Maturing in Christ
Maturing in Christ
Mike Lawyer
Maturing in Christ is a podcast from the Center for Biblical Counseling, a ministry of Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho, hosted by Pastor Mike Lawyer. Dr. Lawyer is certified by ACBC and ABC, has a DMin in Biblical Counseling from Westminster Theological Seminary, and has over 30 years of pastoral experience. Our prayer is for this podcast to be a helpful and practical resource in understanding methods to Biblical Counseling and ultimately to encourage and present everyone mature in Christ. All of Christ for all of life!
Manner of Discipline Part 1
In this multi part series Dr. Lawyer lays out the manner in which Christians should discipline their children while further emphasizing what the ultimate goal of discipline should be. For more information and resources, please visit: https://www.cbcmoscow.com/
Dec 29, 2020
9 min
Jesus Laughs
It is important to notice all the emotions Jesus felt and exhibited. It is important because as we work to be like Christ, we need to also imitate his emotions. We tend to have a very cerebral Christianity, sometimes working hard to eliminate any culturally unacceptable emotions. But Jesus feared, he laughed, he cried, he was angry, he had lots of emotions and he had them all strongly. But he also felt them for the right reasons and expressed them in the right ways.
Dec 16, 2020
9 min
Maturing in Christ: Episode 37
God gives authority to parents to lead and discipline their children, and He takes that authority seriously. In this podcast Dr. Lawyer further discusses biblical elements related to the God given authority of parents. For more information and resources, please visit: https://www.cbcmoscow.com/
Oct 28, 2020
36 min
Maturing in Christ Podcast
God gives authority to parents to lead and discipline their children, and He takes that authority seriously. In this podcast Dr. Lawyer discusses biblical elements related to the God given authority of parents. For more information and resources, please visit: https://www.cbcmoscow.com/
Oct 10, 2020
6 min
Episode 34 - Theology Framework: Part 2
Pastor Mike talks about choices and sanctification (both initial and progressive).
Sep 19, 2020
23 min
Episode 33 - Child Discipline: Part 3
Pastor Mike talks about more reasons for the need to discipline our children: The eternal direction of our kids requires it; the temporal direction of our kids requires it; the love we have for our kids requires it; and the command of God requires it.
Sep 16, 2020
28 min
Episode 32 - Theology Framework
One of the things about Biblical Counseling that people tend to think not that important is theology. But theology is behind everything we do and is especially important in the Counseling process. What the Biblical counselor thinks about God, man, salvation, and sanctification (upward change) is extremely important if he or she is to be a faithful representative of Christ to hurting people. So, today, we want to talk about theology.
Sep 4, 2020
23 min
Episode 31 - Child Discipline: Part 2
Sep 2, 2020
13 min
Episode 30 - Child Discipline
This is the first episode of a series on Child Discipline. It is about the context of discipline which is love. Love needs to fill the home and characterize the home or discipline will not work and in fact, will produce ugly children. Pastor Mike refers to Doug Wilson's book, Standing on the Promises and Jim Wilson's article, Saturation Love (found in How To Be Free From Bitterness).
Aug 28, 2020
17 min
Episode 29 - Starting Over
When we come to Christ we get to start our lives all over again. All clean and pure. This is so that we can worship and walk with God. But also, after we are in Christ, every time we sin, we get to go to God and start all over again. But what this means is that we need to extend this same grace to others and let them start over again. And, if we refuse to forgive them, it shows that we might not have actually believed that God has given us this great gift.
Aug 26, 2020
16 min
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