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What if the road most travelled is your default response to the happening of life, even if this road is harmful? To live life this way is to also hold onto your past as a reference point for your future in the sense of the former informing the latter.  Change,...

The quick and correct answer is always “Jesus,” but this is not always and automatic response. Different people respond differently to the dark valleys of life. Let’s look at a few responses and use them to draw ourselves into the safety of our Shepherd: The docetic...

In my March 11th Facebook feed came the following: “God is saying to you today, I know you have been struggling for a long time. Financially, spiritually, and emotionally. You have a good heart and people have abused you in many ways. The devil has tried to make...

Some Christians are getting caught up in debates about the origins, meaning and practices of Valentine’s Day and perhaps there is a place for this. On the other hand, maybe it’s time for a quick “check-in” … everything belongs to God and He is far greater than any...

Hebrews 10:24-25, “And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching” (NIV). A present...

The joke goes something like this, “Asked my counsellor who their counsellor was and went to see them. Asked them the same thing until I got to the final boss counsellor and defeated them with my train wreck of a life.” Two serious things stand out for me, (1) people...

MePeople has faith-based specialist Christian (biblical) pastoral counsellors. While that may sound like a mouthful, it must be seen in the light of the – faulty – widely held assumption that pastoral, spiritual and Christian counselling are one and the same. Let me...

Mary (not her real name) is a married middle-aged mother of 2 young pre-school children. She is a good wife and mother, yet something is troubling her. During pastoral therapy Mary mentioned that she is a mistake; her teenage parents never wanted her. Her mom had to...

Jeremiah 16:17, “I can see everything you are doing, even if you try to hide your sins from me.” Proverbs 15:3, “The LORD sees everything, whether good or bad.” Hebrews 4:13, “Nothing is hidden from God! He sees through everything, and we will have to tell him the...