Truth & Circumstances

Episode Highlights: Distinguish between venting and seeking counsel. Gently steer her away from venting by offering to pray with her or asking if she needs counsel. If the wife needs counsel, be sure to only give counsel about how to handle her own heart since you don’t have all the information (Prov 18:13, 17)

Episode Highlights: The Bible calls a man to give special care and attention to loving, knowing, and protecting his wife. Some influences from which a man can and should protect his wife are sin, ungodly influences, and over-commitment.

Episode Highlights: Understand your multi-faceted role as a Christian wife Model stewardship in your own life Give plenty of space on non-essential issues Frame everything in love

Episode Highlights: Stuart Scott: “Biblical Counseling is the Spirit-empowered process of one Christian coming along side another with words of encouragement, admonition, comfort and help, drawn from Scripture and presented in the context of relationship towards both God and man.” Biblical counseling is founded upon the convictions that the Word is sufficient (2 Tim 3:16-17), […]

Episode Highlights: Pursuit of the destination is a corporate activity, not a solitary one. Pursuing the destination with others entails stirring one another up to love and good deeds. (Heb 10:24-25) Regular meetings with other men, centered on stirring one another up, are an essential component of a man’s spiritual wellbeing and his ability to […]

Episode Highlights: The biblical method of change requires “putting off” and “putting on” (Eph 4:22-24) We should turn our thoughts from the offender’s character and works to the Lord’s character and works. We should put off any desire to repay evil for evil and instead proactively love the offender.

Episode Highlights: Lust is a broad issue pertaining to all kinds of aberrant desires. Everyone in the church could use equipping on this issue, whether as a help for themselves or to come alongside others. Come to “Directing Desire: Looking to Jesus in the Battle Against Lust” May 14, 8:00a-12:45p at PBF.

Episode Highlights: Prayer is an essential means of pursuing fellowship with the Lord. Meaningful participation in the church is an essential means of pursuing fellowship with the Lord. The spiritual disciplines are not ends in themselves, but conduits through which we enjoy the Lord.

Episode Highlights: Spiritual leadership requires a man to pursue the destination personally. The spiritual health of the head of the household is a crucial factor the health of the household. A man’s personal fellowship with the Lord is the well from which he will lead his family. A man pursues the destination through practicing the […]

Episode Highlights: Gambling is nowhere explicitly forbidden in Scripture, but there are sufficient principles to discourage it. The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. 1 Tim 6:9-10 Gambling is incompatible with biblical stewardship. Hastily gained wealth is the domain of the fool. Prov 13:11, 28:19-20