Category: Psychology
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Idolatry: The Sickness in Your Soul
[This post is part of the Idolatry series] A close friend of our family had continuing health problems during my last year at home before I moved to Dallas. She was generally always cheerful, but had slowly turned less so as she became sicker and sicker, and there was little to no explanation why. Finally, during some…
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Change: Closing Thoughts and Transition
In some ways, this may seem like an abrupt left turn in terms of blog content. However, I’m not sure how much can really be addressed in terms of how people change. All that would be left is specific application, and apart from case studies, that is not particularly feasible. Too short excurses are in…
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Change: Theory and Practice
It may be best as this point to continue onward, having hopefully established an underlying philosophy to the counseling task.[1] In terms of counseling theory, it should be noted that at the bottom of every counseling theory is a theory of personality, and at the bottom of every personality theory is a theory of motivation.[2]…
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Change: The Arena
[This post is part of the Change series] I know for the most part, this probably looked like another dead end blog idea. Something of the sort that picked up speed, clarified some issues, but then ultimately failed to connect it all back to anything of practical value. Indeed, it has been a while since…
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Change: Moving from God to Man
[This post is part of the Change series] This particular entry comes directly from a paper I just finished entitled “A Christian Philosophy of Change.” And you thought I just blogged for the fun of it. Actually, to the contrary I do blog for the fun of it, but I also blog wisely and pick…
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Change: An extended background
[This post is part of the Change series] I know we ended the last post stating that our discussion of change would start with the Gospel, and indeed, that is a good place to start. Unfortunately, do to my recent reflection on just the idea of change generally as well as how that relates to…
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Change: An Introduction
[This post is part of the Change series] When starting on a new idea, especially when the idea is still germinating in somewhat abstract form, it’s hard to find a good point to make first. Maybe the idea is not all that abstract but what I want to dive into in this series involves a…
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Toward a Trinitarian Worldview: The Soul
“Thinking of my personhood being grounded in the Trinity,” said Martin, “How does that establish an understanding of human nature?” Seeing the gears turn like this made Vasiliy smile, “We trace our grounding of humanity in God back to Genesis 1, where God said, ‘Let us make man in our own image,’ so that would…