Making Peace With the Past IBCD - Institute for Biblical Counseling and Discipleship

How should Christians think about their past? How does your answer affect the way you process life’s challenges? How does it affect the way you counsel? This two-part session will explore what God’s Word says about the importance and potential impact of events from your past.

Is suffering part of the context of your life? In this look at Psalm 28 you will learn from King David's example how to live a life of trust. You can accept God's plan for your life as you come to know his character and chooose to believe his promises.

If God is sovereign why do certain things happen the way they do? This message from Ecclesiastes expounds the truth of God's sovereignty, the validity of wanting to know why, and God's remedy for His children in this life.

Is your past “one big lump”? Is it possible that some of us have challenges in this area in part because we have not thought as precisely and specifically as God’s Word would direct? This session will attempt to help us identify biblical categories for events from the past.

The birth and growth of the biblical counseling movement, like all movements, has many strengths and weaknesses. This message contains the professional, pastoral and personal reflections of the biblical counseling movement at 45 years.

Many people struggle with bitterness about what has happened to them in the past. Like Naomi, they may even be embittered against the Lord. How does one counsel a Naomi? This session will explore a case study of a male version of Naomi.