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Encouragement: The Key to Caring is unavailable, but you can change that!

Encouragement. It's more than a compliment or a pat on the back. According to Drs. Larry Crabb and Dan Allender, it is the most basic form of counseling -- a skill that can be mastered by laypeople as well as counselors. What must we know in order to fulfill the biblical exhortation to 'encourage one another'? Encouragement: The Key to Caring tells you. Part one deals with understanding...

but we may express our acknowledged emotions only when such expression will further God’s purposes. To state this principle more simply, we are to handle our emotions by (1) privately acknowledging our feelings to God and to ourselves, and (2) subordinating the expression of our feelings, in both timing and manner, to the goal of ministry. Because some believe that denying release to strong emotions can be psychologically harmful, it is important to understand a critical point: emotions cause problems,