by Krista I am so thankful for the Wonderful Counselor who offers to train me in wisdom as I study His Word. What an awesome task to teach His Word and I find myself frequently overwhelmed by my own inadequacies and totally dependent on Him for wisdom. Today, we look at that attribute of our Holy God. A wonderful attribute of God is His wisdom. Because we are often so acutely aware of our lack of wisdom, it would be hopeless to have nowhere to turn to gain wisdom. Yet, our Fa

by Joel Authority is the reliability of Scripture. It is the reality that compliments “inspiration.” In other words, because God is the Author (i.e., the Origin of the words represented in Scripture) then He has the “authority” to back up His Word(s). To disbelieve or disobey Scripture is to disbelieve or disobey God.[1] The Bible claims this for itself. (2 Timothy 3:16 states, “All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and

by Joel Inspiration is the breath (2 Tim. 3:16) of Creator God communicated through the words that make up the cannon of Scripture we call the Holy Bible. The inspiration of God is upon the words (or writings), not the authors. Why is this significant? Although different books or sections of the Bible take on the author’s unique experience and literary style, the ideas or concepts did not originate from the author, but from God. Technically, God was the author and the ones wh

by Krista Today’s question was something that really came alive before I started my counseling training. In those early years after we got married, when Joel and I were really struggling to make our relationship work well, we went to a church that was well-respected in our area for counseling. I remember walking in for the first session on a snowy afternoon and the receptionist gave us a stack of forms to sign before we started. One of them had to do with the authority of Scr