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The Journal of Pastoral Practice: Volume 10, Number 4, 1992 is unavailable, but you can change that!

For nearly 30 years, the Journal of Biblical Counseling (previously the Journal of Pastoral Practice) of CCEF (the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation) has provided a forum for biblical counseling’s development and application. The journal’s mission is to develop clear thinking and effective practice in biblical counseling through articles that faithfully bring the God of truth,...

a good word about Jesus. And now I can’t forgive myself for squandering the opportunity to get what I had been longing for.” “I had happiness in the palm of my hand and dropped it!” The person proudly acts as if he could control the world and guarantee getting what he wants. When his desires are thwarted, the result is self-reproach and a haunting case of “if only I had …” He is blind to his underlying urge to control his own happiness. We see this in Sally and her collapsed desires. She wanted the
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