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Growing Mature in the Faith: Spiritual Development Counseling

Humankind’s greatest purpose is to bring glory to God and to enjoy His presence forever. As people made in his image, we need to care for ourselves spiritually as much as physically. If you want to grow spiritually but don’t know how,let us offer helpful ideas to assist you in maturing in your Christian walk.

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Erin Welsh

Nov
2022
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Tips for Reading Scripture When Life is Busy

Erin Welsh

Are you staring down New Year’s Day with a list of goals for personal growth? Is one of those goals to read your Bible more? What a fantastic idea. Let’s look at some practical ways for making that happen for you this year. First, what have you tried in the past that has not worked? Rather than repeat things that have failed in the past, consider why they may have failed. Maybe you got into a Bible journaling course, but don’t actually like to write. Perhaps you failed to account for how slowly you read. Are you trying to be a morning lark instead of the night owl that you...

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Pamela Pope

Nov
2022
14

Breaking Negative Thought Patterns

Pamela Pope

Learning about your mental health is hard work. From a spectrum of illnesses to normal thought patterns being negative, the concept of “taking every thought captive” can seem impossible. Since much of what happens in your brain is subconscious, it takes effort to change patterns and habits of negative thinking into healthy thinking. Negative thought patterns can affect your mood, your attitude toward work, and your relationships. Your brain creates ruts and in times of stress will default into the most familiar ruts. It takes time to program or reprogram the ruts to healthy thinking, rather than negative thinking. Then the Spirit of the Lord came on me, and he...

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