We’re serious about producing In This Together! Want proof? Last week we captured our first In This Together interview. The interviewee? Pastor Jonathan Holmes, a counseling pastor at Parkside Church in Chagrin Falls, OH. As I’ve mentioned, Jonathan is the author of the book The Company We Keep: In Search of Biblical Friendship. Jonathan is good friends with our … [Read more...]
5 ways to help counselees find friendships
Too often, when self-sacrificial love is required to form friendships, we isolate and hunker down in our own foxholes of safety and security. Over the years, I’ve noticed that a large majority of the people I see for counseling have few to no friendships in their life. Indeed, for many of them, some of the exact conversations we have with them in counseling, they could be … [Read more...]