Dear Christian Counselor, if your counsel has stalled or you are not equipped to help the couple, the answer is not be divorce. Do not discount the beauty of reconciliation that is found in restoring marriages.
When Home Hurts: A Guide for Responding Wisely to Domestic Abuse in Your Church
When Home Hurts by Greg Wilson and Jeremy Pierre is a pastoral guide to wisely identify and minster to domestic abuse. Wilson and Pierre wisely use Scripture to provide perspective to view our situations through and rightly apply Biblical wisdom. In defining abuse, they refer to it as a “me over you” and a use of authority or personal capacity to diminish another person’s capacity.
Addictions and Disordered Desires
When we desire the good gifts of God but fail to give Him the glory, it becomes a disordered desire. When these desires create social dysfunction, we refer to them as addictions. An Addiction is a disordered desire that is ruling our lives and is an outward manifestation of inward heart problem.
What the Bible Says about Divorce and Remarriage
Wayne Grudem studies the complicated topics and ethics of divorce and remarriage from a Christians perspective. What does Scripture say about marriage, divorce, and remarriage? Is divorce permissible? If it is permissible, then is remarriage also permissible?