Toward “Air Traffic Control” in International Biblical Counseling Training: An Appeal for Inter-Agency Cooperation Dr. Wayne A. Vanderwier Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity! (Psalm 133:1) Eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. (Ephesians 4:3) It just happened again. Overseas Instruction [...]
Blessed is the one who finds wisdom … She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her. (Prov. 3:12, 15) It is normally expected that those being trained to help others through biblical sufficiency-based soul care ministries will themselves first be touched by the grace of [...]
January 19, 2017 … and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also. 2 Tim. 2:2 It seems impossible to believe that Overseas Instruction in Counseling is already a little more than 10 [...]
Dr. Wayne A Vanderwier Published April 1, 2016 The date? February 2, 2016 The place? Higher Rock Christian Church, Quezon City (Metro Manila), Philippines The event? The organizational meeting for a new national biblical counseling ministry: Biblical Soul Care Philippines The Background Overseas Instruction in Counseling, a faith-based [...]
Dr. Wayne A Vanderwier Published October 20, 2015 “And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works…” (Hebrews 10:24). The concept of “cultural imperialism” has been the subject of innumerable books and journal articles in the Christian missions community (and the missions [...]
Dr. Wayne A Vanderwier Published July 9, 2015 American ethnocentricity can have devastating consequences. To be clear, I’m an American. And I’m grateful for the blessings God has made available to me as an American. One of those favors is that, like most of the people reading this blog, [...]
Dr. Wayne A Vanderwier Published May 16, 2015 Ministry Blessings Here is one of those obscure “internet research” facts: People do not typically click on a link or a file in an email to open it. If the information they want is not in the text of the email, [...]
Dr. Wayne A Vanderwier Published April 23, 2015 Watching God Change Lives One of my greatest joys is watching God change lives. That statement could probably be made by all of us in the biblical counseling movement. For most of us that would mean watching God change the [...]
Dr. Wayne A. Vanderwier Published May 22, 2014 Hurdles… The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. John Greenleaf Whittier [...]
Dr. Wayne A Vanderwier Published March 10, 2014 A World-wide Update “The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become.” ― Henry Martyn As I write, Susie and I are enjoying a week at home between our [...]
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