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Counsel for Life — 174 episodes

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Countertransference: When Your Story Impact Your Care

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Psychology and Biblical Counseling: Can conviction and curiosity coexist?

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Advancing the Global Biblical Counseling Movement, Featuring Brad Hambrick and Matias Casco

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How doubt can lead to greater faith, Featuring Dominique Young

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What if I struggle to forgive? Featuring Yana Conner

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How tuning in becomes care for your soul, Featuring A.C. Seiple

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Living quietly in a culture of noise, Featuring Tommy Brown

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When your loved one's chronic illness interrupts life together, Featuring Nate Brooks

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Finding a loving God in the midst of your painful story, Featuring Quina Aragon

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Candid truth about teen mental health, Featuring Danny Kwon & Monica Kim

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Why the Church needs to understand mental health, Featuring Dr. Mark Mayfield

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When addiction takes everything: A Parent’s grief, Featuring Lance & Jeni Ward

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How to be a spiritually healthy leader, Featuring Dave Wiedis

14

Hope for survivors of sexual assault, Featuring Camille Cates

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Attraction, Identity, and the Church as Home

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Grief few fathers talk about, Featuring Eric Schumacher

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Fear is not a sin, Featuring Ed Welch

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The key to resilience in ministry, Featuring Dave Harvey

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Don't overcomplicate Bible reading, Featuring David Platt

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Talking back to our fears, Featuring Mary Marantz

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How should we talk to kids about suffering?

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How to parent grown kids without losing them, Featuring Kathy Cunningham

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What you need when life doesn’t let up, Featuring Karrie Hahn

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What's so great about biblical counseling? Featuring Jonathan Holmes, Curtis Solomon, and Shaun Van Dyke

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What we miss when we forget we're embodied, Featuring Lainey Greer

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Overcoming our fears as counselors

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Can A.I. be my counselor?

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Caring for someone at the end of life, Featuring Greg Lowe

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Ending coercive control in your life, Featuring Tabitha Westbrook

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What is biblical ambition? Featuring Jeremy Writebol

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What causes trauma, and how to I spot it?

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How do I manage the anxieties of motherhood? Featuring Courtney Devich

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Guarding Kids from Explicit Content: A Conversation for All Parents with John-Michael Bout

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Ian Cron on Addiction, Transformation, and the Enneagram

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Tools for effective biblical counseling, Featuring Joe Hussung

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Understanding nervous system regulation, Featuring Michelle Grosser

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What is the Sympathetic Nervous System?

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Healing from emotionally destructive relationships, Featuring Leslie Vernick

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Hope for wives who've been betrayed, Featuring Rachel Warneking

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Why are we so lonely? Featuring Jeremy Linneman

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Why counselors and ministers need supervision

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Can a church be trauma-safe? Featuring Preston Hill

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What is Attachment Theory?

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Counseling the 'parts' of us, Featuring AC Seiple

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Does IFS help rewire our thought? Featuring Dr. Alison Cook

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Good theology demands care for the body! Featuring Matt LaPine

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Faith, trauma, and Christian community, Featuring Chuck DeGroat

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What is EMDR? Featuring Esther Smith

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Does biblical counseling need ethical standards? Featuring Jonathan Holmes

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Why are we so stressed?

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The Church and the mental health crisis, Featuring Jim and Heather Sells

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Mistakes in marriage counseling

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Every Christian should learn about domestic abuse, Featuring Chris Moles

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What is neurofeedback? Featuring Alice Churnock

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What is ketamine therapy? Featuring Logan MacLean

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Counsel for Perfectionism from the Beatitudes, with Micha Boyett

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Learning to forsake sexual sin, Featuring Joel Warneking

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The complex topic of sex, Featuring Scott Mehl

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Let's talk about church hurt, Featuring Megan Hill

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Essential attributes of a wise counselor, Featuring Dr. Paul Tripp

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Conversations Matter: Talking with your kids about suicide, Featuring Brad Hunstable

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What is OCD? Featuring Mike Emlet

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Caring for domestic abuse victims, Featuring Joy Forrest

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Encouragement for parents of wayward children, Featuring Stuart Scott

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An honest conversation about disordered eating, Featuring Emily Meyer

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What is disordered eating? Featuring Christie Dondero Bettwy

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A young teen's perspective on today's struggles, Featuring Elijah Broom

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When children struggle with fear, Featuring Darby Strickland

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What is codependency? Featuring Heather Bjur

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What we are reading

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Keys to living fully. A conversation with Dr. Jim Wilder

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What is Social Anxiety?

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Psychology through the lens of faith: A conversation with Eric Johnson

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Insights into marriage counseling, Featuring Jonathan and Jennifer Holmes

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What is PTSD?

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Healing together: Exploring the pros and cons of group counseling, Featuring Melissa Affolter

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Can doubt make your faith stronger? Featuring Jack Carson

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Is trauma still taboo in the church? A critical conversation with Dr. Phil Monroe

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How to help an anxious generation of teens, Featuring Liz Edrington

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Your emotional health is crucial to your ministry.

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Is your ministry putting children at risk? Featuring Jeff Dalrymple

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Faith or Pharmacy? Christians and psychiatric medications, Featuring Adam O'Neill

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How lament transforms your pain, Featuring Mark Vroegop

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Essential elements of counseling, Part 2

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Do Christians have an identity crisis? Featuring author and counselor Paul Tautges

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Caring for families caught in domestic abuse, Featuring Chris Moles

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The struggle of depression in motherhood, Featuring Christine Chappell

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Essential elements of counseling, Part 1

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What is a "Licensed Biblical Counselor"?

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What is dissociation?

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Helping kids who struggle

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How to deal with intrusive thoughts

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Practical help for loving adult children

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Medication and mental health

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How to build health in marriage

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When should we promise confidentiality in counseling and discipleship?

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How we use Scripture in life and counseling

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Why Revisit the Past?

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You're only human, Featuring Kelly Kapic

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Jesus and the value of emotions, Featuring Jonathan Pennington

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A calming resource for kids and families, Featuring Eliza Huie

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Stories of adoption, Featuring Kristen Crew

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Stories of adoption, Featuring Jonathan Holmes

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Stories of adoption, Featuring Jason Kovacs

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How to address mental health in the Church, Featuring Steve Midgley & Helen Thorne

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A candid conversation with Elyse Fitzpatrick

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Finding hope when life is overwhelming, featuring Rush Witt

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How grief can move us toward God, Featuring Tim Challies

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How to love the older generation, featuring Isabel Tom

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What Parents Need To Know About Loving Their Adult Children

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What Adult Children Need To Know About Loving Their Parents

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Suffering, Sorrow, and Grief, Featuring Nancy Guthrie

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Building a strong marriage, Featuring Bob Lepine

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How to help someone with a psychiatric diagnosis? Featuring Ed Welch

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When forgiveness seems impossible, Featuring Hayley Satrom

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When decision-making causes anxiety, Featuring Michael Gembola

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Help for quieting your mind, featuring Esther Smith

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How To Help Christians Struggling With Their Faith, Featuring Mike Kelsey

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Why Your Need Self-Awareness, featuring Michael Crawford

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Emotions: Mirrors of the Heart, featuring Catherine Haddow

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Using Scripture in Counseling, featuring Nate Brooks

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God's Mercy and Justice, featuring Jen Wilkin

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Angry with God, featuring Brad Hambrick

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Betrayal in Marriage (Pt. 2), Featuring Brad Hambrick

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Betrayal in Marriage (Pt. 1), Featuring Brad Hambrick

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Welcome to Season 2!

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How to Get the Most out of Counseling: Featuring Kyle Johnston

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Why Pastors' Wives Need Counseling: Featuring Lauren Chandler

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Why Missionaries Need Counseling: Featuring Amy Newsome

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Why Pastors and Church-Planters Need Counseling: Featuring Michael Crawford

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Why Kids Need Counseling: Featuring Julie Lowe

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Why Women Need Counseling: Featuring Shannon McCoy

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Why Men Need Counseling: Featuring Tim Lane

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Why Counselors Need Counseling: Featuring Brittney Moses

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Abuse in the Church: Our Response to the SBC Guidepost Report

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When Home Hurts: Interview with Jeremy Pierre & Greg Wilson

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How Christians Can Approach Secular Psychology: Part 3

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How Christians Can Approach Secular Psychology: Part 2

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Traits of a Trusting Relationship

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How to Handle Negative Thoughts

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The Importance of Being Present

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How Christians Can Approach Secular Psychology: Interview with Nate Brooks

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Making Sense of Forgiveness: Interview with Brad Hambrick

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Raising Emotionally Healthy Kids

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Helping Teens Grow in Christ: An Interview with Lindsey Carlson

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How to Wisely Share Your Story

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How to Use the Bible in Caring for Others

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Part 5: Alasdair Groves shares how the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation provides training

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Part 4: Shauna Van Dyke shares how the Association of Biblical Counselors provides training

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Part 3: Christine Chappell shares how the Institute for Biblical Counseling & Discipleship provides training

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Part 2: Curtis Solomon shares how the Biblical Counseling Coalition provides resources

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How can I get trained in biblical counseling? (Part 1)

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Caring for Victims of Abuse: An Interview with Darby Strickland

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Biblical Friendship: An Interview with Jonathan Holmes

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Table for Two: An Interview with David and Krista Dunham

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Essentials in Preparing for 2022

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The Wisdom of Welcoming Emotions

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Understanding Trauma: Part 2

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Understanding Trauma: Part 1

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The Whole Life: An Interview with Esther Smith and Eliza Huie

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The Power of Gratitude

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Wonders of His Love: An Interview with Champ Thornton

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When Prayer Seems Unheard

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The importance of gathering with the Church

165

When should you go to counseling?

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How to calm a panic attack

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Where are you on the spectrum of anxiety?

168

Suffering and the goodness of God

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Is shame something God wants us to feel?

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How should Christians think about depression?

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How do I help someone who has suicidal thoughts?

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What is Biblical Counseling, and why does it matter for me?

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Getting to Know Eliza and Beth

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Why Talk about Mental Health and the Christian Life?