Workshops
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A Closer Look at Anxiety
Anxiety can feel nebulous and overwhelming until you begin to dissect it and peel back some of the layers. Bigney unpacks some of the details
A Way Through Conflict: Have Convictions But Pursue Love (Rom. 14)
Sadly, Christians can sometimes create more conflict instead of less because they do not understand how to balance God’s call to have convictions (based on
Additional Counseling Resources
Counseling PDI List of Brad’s Most Used Resources in Counseling Homework Assignment Form Full Prayer Journal Prayer Journal Refills Sermons for Homework:
Are We There Yet? (Knowing When to Graduate Your Counselee)
Both releasing your counselee too soon and dragging it out too long can be detrimental to the spiritual walk of your counselee. After 30 years
Back to Grace – How to Not Turn Your Counselee into a Pharisee
Most of the counseling we do is with believers who would claim to be saved by grace but there’s a dark side to this ‘saved
Basic Marriage Counseling
Floor Tile Exercise Instructions None of us want to be guilty of cookie-cutter counseling but who wants to start with a blank sheet
Biblical Sorrow vs. Sinful Complaining
People are hurting in our broken world and need help recognizing the appropriate place for biblical sorrow that stops short of sinful complaining and accusing
Biblical View of Sexuality
Download Outline Article: Is Masturbation a Sin?Outline: Biblical View of Sexuality from ACBC ConferenceOutline: “Woman to Woman” from Meaning of Marriage Conference25 Steps to AdulteryTelling
Common Diagrams in Counseling
It’s amazing how a ‘fuzzy’ truth can become a ‘hammer’ that breaks through the confusion when you not only say it but draw a picture
Comparison of Counseling Philosophies
Download Outline Handout: Questions to Clarify a Counselor’s Counseling Philosophy
Complaining
Bigney digs below the surface to look at the heart of a complainer that is fed by a cluster of sins. And then points the
Conflict – Understanding, Avoiding, Growing through Conflict
So much of our counseling involves resolving some type of conflict – whether in marriage, or parenting, or work situations. Find out what the Bible
Counselors Should Be Good Theologians
As counselors, we’re coming alongside hurting people to help them process what’s going in their life, as well as please God. For this reason, we
Desperate Parenting
Parenting, more than any other calling, can bring you to the very end of yourself – and that’s not all bad. God calls us to
Doubting the Goodness of God (Psalm 73)
As you come alongside people who are hurting, you’ll find that along with their painful circumstances and unsettled emotions, they often struggle with doubt as
Fasting for Spiritual Breakthrough
What do people who fast look like? Do you think of someone strange? Legalistic? Someone who never laughs or smiles? Bigney will give reasons why
Feeling Abandoned by God (Psa. 88)
Christians are not immune to depression, so God’s Word stands ready to help us. And part of that help can be found in some of
Getting a Marriage Unstuck
How does a marriage between two people who initially loved each other turn into war or settle into a silent stalemate? Where would you start
Getting to the Heart of Real Change (Prov. 4)
How do people really change? And where does the Bible call us to focus when we want to make significant and lasting changes that will
God’s Grace in a Season of Suffering (Brad and Vicki)
After 35 years of both marriage and ministry, Brad and Vicki together share what God has taught them through the seasons of adversity they’ve faced
Grace – The Missing Ingredient
Counseling is more than just a string of Bible verses, some diagrams, and some accountability. The only hope for the counseling process to keep moving
Growing Counseling in the Local Church
26 years ago Brad joined a group to plant a church that would have biblical counseling at the heart of it. In this workshop he
Guilt & Repentance
Download Outline Repentance Worksheet on 2 Cor. 7Article: The Unrepenting Repenter by Jim Elliff