Redeemed Christian Counseling

08/22/2025

08/02/2025

Redeemed Christian Counseling & Education has these services that we offer:
Individual Counseling (adult, adolescent and children)
Couples Counseling (premarital and marital)
Family Counseling
https://www.redeemedchristiancounseling.org/

07/31/2025

Counselor's Corner

Forgiveness

Over the years, there’s been one word that consistently triggers a strong reaction in counseling sessions, among both Christian and non-Christian clients alike. That word is forgiveness.
It’s a word I’ve personally wrestled with throughout my own life. But when properly understood, forgiveness has the power to lead us to the soul’s deepest longing, Shalom, or ultimate peace.

Scripture: Matthew 18:21–22 (NIV)
Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?” Jesus answered, “I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.”

In this passage, Jesus challenges Peter to forgive not just seven times, but seventy-seven, or as some translations put it, seventy times seven. I don’t believe Jesus meant this literally as 490 times. Rather, He was calling Peter, and us, to adopt a lifestyle of forgiveness, a spirit that continually chooses grace.

But let’s be honest; this is anything but easy. Forgiveness isn’t a one-time declaration. It’s often a repeated, even hourly decision, especially when the wounds run deep. I describe it like this: When we’re betrayed, it’s as if a massive bonfire ignites in our heart, with flames towering ten feet high. That fire represents our anger, intense, consuming, and painful. Over time, the flames may die down, and we may feel a sense of relief, a hope that the rage has passed.

But then, unexpectedly, the fire roars back to life. Why? Because while the flames faded, the embers remained, still red-hot, just waiting for a dry log of pain, a memory, or encounter to reignite the fire. This is where forgiveness becomes vital.

Forgiveness is how we begin to extinguish the embers, not all at once, but little by little. Imagine using a small water gun to put out one ember at a time. That’s what choosing to forgive can feel like, slow, repetitive, even exhausting. Depending on the size of the bonfire, the depth of the betrayal, it may take all 490 times. But eventually, you'll reach the very last ember at the heart of the fire. And when that ember is finally out, that’s when forgiveness is complete.

Forgiveness can be a difficult and deeply personal journey, but you don’t have to do it alone. If you’re struggling, please don’t hesitate to reach out to a trusted friend, a pastor, or one of the caring counselors here at Redeemed Christian Counseling. We’re here to walk alongside you and help you find healing and peace.

Written by Joseph Lunsford, Counselor

07/29/2025

"I am extremely satisfied by the professionalism and approach at Redeemed Christian Counseling. Meeting with Brittney Mansur has helped me enormously. I would strongly recommend anyone wanting support (a life line) to make it a priority to schedule counseling with Brittney. She has been patient, a good listener, she is non-judgmental, trustworthy and I feel respected, seen and heard. She has provided Godly insight and prayer over my life for which I am forever grateful.
I highly recommend Redeemed!" - counselee

07/28/2025

He chose to love us

Written by Father Earl Sias

Let me ask you a true or false question. Please respond in your minds; you don’t have to say aloud the answer. The statement is simply this: Jesus Christ suffered and died on the cross to save all of mankind. True or False? I hope you mentally answered “true”. “There is no name under heaven by which we are saved but that of the Lord Jesus Christ.” Jesus Christ suffered and died in order to redeem all of mankind that was caught in the snare of sin and death since the time of Adam.

However, there is a little catch to this. Like any good test question there is a nuance here that we have to look at. Yes, Jesus did suffer and die to redeem all of mankind, but how exactly does He apply the grace that He won on the cross to redeem us? How does He apply that grace to you and me individually? He does it very simply by dealing with us individually. Jesus does not just redeem mankind universally.

In other words, He offers the grace of salvation to all of mankind and now it is mankind’s responsibility to respond and the response is absolutely necessary. Without the response the man is lost. He’s lost forever. And so there must be a response to what Jesus did on the cross. We must acknowledge what He did. The results of that acknowledgement of that salvation means simply that we turn away from sin and turn to God. It means that there is an aversion from sin and a conversion to God. That is key. The simple parables that Jesus gave us are an illustration of this. “What man among you having a hundred sheep and losing one of them would not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and go after the lost one until he finds it? And when he does find it, he sets it on his shoulders with great joy and, upon his arrival home, he calls together his friends and neighbors and says to them, 'Rejoice with me because I have found my lost sheep.'”

This parable that Jesus gave us is about dealing with people on an individual basis – one by one by one. That’s the way He wants it. He could have done it universally. He didn’t choose to do it that way. He chose to love us individually as well as collectively. He looks for our response individually as well as collectively.

Remember what Jesus does for individual people and accept it and embrace it for that is our salvation.

07/26/2025

Redeemed Christian Counseling & Education has these services that we offer:

Individual Counseling (adult, adolescent and children)
Couples Counseling (premarital and marital)
Family Counseling
https://www.redeemedchristiancounseling.org/

07/25/2025

July inspiration

In July
by Alice Marland [Wellington] Rollins

The hot sun stooped, his eager thirst to slake;
I trembled for the trembling little lake.
I thought to see it shrivel in his clutch;
But lo! it bloomed with lilies at his touch.
Fear not, sweet saint, by joy to be undone;
Peace comes with joy, like lilies with the sun.

07/24/2025

Counselor's Corner
Thanks to the latest brain science, we now understand that there is a secret to emotional resilience. It can be summed up in one word-joy. The more joy you have, the more hardship you can handle. High joy people bounce back from hardships of life faster than low-joy people. The more normal it becomes to feel joy, the easier it is to handle upsetting emotions.

Appreciation is one aspect that can help us bounce back quickly from upset emotions and is needed in order to train our brain to focus on what there is to enjoy life. The fastest way to jumpstart growing your capacity for joy is to spend five minutes twice a day writing out what you appreciate, where you feel emotion in your body, and then sharing what you appreciate with someone else.

You can also practice appreciation by taking 5 minute joy breaks twice each day. During your first joy break, think of a memory that makes you happy and focus on where you were, how you felt, who was there. During your second joy break, notice something in your environment that you like- a decoration, the view out the window, children playing- whatever you notice that makes you smile. Then, share your joy with others as this helps increase joy and build connection to others. So, to help you bounce back from upset emotions practice building joy in your life.

Written by Counselor Tami Dosch with information taken from the book Building Bounce by Marcus Warner and Stefanie Hinman.