Sovereign Care Counseling

05/24/2026

Emotions are a heart revealer. Whether sad, fearful, joyful, angry, etc., our hearts' desires are being revealed. There is a reason that emotion is being exposed, and it isn't always good or justified; sometimes it is downright sinful.

05/23/2026

Never forget, even as bad as things may be perceived through sin and suffering, God is at work and Christ is renewing all things. One day, we will get to see Him face-to-face.

05/22/2026

It's not a chemical imbalance. Even the researchers agree. Yet they are still pushing the medicine as if it were.

Much of what you may have been taught to think about depression—and depression treatment—is wrong.

05/22/2026

Romans 15:13 (ESV)

13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

05/21/2026

As counselors, we do not offer counselees a complete system of answers about God. We offer them a genuine, reliable, sufficient knowledge of a God who is ultimately beyond full comprehension, and we invite them to trust what can be known rather than being paralyzed by what cannot.

05/21/2026

The counselor’s theology is their practice; their doctrine of God shapes how they receive the counselee, their anthropology shapes how they understand the presenting problem, their Christology shapes what resource they bring, their pneumatology shapes what they trust to produce change, their ecclesiology shapes where they direct the counselee after the session, and their eschatology shapes the hope they sustain when the change is slow.

05/21/2026

The 1689 (Chapter 5, Paragraph 2) affirms that God works through second causes, including the work of counselors, preachers, and friends, without those second causes being anything other than what they are: creaturely instruments of a sovereign God. The counselor is a genuine second cause, doing genuine work that God genuinely uses. They are not a sovereign cause, and the limits of creaturely agency are not a deficiency, they are a gift that protects us from the idolatry of thinking ourselves indispensable.

05/20/2026

https://www.sovereigncarecounseling.com/post/building-stronger-men-through-blue-collar-discipleship

This blog post looks at the typical, often over worked, blue-collar worker looking for discipleship or looking to be a discipler. Some tips on getting started and answering four questions related to discipleship.