Loading…

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...

sincere versus insincere words or perhaps between consistently shallow versus meaningful words. Everything is wrong with insincere and predictably shallow words. They encourage no one. The prophet Jeremiah indicted the religious leaders of his day for healing the wounds of God’s people superficially (Jer. 6:14). A physician who diagnosed a potentially fatal condition that surgery could cure and who then prescribed lots of liquid and two aspirin a day would be guilty of malpractice. The priests of