When Anxiety Takes Over

By Friday, October 27, 2017 Anxiety, Counseling, Ministry, Missions, Pastors, Soul Care, Spiritual Growth Permalink

Today's guest post is written by Pastor, Professor and Missions Mobilizer Dave Shive. He is the author of Night Shift, released in April 2001. Based on Psalm 40:1-3, Night Shift is an easily understood and thoroughly biblical explanation of how God uses affliction to prepare His children for greater usefulness to Him. Since 2009, Dave and Kathy have served as full time mission mobilizers on staff with Frontier Ventures (formerly the US Center for World Mission) in Pasadena, CA. Dave and Kathy have been married for 49 years and live in Catonsville, MD. They have three married children, Dan, Mike, and Becky and are the proud grandparents of 11 grandchildren. You ...

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How Discipleship Ministries Enhance Counseling Outcomes

By Tuesday, October 24, 2017 Bible Study, Counseling, Discipleship, Ministries, Pastors, Relationships, Small Groups, Soul Care, Spiritual Growth Permalink

This post originally appeared in Careleader.org Jenna, a twenty-seven-year-old working professional, comes to see you initially for anxiety related to work. She shares with you that she’s been really stressed working sixty-plus hours a week and that it’s starting to take more of a toll on her. Over time, you learn that she has developed an online shopping addiction and accrued thousands of dollars of debt. She is also single and lonely and has become addicted to online porn. Over time, Jenna begins to discover some of the deeper heart issues related to her addictions and anxiety and slowly learns to ...

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Alive in Him: How Being Embraced by the Love of Christ Changes Everything [Book Review]

By Friday, October 6, 2017 Bible Study, Book Reviews, Christian Women, Ephesians, Small Groups, Soul Care, Spiritual Growth Permalink

How does God show His extravagant love for His people? What impact and implications does this love demonstrated through His Son’s death and resurrection have on the life of the redeemed soul? What does it look like to go from the walking dead to the walking dead made alive in Him? These are the in-depth questions Gloria Furman dives into as she takes the reader through the book of Ephesians in her book, Alive in Him: How Being Embraced by the Love of Christ Changes Everything. As she states in her intro, “studying Ephesians and its contents is not about making ...

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