Happy Birthday America!!

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The United States may be young by global standards, and may not factor into Bible prophecy, but the Lord has allowed America to maintain the freedoms to assemble, to worship, to participate in everyday life, and to help spread some of its freedoms to other parts of the world.

50 Years of BCF Ministry: Supporting the Local Church

This is the Biblical Counseling Foundation’s 50th Anniversary Year! And we wanted to use this blog to pause for a moment and thank the Lord for His great faithfulness and for the many servant-hearted people in the local church with whom we have been privileged to minister.

Loneliness and the Scriptures

 As I have asked around about lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the more frequent responses has been on the topic of “loneliness.”

Bare-Minimum Mondays

Some of us have great bosses and colleagues; others struggle with difficult work relationships. But the great unifying principle we have as believers is that we ultimately work for the Master of the universe.

Virtue and Virtue Signaling: What’s the Difference?

It is not our job to be the judge of those who appear to be signaling their virtue. Jesus said of the hypocrites three times in Matthew Chapter 6 that “they have their reward in full” (i.e. earthly praise).

New Year’s Resolutions: What Do the Scriptures Say?

The difference is that, as believers, we can now make these choices out of gratitude for what God has done for us rather than out of worldly motivation, which usually involves a sense of obligation, fear, or pride (the “look what I did” incentive).