Bo and Charlie’s lives forked into two very different paths - one glorious, one . . . not so much. But which is which?

I’m excited to announce my new book - Subversive Stories: The Parables as Modern Short Stories. The book is exactly what it sounds like - the parables of Jesus retold as modern day short stories.

Keeping the gospel as merely a matter of past salvation becomes an enormous problem as we move along, disordering the Christian life in all kinds of ways. There are (at least) two reasons for this.

SBC has put out a new book: Addiction: Questions for Heart Change. By way of introduction, I’ll give you a few notes on the book followed by a couple of excerpts. Lastly, for those who are interested, I’ll give some explanation of why writing is part of our counseling ministry.

If self-righteousness is such a big deal in the Bible, one of the greatest diseases of the human heart that has enormous spiritual, relational, emotional, and social consequences, why is it not more often considered a counseling issue?

Peter is hard not to like. He puts his foot in his mouth constantly, his emotions swing drastically, and he talks big but can’t back it up.

I have always found it bewildering that Mary Magdalene mistook Jesus for the gardener. Why couldn’t she recognize him? Why a gardener?

On your mark…get set…go!

We should never forget that before the resurrection occurred, the cross is everything but victorious. Good Friday is the worst.

I recently came across a 10 page teaching on forgiveness by Tim Keller in his Romans study and found it too helpful not to share.

As you work on your finances, consider the incredible breadth and depth of Scripture’s wisdom on money. I’ve collected some of that below for you, as well as a handful of resources on financial stewardship.

I have a gift for you. I’ve been working on it for the past few months and have finally finished it. Like any gift you make yourself, I’m eager to give it to you. One of the most common questions I get is, “Do you have any books you’d recommend on ______?”

Accountability and boundaries are undoubtedly important and surely the best place to begin the fight. Yet, underneath the accountability and behind the boundaries there often remains a heart that is still in love with the addiction.

What would it be like to counsel the author, Heman the Ezrahite, the most hopeless man in Scripture? What do you do when life has knocked the hope out of you, and you find yourself “in the depths of the pit, in the regions dark and deep?”

We must never forget that before the resurrection occurred, the cross is everything but victorious. On Saturday, Good Friday is the worst.

This may seem like a strange book to come from the pen of a counselor…

The aim of this letter, instead, is hope. To pierce the darkness with a bit of light, to crack open the door that leads out of the pit. And it’s not even general hope that I’m after. I want to help you find hope in God. Will you allow me to do that, or at least to try?

Biblical counseling in a formal office is a bit like Free Willy.

Yesterday I came into our living room to find my eight year old son, who was supposed to be in time-out, counting the gifts under the tree. “Dad, how come I only have two presents and my sisters have three?”

A few weeks ago I announced my most recent book, One of Us: Christ and the People of Christmas. For those interested, below is a sample chapter of the book, which looks at the birth of Christ through the shepherd’s eyes.