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Welcome to my world! I hope that you’ll benefit as I review the path I have taken from wide-eyed college student through 28 years of ministry and now into semi-retirement and my Counseling and Life Coaching practice. In these Posts I’ll be sharing with you not only my history but a little more about Christian Counseling. Some folks aren’t familiar with these concepts. I hope to change that!

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  • ANTICIPATION

    I’m sure that, through the years of your life, you have looked forward to something. Graduation? College? Maybe your wedding day, or the birth of your first child. We all could make a list of things that we have anticipated in our lives. How would you characterize “anticipation”? Here’s how the Apostle Paul saw it:…

  • AN OPTIMIST OR A SUCKER?

    In many relationships there comes a time when believability becomes an issue. Someone has been hurt. Someone has lied. Someone has been manipulative. Someone feels cheated. The circumstances which can lead to the believability crisis can vary widely. In any case the crisis revolves around trust. As I counsel, the theme of trust is frequently…

  • PROJECTS

                Do you ever have a personal “to-do” list?  I do.  Every spring my wife and I sit down and write down our summer projects, which usually means work we hope to accomplish outside, like building a terrace, splitting next winter’s firewood, planting blackberries, etc.  Needless to say, our reach often exceeds our grasp, which…

  • HEARTS AND HEARING

                I’m working on a new project.  It is my newest book entitled, What Fills Your Heart?  The premise of the book is to set several contrasts before the reader asking which of them fills their heart?  Some examples of chapter titles are: As I write I am encountering the leadership of the Holy Spirit…

  • ABOUT EXPECTATIONS…

                As a Christian Counselor, it is my privilege and responsibility to give biblical guidance to those individuals and couples who come to me for advice and direction.  It is important to me that clients understand that the foundation of my work is God’s Word.  God has given us clear and specific teachings in the…

  • MOTIVATION

    How would you define motivation? Being inspired to get something done? Incentive? Stimulus?  How about something a little simpler, like “want-to”? It has been my experience that unless I really want to do something all the attempts at motivation ring hollow. This has been true when it is self-motivation, but even more so when it…

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