This article offers clear and practical instruction, based on biblical principles, to help those caring for people who are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The author seeks to show the interconnectedness of body and soul.

This article addresses the natural tendency to judge God when we’re suffering, and gives advice on how to lead people to trust in him.

The author makes the point that those who are suffering are comforted by the silent presence of fellow believers.

This article offers an assessment of what has been called "midlife crisis," which affects men in middle age and is characterized by regret over past decisions and dissatisfaction with the life situation those decisions have created. The author offers clear a biblical understanding and approach.

This article offers a description of what has been called "midlife crisis," affecting men in middle age, characterized by regret over past decisions and dissatisfaction with the life situation those decisions have created.

Injustice, especially in the church or in the Christian community, can provoke a crisis of faith. In this article, the author addresses the anger that is so often the natural response to injustice.

This article provides a biblical perspective on suffering. It is intended to equip those who minister to believers who are enduring some kind of trial.

This article addresses the struggle of a person who has suffered trauma to find meaning in his or her experience. It provides advice for those who are called to come alongside those who suffer.

This article reminds those who are going through a crisis that God uses suffering as discipline to train believers in faith and holiness, and that discipline is confirmation of his love for them.

Reflecting on a very destructive hurricane (Hurricane Harvey) that struck the Houston, Texas (U.S.) area in 2017, the author offers biblical insights and encouragement for surviving the storms of life.

This article was written in the aftermath of a mass shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada (U.S.) in 2017. It includes a list of thirty-six revealed purposes of God in his people’s suffering. The list, together with the Bible references, will be useful in caring for believers who are experiencing a crisis.

This article provides sound biblical advice for providing discipleship to those are suffering.

This article draws on Scripture to encourage those who are undergoing trials to trust in God.

The author encourages those experiencing tribulation by directing them to the joy that Christ holds out to believers.

This article provides solid biblical encouragement to those who are undergoing heavy trials.

This article discusses the eating disorder known as gluttony, and addresses the spiritual dimensions of this issue. It identifies the unbelief and sin, as well as the hope that is given in the gospel.

This article discusses the eating disorder known as bulimia, and addresses the spiritual dimensions of this issue. It identifies the unbelief and sin, as well as the hope that is given in the gospel.

This article discusses the eating disorder known as anorexia, and addresses the spiritual dimensions of this issue. It identifies the unbelief and sin, as well as the hope that is given in the gospel. Anorexia can precipitate relationship- and life-threatening crises.

Fear is an instinctive response to crisis. This article reflects on the words of Isaiah 41:8-10, to give a biblical perspective on the crisis, and the comfort of God’s promises.

This article reports that serving others has been shown to be helpful therapy for veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress. The author notes that this lines up with biblical teaching about serving others.

This article reports that serving others has been shown to be helpful therapy for veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress. The author notes that this lines up with biblical teaching about serving others.

This article offers practical instruction for helping those who are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. The author affirms the importance and benefits of biblical counseling.

This article offers clear and practical instruction, based on biblical principles, to help those who are counselling individuals with Complex Post Traumatic Stress, a kind of post-traumatic stress disorder.

This article offers clear and practical instruction, based on biblical principles, to those counselling people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. The author provides a common course of counsel in such cases.

In this article, the author provides clear biblical insight and instruction for helping those who are caught up in a crisis.

The author offers insights into the emotions and thinking of people who have experienced child sexual abuse, so that those who try to help them can better understand how the abuse has affected them.

This article addresses three typical statements or popularly held beliefs about dealing with abuse in marriage. The author identifies the valid concerns reflected in each of these statements, the danger involved in applying them uncritically, and explains the better, biblical, way to think and speak about the valid concerns they express.

This article addresses three typical statements or popularly held beliefs about dealing with abuse in marriage. The author identifies the valid concerns reflected in each of these statements, the danger involved in applying them uncritically, and explains the better—biblical—way to think and speak about the valid concerns they express.

This article helps us understand the traumatic effects of sexual abuse, particularly rape, identifying key considerations to be kept in mind when counselling victims of sexual abuse. The author also points to the comfort that believers receive by remembering the suffering and death of Jesus Christ.

This article helps us understand the traumatic effects of sexual abuse, particularly rape, identifying key considerations to be kept in mind when counselling victims of sexual abuse.

Among the most troubling things for victims of abuse to deal with are the questions that it raises about the character of God. The author uses Scripture to provide some ways in which these questions can be answered, and encourage the victims of abuse to continue to trust in the goodness and the love of God.

This article provides some diagnostic questions that may be asked of a Christian involved in a marriage in which there is emotional abuse.

This article provides a clear, biblical assessment of abuse, identifies common themes in emotional abuse, and offers helpful advice for an appropriate Christian response to emotional abuse.

The author identifies the real root of domestic violence, showing that violence is not caused by anger. Rather, anger opens up a window into the heart of a person. Biblically speaking, counselling or pastoral care must address the sinful desires of the heart, not only the sinful emotions and actions.

This article provides simple and practical advice for office-bearers and counsellors who become aware of a marriage in crisis, and want to know how best to approach the situation. A “crisis marriage” is defined by the author as any marriage that is unravelling due to adultery, violence, or some serious secret sin.

The author uses the story of Abigail (1 Samuel 25) to provide guidance for helping women respond to anger in their relationships.

The author lays out a very practical, biblical way for office-bearers to deal with marital abuse. Not all will agree with his view on remarriage after divorce due to abuse, but that is not a central point in the article.

This article explains why biblical counselling can be an effective response to domestic abuse: it emphasizes the biblical principle of not only putting off bad behaviour, but putting on godly behaviour. It shows the value of highlighting the abusive behaviour, contrasting that with Scripture,  and through the whole process calling the abuser to biblical alternatives.

This article discusses a part of the counselling process for abusers and abused. This part involves reconciliation, repentance, and confessing sin. Victim impact statements are mentioned in this regard.

This article offers three essential truths to keep in mind for those counselling victims of abuse. The responsibility for change lies with the abuser, the abused needs to focus on honouring the Lord, and a supportive church community is integral for the abused.

This article provides help to those who are in a position to minister to victimes of abuse. It points to the sufferings of Jesus, and the strength and sympathy of God.

The article provides a biblical definition of abuse that is brief, but identifies various forms or aspects of abuse. The author also gives biblical references and illustrations of the various aspects of abuse.

This article provides advice to counsellors about how to help believers deal with “triggers”—situations, locations, words, and people that bring their sorrows to mind, and threaten to make them feel angry, anxious, or hopeless.

People who are in conflict can get caught up in the details of situations and lose sight of the fundamental issues that live in their hearts. This article alerts counsellors to that tendency, and offers advice to help them keep the conversation on track.

In this article, the author provides insights into anger, and offers ways for believers to respond to God when they feel angry.

This article addresses the phenomenon of unforgiveness, and the power it has to take hold of the heart of a person who has been sinned against, and prevent the restoration of a broken relationship.

This article addresses situations in which Christians involved in conflict might be considering legal action, and promotes a biblical and peace-seeking alternative approach.

This article is the testimony of a believer who was helped by biblical counseling to recognize the true character of her low self-esteem.

This fourth of a series of four articles addresses believers who harm themselves, identifying the false beliefs that drive self-harm, and presenting the truth proclaimed in the gospel.

This third of four articles discusses the nature and motivation for self-harm, and presents the hope of the gospel as the way out of the addiction.

The second of these four articles on cutting explains why more and more women are doing this, with the chief of reasons actually being rebellion against God. The article concludes by pointing to the love and the sovereignty of God as the source of relief and protection.

The first of these four articles identifies two lies that keep believers from turning to God for relief and protection from cutting, and how these lies are defeated by the gospel.

Cutting is used to find relief from the pain of guilt and shame. This article is addressed to believers who cut themselves, directing them to find genuine relief in the blood of Christ, rather than finding false comfort in shedding their own.

This second article in this series of two lays the foundation for a biblical definition of believers’ identity.

This first article in a series of two identifies the dangers that counsellors face when helping people who feel worthless, and helps to steer a biblical course in encouraging believers to recognize their true identity.

This article presents some fundamental insights into a believer’s understanding of self.

This article identifies warning signs for suicide, offers advice about how to become involved, and underlines the obligation we have as believers to become involved when a person threatens suicide.

This article offers biblical data and advice about suicide, and helping a person who is suicidal.

This article uses biblical data to address the question about the eternal destiny of the believer who commits suicide.

This article addresses the dilemma posed by the expectation of strict confidentiality in pastoral counselling, in the light of biblical requirements for dealing with sinners who refuse to repent.

This article provides direction to help those who minister the gospel to men whose child has been aborted.

This article offers advice for bringing the gospel to women who have had an abortion.

The author shows from 1 Peter 5:6-8 that humility is an antidote to anxiety.

Using Philippians 4:7, this article encourages anxious believers to turn to God in faith, and seek “the peace of God that passes all understanding” that will protect their hearts from anxiety.

The author shows from 1 Peter 5:6-8 that humility is an antidote to anxiety. 

This article focuses on teens and anxiety, and offers some practical ways to guide them as they suffer from anxiety.

This article offers advice for helping a teenager who suffers from insomnia because of anxiety.

This article provides a short, helpful list of questions to ask the husband, and the wife, before the first post-adultery counselling session.

These articles provides husbands with practical, biblical advice on how to show true care for their wives after confessing their sin with pornography.

This article provides husbands with practical, biblical advice on how to confess their sin with pornography to their wives.

This article speaks about the benefits of providing counselling within the context of the church when there has been marital unfaithfulness.

This article addresses the dynamic that often develops when an offender (adulterer or otherwise) repents, and forgiveness is promised, but the relationship is not restored because of the motives of the victim’s heart. The roles are reversed, and the victim becomes the offender. The author shows how the gospel provides the way for believers to escape this pattern.

This article identifies the damage that adultery does to marriage, and the hope that husband and wife can have reconciliation through repentance and forgiveness, and working by grace through faith to restore what has been destroyed by sin.

This article addresses the struggle of a repentant adulterer, and the issue of informing his or her spouse about the sin, giving biblical guidance in resolving the question.

This article is part two of a letter addressed to an imaginary person involved in an affair. The article is written to give guidance to those who have to give pastoral direction when dealing with a believer caught in adultery.

This article is part one of a letter addressed to an imaginary person involved in an affair. The article is written to give guidance to those who have to give pastoral direction when dealing with a believer caught in adultery.

This article offers some insights into counselling the betrayed spouse after adultery has been discovered. It focuses especially on the issue of forgiveness, and the conditions under which it is to be given.

Not all widows are aged, but most are. This article offers insights and advice to help believers as well as those providing pastoral care minister more effectively to widows.

This article gives advice to those who are providing counseling or pastoral care to believers who have dementia, and their families.

This article draws on the writing of Puritan pastor, Richard Baxter, to offer advice, in “alphabetical order,” to those who must provide pastoral care to the aging.

This article encourages the church to take note of senior members, and to care for them well.

The author offers words of encouragement from God’s Word to those who care for people suffering from dementia.

This article makes a distinction between codependency, which shields an addict from the consequences of his choices, and genuine selflessness on the part of a loved one who wants to care for a child or spouse who is addicted.

This article provides insight and guidance for those who have to make decisions about referring addicts for medical and detox care.

This article discusses the heart of the counsellor who is called to minister to those struggling with addictions. It explains how counselling reveals areas of sins in the counsellor's own life as well.

This article discusses the true nature of addictions—a worship disorder—and encourages and equips the church on how to help addicted believers.

This article considers the tendency of counsellees to super-size their addiction issues. The author explains that these issues, though complicated, are not more than what Christ and the local church can address. The family of faith needs to biblically address the various components that drive the choices behind the addiction.

This article offers counsel for churches with recovery groups for those with an addiction to pornography. It explains that churches will face a number of tensions in this regard that need to be anticipated and navigated wisely.

This article is excerpted from a devotional book, and speaks a word of encouragement to those who are addicted.

This article offers basic and clear advice to those who love and care for people who are addicts. It does not provide an extensive list of specific actions, but guides the caregiver in his or her approach.

This academic article opens up, and puts into biblical perspective, the fundamental issues involved in the relationship between secular psychology and biblical counselling. It is an essay about how Christian or biblical counseling ought to be taught.

This article spells out some of the basic differences between various forms of secular psychology, and the perspective and approach of biblical counselling. He shows that although secular psychology is in many ways fundamentally flawed, biblical counselors can make use of things that secular psychology has recognized.

The author shows that behavioral therapy, even when called "Christian" and used by Christian psychologists, does not rely on the crucified Christ and the life-giving Spirit. While it may be effective in altering behavior, it is not genuine Christian heart-changing counseling.

Using Psalm 42 and 43, the author describes "situational depression," and offers help for those who are depressed because of difficult things they experience.

This article encourages churches to develop a culture in which ministry is provided for those who are suffering with depression.

How does one navigate through spiritual depression? This article suggests that personal discipline is required in six critical areas.

What exactly is catastrophizing? This article explains what this is in relation to depression. It provides a biblical example of catastrophizing in the story of Elijah fleeing Jezebel after the contest of the prophets of Baal (1 Kings 19). Finally, it offers a response to catastrophizing: recognize, refocus, pray, and love.

This article on depression explains different approaches to counselling depressed people. It dwells particularly on imbalanced approaches that either oversimplify or complicate the issue. It ends by showing how counselling can give hope to the depressed.

This article discusses the prayer of Psalm 13 as a model of prayer for those who are depressed.

This article considers an appropriate response to someone thinking about getting medication for depression. It's a response of compassion, one that wants to also help such individuals make an informed decision. The author also considers Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, and argues that even "Christian CBT" is insufficient.