A Prayer to Strengthen Your Identity in Christ
Without a friend who feels our hurt, stress, and longings with us our souls shrivel up and die. Giving and receiving empathy are key to life in Christ.
Help for Unruly Emotions About the Election
We have feelings about who will be the next US President, as well as the other offices and propositions on the ballot. When the election…
Breaking Secret Agreements – Collusions
Unconscious collusions in relationships harm people in families, friendships, church staffs, and work partnerships. In this case “collusion” does not refer to a conspiracy or…
7 Health Benefits of Meditation
From ancient times God’s people have known that meditation on Scripture promotes health in body, soul, and relationships with God and others. More recently numerous…
Healing Prayer: Praying For Physical or Emotional Healing
Have you ever seen something that brought you distress or even traumatized you? Do you have any harmful images you’ve internalized that periodically come back to upset you?
Letting Go of a Dream Can Bring Life
It hurts to let go a dream, but sometimes it’s for the best. By the age of thirty I’d written three books with mainline Christian…
Healing Prayer: Praying For Physical or Emotional Healing
With Insights From Pastor Joe Johnson with Heart of the Father Ministries* Kristi and I were fortunate to receive instruction in healing and deliverance ministry…
Jesus’ Ministry As the Wonderful Counselor
As a Christian psychologist it’s been important for me to look to the Lord Jesus Christ as the perfect psychologist. I look to him as…
Inventory of Emotional Wounds From Your Mother or Father
How were you cared for as a child? How well were your needs met? What were your early experiences in your relationships with your parents…
Good Grief: A Process of Emotional Healing
We have loved ones that die. We suffer losses that hurt. Do we grieve or repress our emotions? Here are the stages and process of good grief with insights from the Bible and psychotherapy.
1,000,000 Visits in 2015 — What Are the Top Ten?
In 2015 SoulShepherding.org received just under one million visits! That’s almost 3,000 page views per day. This is up 10% from 2014 and brings our…
The Gentle Protector You Need
In his book Joy Starts Here Jim Wilder says that every child and hurting person needs a Gentle Protector. A Gentle Protector is someone who has power…
