying Call of God on Our Lives Seems Comically Cruel

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Thinking of Yourself as Victim Is One of the Worst Things You Can Do

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12 Tips to Help a Person Who Is Angry with Someone

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Ep. 75 How to Respond to Gossip and Broken Relationships

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There Are No His or Her Problems In Marriage

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What Does It Mean to Boast in Your Weakness?

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Seven-Step Template For Change When Trouble Comes

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Ep. 196 Understanding the Exhausting Work of Being a Pastor

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Submitting Your Life to the Foolishness of God

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How to Bring the Gospel of Hope to a Bad Marriage

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Ep. 315 Dangerous Challenge for Standing on Your Convictions

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Ep. 314 It Takes Courage to Understand a Person the Right Way

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How to Orient the Inwardly Curved Heart to God and Others

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Confession of a Former Cigarette Smoker

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The Power of Unforgiveness When Used as a Weapon

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How to Solve the Mystery to Enjoy the Abundant Life

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Ep. 63 Does Submission Mean My Husband Has Final Say?

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To Recover from Broken Expectations, You Need to Know This

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If You Exported One Thing To Your Child, What Would It Be?

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Hope and Practical Help for Those Struggling with Depression

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When Unforgiveness Lingers, Bitterness Enters

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Men Are Tempted to Lust – Women Are Tempted to Be Lusted After

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Ep. 429 When Aging Parents No Longer Walk with God

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How Do You Want to Suffer, With or Without God?

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When God Whittles You Down to Size

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Three Things To Know When Life Does Not Make Sense

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Living in the Parallel

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What Does “All Things Work Together for Good” Really Mean?

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The Problem with Cursing the Sun

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How to Respond When Blindsided While Doing Good

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While You’re Waiting, Do These Eight Things

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Number-One Reason You Need Someone

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Have You Ever Tried Manipulative Praying?

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What Happens to Me When I Won’t Forgive Someone?

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How to Steward God’s Most Feared Blessing

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How Can I Trust God When He Does Not Act the Way I Think?

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You Know Your Faith Is Real When