Deus Misereatur

  Jay Adams is known among many biblical counselors and classic Presbyterians as the father of neuthetic counseling. Some years back he pulled together several short essays on the value and significance of faith during the counseling process that became this short 73-page paperback: “The Importance of Faith in Counseling”. This little manual has recently been repackaged and republished by the Institute for Nouthetic Studies. The chapters are short, and easy to digest. Adams whole premise is that the counseled need to be encouraged to grow in faith during counseling sessions. And the counselor also needs to develop stronger faith as well. But it’s not about faith-in-faith. Rather, Adams shows what real Christian faith is and how it focuses on and centers on who God is, what he has done, is doing, and will do for his people as declared in Sacred Scripture. In other words, you “will want to create a pervasive biblical atmosphere…it is God, not the counselor, with Whom the counselee pr...

  (A prayer-reflection from my morning devotions) Lord Jesus, you did not come to bring peace to the world. Rather, as an act of judgment you came to divide the world between the dying and doomed from the living and loyal (Luke 12:49-53). Lord, may your work be accomplished. And yet, because you are our peace, you make those who are ethnically divided one new man and have broken down the dividing wall of hostility in your flesh (Ephesians 2:14). Lord, may your work be accomplished! O God of peace, be with us all (Romans 15:33; Philippians 4:9). O God of peace, crush Satan under our feet (Romans 16:20). O God of peace, sanctify us completely - body, soul, spirit - keeping us blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. You who are faithful will surely do it (1 Thessalonians 5:23)! O God of peace, who brought up again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the Great Shepherd of the sheep: by the blood of the eternal covenant equip us with everything good that we may do your will, working...