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If you’re like most pastors, you find counseling a sweet and sour experience. You’ve known the joy of unraveling a problem, of saving a marriage, of guiding a young life, of becoming bonded with your people. Yet you’ve also known the weariness and frustration of insoluble and complex and unremitting difficulties, of midnight emergencies, of failures, divorces, fights, and problems, problems,...

me what trail to pursue. A woman who had been sporadically attending our church with her husband and daughter called one day to request an appointment for herself and her husband. I asked if she could sketch her situation over the phone. “We have some business and marriage problems,” she said. On the day of their appointment, I prayed beforehand for guidance. “Lord, I sense a lot of things need to be dealt with here, and I need to handle them in their proper order. I’m not sure what that order
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