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Instilling the Hope of Jesus’ High Priesthood in Counseling
Hopelessness feels like a pandemic in the church. Often when I counsel people, one of the major characteristics of the heart exposed during the meetings is that the believer sitting across from me does...
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Why I Wrote Forgiveness: Reflecting God’s Mercy
This is what I saw in my counseling room last week: roommates exasperated by each other’s selfishness, a wife embittered by her husband’s continued use of porn, a husband defeated by his own anger,...
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15:14 Ep. 179 – Hayley Satrom
Hayley Satrom lives in the Washington, DC area with her husband Rob and three beloved children. They are members of Capitol Hill Baptist Church, where Hayley serves on staff part-time as a biblical...
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Helping Marriages Get Unstuck from the Past
In my years as a counselor, one of my biggest frustrations has been married couples coming to me after trying other counseling that did not help or, in some cases, made things worse. The couple comes...
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BCC Classic: Confession—The Prerequisite to Repentance and Forgiveness
The verse that most often comes to mind when we think of confession is 1 John 1:9, which begins, “If we confess our sins. . . .” Christians regard repentance, forgiveness, and restoration to be...
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Should Love Really Cover Over a Multitude of Sins?
It’s a familiar phrase: love covers over a multitude of sins (1 Pet. 4:8). But how does it sit with the biblical counseling community? Continue Reading →
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Book Review of Making Sense of Forgiveness: Moving from Hurt Toward Hope by...
The length of Brad Hambrick’s book Making Sense of Forgiveness had me worried. There are few topics I can think of as complicated, painful, helpful, needed, and riddled with practical difficulties as...
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Sometimes Forgiveness Looks Like Repentance
As we consider Jesus’ call to forgive, an analogy can be helpful: sometimes forgiveness looks like repentance. In this article, we will look at five comparisons between forgiveness and repentance that...
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Counsel the Bitter Person with a Warning from Jesus
Bitterness is a prison. It’s self-destructive; it is spiritual suicide. That’s why it’s often been said, “The bitter person drinks a vial of poison and waits for their enemy to die.” Therefore, when...
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