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How do you enjoy your family and the ministry?

holiding child's handQuestion from a reader:

I’m a full-time youth pastor with four beautiful kids and an incredibly supportive wife. It is so hard to juggle ministry and family and do it well. As someone who has reached the other side, and now with grandkids, does it get easier? How did you find the energy and time to really enjoy the kids AND the ministry?

Answer from Randy Alcorn:

It did get easier as the kids got older, and more when they launched out into the world on their own, and most of all, of course, when they got married. Yet ...

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Counseling With Suffering People

Counseling With Suffering People

The Journal of Biblical Counseling • Winter 2003

 

I begin with five assumptions. Without them, what I have to say about counseling and suffering will not stand.

1. Counseling is conversational exultation in the manifold mercies of God.

2. Mutual counseling is a normative event in the conversations and relationships of the body of Christ.

3. The aim of true counseling is the glory of God through Jesus Christ.

4. God is most glorified in our lives when we are most satisfied in Him.

5. Suffering is a universal human experience, designed by God for His glory ...

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Bible and Psychology

Many conservative Protestants do not see the sufficiency of Scripture for the cure of souls. Typically, "spiritual" matters are split off from "psychological, emotional, relational" matters.

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Pastor-Teacher or Super-Counselor?

"What's it like to be a counselor?"

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