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Conversational Counseling
by Known Ministries
Conversational Counseling is where discipleship and counseling meet. Each season we help you apply biblical truths to your everyday life and to the lives of those around you.After decades of having these conversations in the counseling room and side by side over coffee with friends, we really believe that every single thing we’ve learned is useful within family, with your friends, at your work, with your neighbors and at your church.For free visuals and discussion questions for this podcast, sign up at knownministries.org. Known Ministries is Alex Kocher and Brenda Payne.
Episodes
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S14 Ep. 2 / Finding Peace When Your Child Doesn’t Change with Dawn Ward
>> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! << What do you do when the people you love most in your life are struggling with addiction? This is the question Dawn Ward navigated every day for two decades as…
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S14 Ep. 1 / How to Leave an Abusive Marriage and Stay a Christian with Leslie Vernick
>> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! << Is divorce ever an option? What’s the difference between a disappointing marriage and a destructive one? Does the Church ever harm rather than help vulnerable women...
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S13 Ep. 5 Tool / How to Prevent Growing Apart
>> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! << How do you create a culture of flourishing in your marriage when you both bring different stories, preferences and goals? No matter how similar to our partner we...
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S13 Ep. 5 / Living for Heaven when Marriage is Hard
>> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! << Every day, we feel the weight of the brokenness in our world. Brokenness that strains our relationships. It can be hard for us to believe the best days are ahead.…
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S13 Ep. 4 Tool / How to Rebuild Trust in Marriage
>> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! << Brokenness and ruptures in relationships are inevitable. We live in a world where sin has distorted our relationships. But because Jesus conquered sin and death,...
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S13 Ep. 4 / The "Secret" for a Lasting Marriage
>> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! << Do you worry that your spouse sees but doesn’t accept you? Do you feel insecure in the relationship? When sin entered the world through the Fall, God’s good design...
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S13 Ep. 3 Tool / How to Fight Fair in Your Marriage
>> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! << How do you handle conflict? Do you face it head-on or does it make you want to leave the room? Do you prefer not to address it and instead do nice things for your...
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S13 Ep. 3 Tool / Fighting for Marriage After the Fall
>> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! << Some days we feel like we can handle the stressors in our lives. Other days it feels like if one more thing happens, we’re going to break down, shut down, or lash...
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S13 Ep. 3 / When Marriage Meets the Fall
>> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! << When communication is falling apart, when your spouse feels more like an enemy than a partner, when illness or circumstances are straining your relationship —…
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S13 Ep. 2 Tool / Marriage: Designed for Delight
>> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! << Do you feel like you and your partner are missing each other? Both of you are trying to communicate love and communicate what you need. But you’re still feeling...
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S13 Ep. 2 / What is My Marriage For?
>> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! << “If marriage is good, then why doesn’t mine feel that way?” What should we do when our marriages don’t feel like a delight? When they don’t feel like they’ll ever…
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S13 Ep. 1 Tool / Am I Fighting My Spouse or My Past?
>> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! << We don’t just bring two people into a marriage. We also bring our stories. Sometimes there is abuse, hurt, sin and suffering on the pages of our stories. Sometimes…
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S13 Ep. 1 / Marriage: Are You Missing the Bigger Story?
>> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! << Is marriage even worth it? What should a biblical marriage look like? What does it mean to live as God’s people in the realm of husband and wife? Are we missing the...
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Bonus: What Does It Mean to Be Human? with Marty Solomon
>> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! << We often hear “I’m only human” as an exasperated admission. But what if being human isn’t the problem but the whole point? Marty Solomon invites us to a theological...
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S12 Ep. 6 / Boundaries: Your Questions Answered
>> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! << Is it unloving or selfish to set a boundary? If I forgive someone, does that mean I must restore the relationship and have no boundaries? How do boundaries work…
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S12 Ep. 5 / Stop Being a Doormat
>> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! << Boundaries can hurt. But that doesn’t mean you’re doing something wrong by setting them. God has placed in all of us dignity, purpose, agency, and limits, and…
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S12 Ep. 4 / How to Set Boundaries: Step-by-Step
>> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! << Talk about having boundaries is everywhere… it’s all around us in our culture! But how do we actually walk out having boundaries with wisdom and love in real-life...
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S12 Ep. 3 / Is It Time to Draw the Line?
>> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! << Does love mean that we should allow our dignity and agency as image bearers to be trampled upon? We’ve been conditioned to love and consider others. After all…
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S12 Ep. 2 / Boundaries Are in the Bible
>> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! << Have you ever heard someone argue that boundaries aren’t biblical? Have you ever struggled with feeling like having boundaries made you unloving? In God’s Word, we...
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S12 Ep. 1 / Boundaries are NOT Mean
>> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! << You’re not too sensitive. You can just say, “NO!” In fact, saying “no” might be the most loving thing you can do! But when we consider saying “no” and setting...
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S11 Ep. 8 / Barriers, Delays, and the Mystery of Prayer
>> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! << What do we do when God seems silent or even indifferent to our suffering? How should we pray when we feel God has told us to wait or even said “no”? It’s easy to…
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S11 Ep. 7 / Guided Scripture Prayer
>> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! << What can you do when you feel weak or anxious? When your mind is racing and you don’t know what to pray? Guided scripture prayer gives us the support we need to…
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S11 Ep. 6 / Contemplative Prayer
>> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! << We live in a culture of busyness, of doing instead of being. We might fear slowing down and sitting still because the anxiety or emotions we’ve been pushing down...
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S11 Ep. 5 / Lament and Process Journaling
>> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! << In His kindness, God invites us to grieve in His presence through prayer. When we lament, we’re not complaining to God or blaming Him for the suffering in our…
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S11 Ep. 4 / Lectio Divina
>> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! << If you enjoy guided prayer through Scripture or enjoy repetition, the Lectio Divina is the tool for you! The Lectio Divina reminds us that Scripture is not just...
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S11 Ep. 3 / The Immanuel Journal
>> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! << We serve a God who wants to commune with us. He is not distant; He hears, He sees, and He acts on behalf of His people. The Immanuel Journal helps us meditate on...
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S11 Ep. 2 / The Examen Prayer
>> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! << Do you want to build a habit of prayer but don’t know where to start? One of our favorite prayer tools is the Examen Prayer! This simple structure can help you...
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S11 Ep. 1 / What is Prayer?
>> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! << This season, we’re diving into prayer and introducing simple tools to help all of us move into a deeper understanding of God’s presence! If we’re being honest…
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S10 Ep. 7 / You Have to Believe What I Believe
>> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! What is your posture when you join someone on their journey to comfort and change? If our first priority is to influence or teach, we risk pushing our framework of…
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S10 Ep. 6 / Your Body Doesn't Matter!
>> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! << We live in a very disembodied culture. Many biblical counselors have a tendency to underemphasize the body as they counsel, while medical professions can focus on…
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S10 Ep. 5 / It Doesn’t Matter What I Believe
>> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! << In this episode, we’re diving into a hard — and very nuanced — topic. We encourage you to listen to the end and then share your thoughts, questions or concerns with...
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S10 Ep. 4 / I Can Fix That!
>> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! << Sometimes we think we can clearly see the right choice another person needs to make. And maybe our instinct is right! But it’s not our job to fix someone else’s...
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S10 Ep. 3 / My Life Has To Be Perfect
>> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! << Are we called to be perfect before we counsel? Of course not! If all of us waited to reach perfection on this side of heaven, none of us would be able to counsel...
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S10 Ep.2 / I Must Always Be Available!
>> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! << Do you feel burdened to always say “yes” even when you’re exhausted? In our care for others and desire to see them made whole, we can neglect ourselves. We strive to...
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S10 Ep. 1 / It’s All Up to Me!
>> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! << Have you discovered yet that you aren’t perfect as you minister to others? Over our years of ministry, we’ve definitely recognized our imperfections as we’ve made...
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S9 Ep. 8 / Trauma: Caring for Yourself as You Walk with Others
Disclaimer: This season is about trauma, and it might be difficult at times for some listeners. It’s not graphic, but each episode does cover sensitive topics. >> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! << As…
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S9 Ep. 7 / Trauma: Helping Someone Tell Their Trauma Story
Disclaimer: This season is about trauma, and it might be difficult at times for some listeners. It’s not graphic, but each episode does cover sensitive topics. >> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! <<…
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S9 Ep. 6 / Trauma: Safe in Relationship
Disclaimer: This season is about trauma, and it might be difficult at times for some listeners. It’s not graphic, but each episode does cover sensitive topics. >> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! << How...
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S9 Ep. 5 / Trauma: Safe in God
Disclaimer: This season is about trauma, and it might be difficult at times for some listeners. It’s not graphic, but each episode does cover sensitive topics. >> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! << In…
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S9 Ep. 4 / Tiffany Higginbotham: Safe in Our Body
Disclaimer: This season is about trauma, and it might be difficult at times for some listeners. It’s not graphic, but each episode does cover sensitive topics. >> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! <<…
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S9 Ep. 3 / Trauma: Walking with Others
Disclaimer: This season is about trauma, and it might be difficult at times for some listeners. It’s not graphic, but each episode does cover sensitive topics. >> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! << You...
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S9 Ep. 2 / Trauma: Two Types
Disclaimer: This season is about trauma, and it might be difficult at times for some listeners. It’s not graphic, but each episode does cover sensitive topics. >> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions forConversational Counselingsent straight to your email! << We...
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S9 Ep. 1 / Introduction to Trauma
Disclaimer: This season is about trauma, and it might be difficult at times for some listeners. It’s not graphic, but each episode does cover sensitive topics. >> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! << How...
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S8 Ep. 6 / The Good News for Sinners: Gospel Waltz (Love)
>> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! << Throughout this season, we’ve examined how God views sin and the sinner. While God is not soft on sin, He is exceedingly gentle and compassionate to the sinner and...
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S8 Ep. 5 / The Good News for Sinners: Gospel Waltz (Believe)
>> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! << In the Gospel Waltz, believing is an important step we may overlook when moving from confession to action. When we confess, we must pause to believe and behold as…
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S8 Ep. 4 / The Good News for Sinners: Gospel Waltz (Confess)
>> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! << What does repentance mean to you? When we think of repentance, we may fear the revealing of sin in our hearts. Maybe we’ve tried to conceal a sin from others…
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S8 Ep. 3 / The Capture of the Heart
>> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! << Who or what do you worship? God has given us His Word and creation to lead us to worship Him, but often as we behold the creation, we’re tempted to worship the...
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S8 Ep. 2 / The Heart of the Problem is the Problem of the Heart
>> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! << Just as our physical hearts are vital for our lives, our biblical heart is the center for our spiritual life. Our heart is our inner self, the root of our tree. It...
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S8 Ep. 1 / Ten Reasons Why We MUST Talk about Sin!
>> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! << How do you view the sin in your life? Sin is the catalyst for all the problems we face in our lives. In some circumstances, sin is our responsibility, but we also...
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S7 Ep. 6 / Telling One Woman's Story with Lauren Duncan
>> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! << The suffering and brokenness we experience in the now and the not yet can overwhelm us and shape our view of ourselves. In our final episode of Season 7, we welcome...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Conversational Counseling is where discipleship and counseling meet. Each season we help you apply biblical truths to your everyday life and to the lives of those around you.After decades of having these conversations in the counseling room and side by side over coffee with friends, we really believe that every single thing we’ve learned is useful within family, with your friends, at your work, with your neighbors and at your church.For free visuals and discussion questions for this podcast, sign up at knownministries.org. Known Ministries is Alex Kocher and Brenda Payne.
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Conversational Counseling is where discipleship and counseling meet. Each season we help you apply biblical truths to your everyday life and to the lives of those around you.After decades of having these conversations in the counseling room and side by side over coffee with friends, we really...
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Conversational Counseling is created and hosted by Known Ministries.
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