Editor’s Note: This article contains three excerpts from Dr. Gary Hallquist’s book Consider This. Initially crafted as weekly devotionals exclusively for members of The Shepherd’s Church Music Ministry, Consider This has recently been published by Shepherds Press to...
While recently reading Post-Christian: A Guide to Contemporary Thought and Culture by Gene Edward Veith Jr., my thoughts went on a tangential journey about the Copernican Revolution of the 16th Century. Up to that time, astronomers and scientists thought the Earth was...
If you’ve counseled for any length of time, you have likely found yourself in a spot where you have done everything you know to do, but the person you are counseling is no better. Maybe it’s a couple that you’ve been working with that’s highly conflicted, and they are...
Not long ago I stood over the casket of a precious friend whose life on earth was taken from her by brain cancer. I watched as her faithful adoring husband tried desperately to console himself—he was mildly successful. They had prayed. Many had prayed. For years. The...
I remember the moment in my first counseling class when the professor asked, “Do you know what the goal of all counseling is?” I was struck by the question for a couple of reasons. One, I hadn’t really thought of counseling as having a goal (shame on me). If I had to...
