Dying to Get In

BP105 On a bright summer day, my wife and I drive four hours down to the small southwestern Minnesota town where I had attended middle school and high school. I…

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Darkness Sucks–Light Fills

BP104 This post is going to be concise and pointed. The single theme is that if Jesus is pumped out of our culture, some type of vacuum will be created.…

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Borderline Personality Disorder and Jesus

BP103 The most difficult part of living on this planet for John is relationships. People always (in his experience) disappoint him and eventually end up abandoning him. They are always…

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Pre-Evangelism: Birth of the True Self

BP 102 There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms ~ George…

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WITH

BP101 I don’t know about you, but there are many words I use every day that I have never taken time to define. Unlike words like sesquipedalian or supercilious, I’ve…

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Giants in the World and in Your Heart

BP99 What is it about giants? They often appear as ogres and overall bad characters who haunt the nightmares of little boys and girls. I remember when my children were…

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Should I Be in Therapy?

BP98  Today’s blog will consist of an assortment of responses to statements and questions about therapy from the perspective of a Christian who happens to be a psychologist. Some of…

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The Deadly Danger of Oysters

BP97 In my decades of work as a clinical psychologist there are unhealthy attributes I daily encounter in people that indicate a less promising treatment outcome unless that attribute is…

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The Rumbling, the Thundering, the Groaning

BP96 I am diverging a bit from my usual blogging routine to announce in this post that I have a book entitled, The Rumbling Beneath, that will be published in…

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