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Insights on mental health, faith, and well-being from our team of counsellors.(138 articles)
On Buddhist Impermanence and Christian Counselling
I had the privilege of meeting a Buddhist practitioner who shared with me the concept of Impermanence. Impermanence is one of the core concepts of Buddhism that teaches us that nothing in the...
Psycho-Spirituality and Christian Counselling
I want to begin by setting the definition that “spirituality”, in the current context of mental health or psycho-spirituality, simply means our relationship to God. So, when we say I have a “healthy...
Dr. Strange - Our Awareness to Spirituality
I like this movie because you can see more of Hollywood 's push for spirituality. All of us are attracted to this realm which we instinctively know exists. Well guess what? This is what the Bible has...
Spiritual Greed and Faith
"Oh you of little faith!" No verse in the Gospels shows The Lord Jesus' frustrations as when He is scolding His disciples saying: "Oh you of little faith!" At first, The Lord Jesus said this to the...
Trinity: God is Love
In my first year of University I took a class in philosophy. I had no idea what philosophy was and thought I would just take the class and see. At the start of the first lecture, the lecturer sat on...
History, Jesus and the Easter Bunny
It’s that time of year again for hot cross buns and chocolate! Let that Easter bunny hide chocolate eggs around my house and I won’t question why a bunny would do that, who cares? Chocolate is so...
Is it good to be sin-conscious? Is that what God really wants?
The answer straight up, is no. To say God wants us conscious of the sins which have been removed from us, as far as the east is from the west, is to contradict and confuse ourselves1. It is to say...
Christmas Day: Their Hope, Our Reality
He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. John 1:10 Jesus created the world (Col 1:16), yet when He walked on it, no one recognized Him. Water blushed at His...
The Power Behind Prayers
For the sake of definition and communication, I use the word prayer to refer to behaviour that is used to engage in a personal 2-way communication with God. In this way, prayers involve a...
Anger Management: Jesus' Way
Managing one’s anger and hatred is not uncommon in the battlefields of Christian Counselling. After all, anger is a basic (and probably universal?) reaction to frustration and pain; and we are...