Sovereign Care Counseling

04/23/2026

Our hearts determine our calendars.

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. (Matthew 6:21, ESV)

The things we love, we make time and space for in our lives.

04/22/2026

"When the heart is well-ordered, we are not only increasingly free from sin, but also increasingly free from the desire to sin." - John Ortberg

04/22/2026

The goal of care is not found in giving impressive answers—it is faithful presence shaped by wisdom.

04/21/2026

At the end of the day, all debates will cease at the feet of Christ and in light of his finished work. Click to read Christ and Counseling, a Substack publication. Launched a month ago.

04/21/2026

To reduce our suffering to mere biology is to shrink both the power of God and the dignity of his image-bearers. Fear, grief, loss, and the weight of sin are not malfunctions — they are the groans of souls made for glory, living in a world gone wrong. Our suffering runs deeper than our neurons.

04/21/2026

We are pleased to share Brandon Burks' synopsis and review of David Powlison's course, Theology and Secular Psychology, at Westminster Theological Seminary. As Dr. Burks remarks, this course provided "a thoroughly Van Tillian application of engaging with secular theories." Check out the full article below.

https://reformedcounseling.org/article/david-powlison-and-cornelius-van-til/

04/21/2026

We live in a culture that prioritizes self-fulfillment and introspection over reliance on God and community. Explore how functional belief and therapeutic culture are reshaping faith — and how a reformed vision can reorient your life. Read the full post: https://wix.to/DcX8qZC

We live in an actively therapeutic culture that is drawing people away from the church, in search of self-fulfillment, preference, and introspection, without God. We were designed to be reliant on God and the community He has given us.

04/20/2026

As biblical counselors, we ought to be able to show our counselees their functional beliefs in action. Oftentimes, what they say they believe is different from what they live out to be true.

04/20/2026