New - Handling Anger Constructively
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Anger often brings destruction to many marriages. How do you deal with an angry spirit? Here are some important Biblical guidelines.
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New - Choosing Constructive Conflict
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Conflict in any marriage is inevitable. How should we approach it? What do we do with conflict? How can we respond in a way that will make a difference? |
New - Coping with Conflict Biblically
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How do you handle conflict in your marriage? Here are some very important principles that will aid you, your loved ones, and others you might want to help. |
New - Anger, a Serious Thing
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When is anger sinful? What is "anger" anyway? Did GOd give us the emotions we have in life? What should we do with anger? |
New - The Danger of Unforgiven Bitterness
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Conflict in any marriage is inevitable. How should we approach it? What do we do with conflict? How can we respond in a way that will make a difference? |
Paving the Way for Change
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Here is a one page presentation to help the counselee face some very specific aspects about their problems... To use for home work, or counseling session. . |
The Trouble is with ME
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Selfishness is the greatest single enemy of a happy marriage and my world is out of balance. I will eventually destroy my marriage, my job, my sanity, my family as my selfishness rules me . |
The Cross and Self
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The centrality of the sin problem is the problem of love of self. We serve our selfish, willful ways and desires. We often worship another God rather than the God of heaven... that is, we kneel at the shrine of self -- there we serve a “pitied, petted, and pampered self-life . |
Maintaining a Forgiving Heart
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We Look at Three Aspects of Maintaining Forgiveness. You must heed as you learn to forgive and to love again, you will be engaged in a spiritual battle. You must get your thoughts right by making sure they are aligned with God's Word. |
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Lesson
on Addictions_1
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Addictions
abound... why? What can we do about them? Understanding types
of addictions; addictive behavior; strongholds and bondage. |
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Lesson
on Addictions_2
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Do
we understand what addictions are? Are you addicted? Can you
help someone else?
Recognize the seduction of addiction; loss of control; steps
to recovery.
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Lesson
on Anger
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A
personal study worksheet with Biblical answers in the battle
with anger. It is said that 80% of all people have a predisposition
to anger. Anger is a sinful practice that many people battle.
Why are so many angry? What do you do with anger? Here are helps
for you. |
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Lesson
on Bitterness
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Bitterness
and resentment are deep rooted problems for many people. Why
are they so serious and how can you help the person caught in
this trap? A thorough study including: elements of bitterness
& resentment; what bitterness brings; how to resolve bitterness.
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Lesson
on Brokenness
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God
puts a premium on brokenness. What does brokenness mean to you
and to those you love? Is brokenness valuable or necessary?
This study involves the following: brokenness in conversion;
elements of brokenness; a meek, quiet, submission to God. |
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Lesson
on Depression
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An
indepth study on the subject of depression, these lessons give
you a Biblical perspective of depression and discouragement;
the causes; examples; answers. |
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Lesson
on Restoration
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God
commands the spiritual person to restore others to a right standing
with God and with people. How can you fulfill this command?
How can you counseling for restoration and change? Here are
the challenges and helps. |
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A
Model for Counseling
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How
do you confront, bring about change and actually understand
and deal with root problems and not just some symptoms. |
Meeting
Needs through Counseling
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Here
are helps toward conducting interviews, basics in counseling
and some general principles that will aid any who counsel. |
Marriage
- 1st Interview for Counseling
a Married Couple
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Questionnaire
to use in first counseling interview with a married couple. |
Evaluation
Questions for Married Couples
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Questions
to stimulate discussion and understanding of one another as
husbands and wives. . . in eight different areas of life. |
Chart
- Why we do what we do and feel as we feel.
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Our
actions are the result of what we have programmed into our lives,
and what we have said to ourselves about the circumstances,
events, and people in our lives (thus how we have related, responded).
What do you understand about programming -- self-talk-- attitudes
-- emotions -- and behavior? How do these relate or inter-relate? |
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Comparisons
of Counseling Philosophies
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Few
people realize that there are over 10,000 different ideas in
the field of secular counseling, and over 250 different therapeutic
methods. The whole field is in a state of flux... constantly
changing. New methods, theories, or ideas of how to counsel
come on the scene regularly. It is obvious that it is a very
unscientific field. Here are some things to guide you! |
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Discipling
our Children
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One
of the areas of greatest neglect is the discipling of our
own children. We ought to read and study Matthew 28:18-20
often as we see clearly in the great commission that we are
to Ňteach all thingsÓ and this demands discipling. We ought
to be concerned about discipling our own youth and children.
Their very future depends upon our consistency in molding
their lives for Christ.
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Problem
of Loneliness
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Katherine
Barrett in the magazine, Ladies Home Journal in 1983 wrote the
following: "In a society where most people live in impersonal
cities or suburbs, where electronic entertainment often replaces
one-to-one conversation, where people move from job to job,
state to state and marriage to marriage, loneliness has become
an epidemic." There is anguish is loneliness. Far too many spouses
are lonely on their own roof. What are some answers to loneliness? |
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Pastoral
Counseling Model
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Counseling
is a ministry primarily by the pastor provided through the local
church to his people because God has called him to be an overseer
and a shepherd. In order to feed ChristŐs sheep, individual
care must be given. When the sheep have needs, the pastor is
to supply them. If they are spiritually hungry, suffering, needing
wisdom or direction -- it is his responsibility to seek to meet
those needs. (See John 21:15-17.) |
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Does
Mental Illness Exist?
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This
is a subject that has long been a battle field. Back in the
1960's mental illness became an answer to many kinds of sins,
excesses, and problems of mankind. What does God say about it
in comparison to what the world's view might be? There are so
many different ideas. . . what should we believe? |
Forgiving Is The Critical Need
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We too easily reconstruct the hurts and hold on to grudges. What does it mean to forgive fully and completely? Without forgiveness how can healing and reconciliation take place?
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More About the Conscience
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Having a clear conscience is so important to personal daily victory and a walk of peace and joy. Having a conscience that prompts us, urges us, and can be used of the Holy Spirit to help direct us is very important.
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Patience in the Midst of Suffering
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Impatience is a mark of unbelief, immaturity and the control of the flesh. God desires that we will learn patience and thus experience growth and blessing. Satan uses our impatience to bring further sin into our lives.
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