Dr. David Lombard

02/23/2026

I am so excited to be running a breakout session at the International Refocus Conference this Saturday, February 28th, at The Pointe Church. This will be a wonderful day of worship, training, and fellowship. Please consider joining us - Food will be served :)

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06/26/2025

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04/17/2024

This verse has impacted me in many ways over the years. When I was young, this verse caused me to try not to act foolishly or make big mistakes because I didn't want to disappoint my parents. I believed my mistakes caused my parents to be very disappointed in me and feel grief and bitterness. But later in life, I realized that is not what my parents were actually feeling about my foolishness.

As I got older, God gave me a much different insight into this verse. Now that I am a parent, I realize that my parenting grief does not come from disappointment in my child because of their foolish choices. My grief comes from my feeling that I failed my children by not instructing them well enough to avoid that foolish choice. Instead of anger or disappointment in them, I try to be patient, understanding, and console them about what has happened, and then later give them the guidance that I obviously forgot to give them in the past. (Please note that I wrote "I try to." I still make mistakes because I am very much a work in progress myself.)

04/04/2024

I love this verse. God reminds us that all our behaviors (the spring of life) flow through our feelings. If I fail to guard my feelings and give in to this world's hate and despair, then negative and sinful behaviors flow out of me. But if, with vigilance, I keep my heart centered on Jesus's love and forgiveness, then everything that flows out of me should include kindness, acceptance, and assistance.

04/03/2024

For most of my life, I thought I was wise and knew best how to plan my life. I had fooled myself into believing that I should not listen to God's wisdom about sin and evil. I thought that living a little sin here and there was fine. I felt that evil would not get a grip on me. Eventually, I learned that sin and evil are much more powerful than I thought. Sin and evil had taken over my life. God opened my eyes to the truth that He, not me, is powerful enough to put sin and evil actions out of my life. Once I began to live a life of fearing the Lord and obeying his wisdom, my life became a daily joy. I live a life that is incredibly blessed now because of Him.

03/25/2024

11 Critical Depression Symptoms Christians Must Know. This week's blog post will help you quicker recognize and understand depression in yourself and others. The quicker we know, the sooner we can get on the path to God's recovery for our life.
https://thechristianpsychologist.com/depression-symptoms/

03/23/2024

I try to live out this verse through three steps. First, I spend time looking around my world to really see all the wonderful blessings, big and small, that I have been given by God. Second, I remind myself that those blessings were not given to me to hoard for myself or my family. God gave them to me to share. Third, I share the bounty I have been provided with those in need. Do you want to know a secret? When I share the bounty with others, my bounty and blessings increase fivefold with joy, happiness, and satisfaction.

03/21/2024

Movies and TV often show that a person sacrificing themself or taking great risks for others somehow magically makes up for all their mistreatments of others. God's message is different. He tells us that how we treat each other is much more important than how we sacrifice for others or for Him. We are blessed that Jesus is the only one who needed to sacrifice for us to have eternal life. Now that we have eternal life, God tells us to treat each other well every day, as if we have to tell Jesus about that day when we get home, which we will have to do.

03/20/2024

As an old gray man, I appreciate this verse. The young have the strength to get things done, and the old have the wisdom to know what needs to be done. When I was young, I exercised my body daily to build strength and endurance. Now, much older, I train my mind daily by reading, listening, and praying to develop my knowledge and wisdom.

03/19/2024

"A man's discretion makes him slow to anger, and it I his glory to overlook a transgression." Proverbs 19:11.

03/18/2024

Check out my blog post for this week. I review some excellent marriage advice tips from the book Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage. https://thechristianpsychologist.com/marriage-advice-tips/