5 Top Christian Blog Posts of the Week: 5 to Live By
Linking you to the top 5 Christian blog posts of the week—posts that provide robust, rich, and relevant insights for living. 
2 Sides of One Counseling Coin: Biblical and Nouthetic Counseling
Over at The Gospel Coalition, Heath Lambert pens an in-depth response to the question of the relationship between “nouthetic counseling” and “biblical counseling.” He begins like this:
“Explaining the difference between nouthetic and biblical counseling is a bit like asking whether a coin is heads or tails. A coin is both heads and tails. In talking about the heads side or the tails side of the coin, we are merely emphasizing different surfaces of one thing.
Such is the case with the today’s conservative, Bible-based counseling movement. The language of “nouthetic” or “biblical” serves to emphasize different streams inside one, larger movement. First, I will explain why nouthetic and biblical counseling are two sides of the same coin, and then I will explain the differences that each side emphasizes.”
Read the rest of Heath’s insights in Two Sides of the Counseling Coin.
Why New Churches Should Sing Old Songs
Here’s an excellent post that resonates with concerns I have about many of the “contemporary praise hymns.” Stephen Miller serves as Pastor of Worship Arts at The Journey in St. Louise. In this Gospel Coalition post, Pastor Miller writes about Why New Churches Should Sing Old Songs.
5 Differences Between Small Group Ministry and Group Therapy
Lina AbuJamra is a blogger I follow regularly. She’s the Women’s Ministry Director Harvest Bible Chapel and a Pediatric Emergency Physician in Chicago. In today’s post, she discusses a topic that is of great interest to me and should be of great concern to the church: distinctions between small group ministry and group therapy. She list five important distinctions. Read her convicting thoughts and assess your own small group ministry in Small Group Versus Group Therapy.
8 Principles of Church Unity
We often mistakenly separate theology from unity, as if they are two different categories. Pastor Kevin DeYoung reminds us that we need a Theology of Church Unity. He suggests eight “bullet point” starting principles and encourages pastors and theologians to develop more.
29 Questions for a Pastor’s Heart
Paul Tripp writes that:
“You see, it is absolutely vital to remember this: A pastor’s ministry is never just shaped by his knowledge, experience, and skill. It is always also shaped by the true condition of his heart. In fact, if his heart is not in the right place, all of the knowledge and skill can actually function to make him dangerous.”
He goes on to list 29 questions for a pastor’s heart in 29 Things that Shape a Pastor’s Ministry.
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