A Christmas Message of Hope The eyes of the audience were fixed on Jesus as he walked up to the podium in the Jewish Synagogue on Shabbat and read from the scroll of the prophet Isaiah. “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor. He has sent Me to [...]
BREATHE IN HEALING We have all heard the phrase “the breath of life”. In Genesis God breathed into Adam and Eve to bring them to life. In Acts, Paul tells us that God gives to all people “life and breath and all things”. Every moment we are alive we are breathing. Taking time to [...]
How can we have wisdom and faith to wait on the Lord? Betsy O'Callaghan, LMFT How can we have wisdom and faith to wait on the Lord, to trust in Him when all around us our world is being turned upside down? One of the blessings I am seeing in the midst of so [...]
We are facing things in our world that we have never faced before and it is easy to get caught up in the fear and confusion that is so rampant in this season of the COVID -19 pandemic. How can we step back from the constant news updates and look for where we can [...]
Love and Manipulation We hear the word “love” so often that sometimes we get it confused. God describes His love in 1 Corinthians 13. If we put our name in the place of the word love, for example, Betsy is patient, Betsy is kind, do we see that kind of love evident in our relationships? [...]
In this New Year I have been seeking the Lord and asking His Spirit to show me what can be my focus, my area to grow stronger in and to be pruned to bear fruit for His kingdom. The words I am pondering are to choose and trust. Choose what is best with my [...]
EFFECTIVE CLINICAL WORK WITH PEOPLE SUFFERING FROM MAJOR MENTAL CONDITIONS What follows is a summary of the seminar presented by Ernesto Vasquez, MD at the April, 2019 meeting of the Network of Christian Counselors. 1. To understand the neurobiology and psychology of major mental conditions more accurately in order to help the sufferers more [...]
