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A Christian’s Guide to Mental Illness

A Christian’s Guide to Mental Illness:  Answers to 30 Common Questions, David Murray and Tom Karel Jr..  Wheaton: Crossway, 2023.  […]

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21 April 2025

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The Abuser’s Toolbox: Love Bombing

Abusers are master manipulators.  They know how to manipulate people and situations in such a way that they appear innocent.  […]

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21 November 2024

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Highlights of A Christian’s Guide to Mental Illness

This book promises to be “ruthlessly practical.” And it is. Written by a psychologist and a pastor, both of whom […]

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13 November 2024

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The Abuser’s Toolbox:  Gaslighting

Abusers are master manipulators.  They know how to manipulate people and situations in such a way that they appear innocent.  […]

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29 October 2024

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The Abuser’s Toolbox: Flying Monkeys

Abusers are master manipulators.  They know how to manipulate people and situations in such a way that they appear innocent.  […]

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23 September 2024

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A Wise Guide to the Mental Health Minefield

Mental Health and Your Church: A Handbook for Biblical Care, Helen Thorne & Dr. Steve Midgley.  Charlotte:  The Good Book […]

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19 June 2024

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How to Detect an Abusive Guy Before Tying the Knot

Knowledge is power and, when it comes to relationships, one of the most important bits of knowledge is how to […]

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31 October 2023

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Good News for Psychiatric Sufferers

I Have a Psychiatric Diagnosis: What Does the Bible Say?, Edward T. Welch.  Greensboro: New Growth Press, 2022.  Softcover, 88 […]

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11 September 2023

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When Hopes Go Astray

A Still and Quiet Mind: Twelve Strategies for Changing Unwanted Thoughts, Esther Smith.  Phillipsburg: P & R Publishing, 2022.  Softcover, […]

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19 June 2023

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Vile, Wretched, Miserable, Blind?

Heath Lambert’s A Theology of Biblical Counseling is a rewritten, updated, and improved version of Jay Adams’ A Theology of […]

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30 May 2023

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What I Won’t Tell You If You’re Depressed

Each Sunday as I look out over my congregation from the pulpit, I’m aware that a fair few of the […]

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21 June 2022

Depression

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The Pastor as Counselor

You can read my review of David Powlison’s latest (posthumously published) book here at Reformed Perspective. It’s helpful for more […]

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21 July 2021

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The Unbiblical – and Common!! – Way to Handle Reports of Abuse in the Church

Sin is like fungus: it grows best in the dark. We need to keep exposing this wickedness to the light. […]

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3 May 2021

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Jay Adams, Pioneer of Nouthetic Counselling, Dies at 91

Jay Adams died on November 14, 2020.  He was 91 years old.  If his name is familiar, it’s probably because […]

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Rev. Wes Bredenhof (B.A., M.Div., Th.D.) is pastor of the Free Reformed Church in Launceston, Tasmania. Read More
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Books by Wes Bredenhof

Get to Know the Holy Spirit

Published 2024

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Aiming to Please

Published 2020

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Seven Wondrous Words

Published 2019

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