Renovation Biblical Counseling, PLLC

12/08/2025

12/06/2025

"Our pursuit of God will only ever match our revelation of his goodness."

12/05/2025

"Divorce didn't break the covenant, abuse did."

12/02/2025

And though the Lord gives you
The bread of adversity and the water of affliction,
Yet your teachers will not be moved into a corner anymore,
But your eyes shall see your teachers.
Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying,
“This is the way, walk in it,”
Whenever you turn to the right hand
Or whenever you turn to the left.

Isaiah 30:20-21

11/27/2025

We pray for blessings, we pray for peace
Comfort for family, protection while we sleep
We pray for healing, for prosperity
We pray for Your mighty hand
To ease our suffering
And all the while, You hear each spoken need
Yet love us way too much to give us lesser things

'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops?
What if Your healing comes through tears?
What if a thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know You're near?
And what if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise?

We pray for wisdom, Your voice to hear
And we cry in anger when we cannot feel You near
We doubt Your goodness, we doubt Your love
As if every promise from Your word is not enough
And all the while, You hear each desperate plea
And long that we'd have faith to believe

'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops?
What if Your healing comes through tears?
And what if a thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know You're near?
And what if trials of this life
Are Your mercies in disguise?

When friends betray us
And when darkness seems to win, we know
The pain reminds this heart
That this is not, this is not our home
It's not our home

'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops?
What if Your healing comes through tears?
And what if a thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know You're near?
What if my greatest disappointments
Or the aching of this life
Is the revealing of a greater thirst
This world can't satisfy?
And what if trials of this life
The rain, the storms, the hardest nights
Are Your mercies in disguise?

--Laura Story, "Blessings"

11/25/2025

So many parents of adult children feel the quiet pressure around the holidays:
• to make everyone happy
• to smooth over old tension
• to keep traditions alive
• to pretend the losses don’t hurt

But God doesn’t meet us in the flawless moments.
He meets us in the honest ones.

Holiday well-being research shows that when families lower pressure and increase emotional flexibility, stress drops and genuine connection rises.

Joy grows in the space we create — not in the perfection we chase.

Scripture reminds us:
“My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness.” (2 Corinthians 12:9)

God doesn’t need your holiday to be perfect.

He blesses the places that feel unfinished.

This year, let your soul breathe:
✨ You don’t have to fix everyone’s mood.
✨ You don’t need to recreate old traditions exactly as they were.
✨ You’re allowed to feel joy and grief at the same time.
✨ You can release the pressure to keep everyone pleased.
✨ You can create a plan that makes room for God’s presence.
Joy begins where striving ends.

What’s one expectation you’re giving yourself permission to release this holiday season?

11/25/2025

11/21/2025

How to Discipline your Flesh, Walk in Self-Control, and Develop the Skill of Waiting

The terms discipline, self-control, and waiting refer to a spiritual muscle that must be flexed and exercised if you want it to shape your life.

The word "wait" is mentioned 144 times in the NKJV. The specific phrase "wait on the Lord" appears 5 times and topically 116 times. Clearly, the ability to wait is something God wants us to develop and a skill we're going to need!

Self-control is one of the nine fruit of the spirit. We received it at salvation in what I refer to as "seed form," but it must be fertilized, watered, and cultivated to become the "full corn in the ear" (maturity.)
Just as you exercise physical muscles in the gym to gain strength and endurance, so must spiritual muscle be exercised. Many times the Gym of Life presents numerous opportunities to exercise spiritual muscle, but did you know you can also exercise spiritual muscle on purpose?

Here are some ideas:

DELAY
--Take the stairs instead of the elevator.
--Wait 10 minutes before you start eating.
--Go 2 hours (or longer) without looking at your phone.
--Wait an extra week to get a haircut or have your nails done.
--Fast an extra hour.
--Skip a day of a particular food, beverage, activity, or luxury you would normally enjoy.
--Put off anything you want for a length of time.

ADD
--Do an extra set during one of your fitness exercises.
--Bump up the weight for one set.
--Add 5 minutes to the time you planned on the treadmill
--Pray 10 minutes more
--Add time to anything when you feel like stopping.

SUBTRACT
--Eat less than you want to.
--Don't buy the thing.
--Skip the whipped cream or creamer in your coffee
--Abstain from luxuries for a day.

REFUSE
--Be anxious for nothing (Phil 4:6). Refuse to be anxious.
--Wait on the Lord (Psalm 27:14). Refuse to be impatient.
--Trust in the Lord (Psalm 37:3). Refuse to doubt.
--Take every thought captive (2 Cor. 10:5). Refuse to be victim to your thoughts.

With practice, discipline, self-control, and the ability to wait will increase so that when the storms of life hit ( and they will), you will be a ready soldier.

11/20/2025

Thank God!

Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria: Review of Evidence and Best Practices is a report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

11/20/2025

You can live your life so devoted to God that heaven meets earth through your life and changes the eternal trajectory of souls.