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The Christian Counselor’s Manual: The Practice of Nouthetic Counseling is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Christian Counselor's Manual is a companion and sequel to the author’s influential Competent to Counsel. It takes the approach of nouthetic counseling introduced in the earlier volume and applies it to a wide range of issues, topics, and techniques in counseling: ·Who is qualified to be a counselor? ·How can counselees change? ·How does the Holy Spirit work? ·What role does hope play? ...

There is in the gospel a double hope: (1) the hope for the eschaton (the last time, the future), which is bound up with the coming of Christ, the resurrection of the body, and the erasure of sin, pain, and tears. This, with its crowning hope-the presence of Christ-is the great hope of the Christian. It includes the hope (expectation) of final perfection. But that is not all. Christianity is not merely pie in the sky bye and bye when you die; indeed, Christians can start slicing today! (2) There is
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