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Biblical Counseling - Emotions*

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Thinking biblically about what the world calls mental illness, since Christians get our worldview from biblical truth so we can not make excuses, take action, as we get correct help, and conquer sin, to live right and holy lives. This sublist is to provide some assistance as you work through enotions and submit to controlling and conquering them in a biblical way. I hope it helps you have victory over the issues.  Examining Emotions   Understanding how our sins are an assault on Gods character Dealing with Emotions:  Conquering these sins... Anger & Pride  Anxiety Bitterness Discontentment Depression Hatred Insomnia  Panic attacks Stress More- Dealing with Emotions: * Tackling emotions biblically * Gaining mastery over your emotions This further tackles emotions   here   * Do your emotions control you? Here is how to take them back  * What to do when emotions take over your life * Feelings arent facts; how to let Faith lead your life Unde...

Nouthetic counseling -medicine?

"Do Nouthetic counselors oppose the use of medicine?" Of course not. From the outset of the Nouthetic movement we have worked closely with physicians. We feature them in training programs, publish their books, and refer people to them regularly. That is a totally false charge that is often made against us. Now, we are careful to distinguish between true disease and that which does not have an organic etiology. We are concerned to see that medicine not be used to obtain pain relief while by-passing non-organic causes of some difficulty in living. Roughly speaking, there are two types of medicine. One is supplementary to bodily output. For instance, if the body is not producing insulin as it should, we think it is proper to add insulin from the outside. Or, if one is suffering from atrial fibrillation we believe in taking a beta-blocker in order to achieve a normal, steady heartbeat. The use of medicine in such cases helps the body to function *as it was supposed to function.* ...

Transformed: Counseling

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Free Self Counseling Resources Library  We are not professional Counselors or in the medical/mental field, we are simply believers providing helpful resources for you to look at things from a biblical point of view to help you with these issues, so you can move from brokenness to wholeness... to live victorious in Christ.  Thinking biblically about specific issues is important since we Christians get our worldview from biblical truth, & we can not make excuses, need to get correct help, change our way of thinking, take correct action, and conquer sin, to live right and holy lives. The below can provide helps for you, to correct your wrong expectations and mindset, & conquer problematic sins, once & for all, and provide guiding counsel in other areas. Use browser search and find feature for key word search, for fast results, or scroll to browse for topic.    God bless. Note Feb 2025: Some links may be broken at the mome...