Community of Grace Biblical Counseling Ministry

12/30/2025

Biblical Soul Care Class starts Sunday morning:
"The Walk of the Wise, The Way of the Fool"
Teacher: Pastor Blake Shaw, Room 803; 9:00-10:15
Join us for a 20-week study in the book of 1 Samuel as we work our way through this incredible book and consider the ways of the foolish person in contrast with the walk of the wise.
This book provides incredibly insightful input into how we, as God's children, ought to live. For more information, contact Pastor Blake at [email protected]. Class begins January 4 and
continues through May 17.

03/28/2025

Our Summer Pre-Conference: The Church and Pastor Finances Preconference on July 16, 1-5:30 pm. $25. Very helpful insight and information for deacons and/or people involved in the finances of a local church.

We will be discussing:
-pastor compensation packages,
-how the housing allowance works from both the pastor's view and -the church's view,
-tracking church expenses and income,
-what to report for church finances,
-why to have a church budget,
-we will have example documents for designating housing
-allowances, benevolent policies, etc...,
-information on church software packages, and a variety of other related topics.

If you have questions about any of these topics, or others related to pastor and church finances, please let Eric Gee know and register for the preconference. [email protected]

We would love to have you attend!

For more info:

Biblical Counseling Conference – July 17-19, 2025 Church Financial Pre-Conference – July 16, 2024 Use the button below to register. More info coming soon! Click here to sign up to help serve before or during the conference! If you sign up for 4 or more volunteer slots, your conference registrati...

02/18/2025

Received a message today that this page is being suspended because of a violation of meta policy but I have not been on this page since September 8, 2024. Is that the policy violation...too much time between posts?

09/08/2024

Perhaps one of the most commonly debated theological points throughout modern church history is the Sovereignty of God. Anyone who has thought through theological issues has most likely found themselves wrestling with this absolutely critical doctrine. And in light of this book, probably most of us have said something like, "I think God was trying to get his/her attention." Or something like that.

In this book, Osman and Rich take on a mindset that our culture is inebriated with: God trying. To set the stage, the authors rightly explain how when someone uses the term, "trying" there is an implication to it that failure is a possibility. In other words if I said, "I am trying to get my lawn work done today," there is a looming possibility that I might fail. But God doesn't try. He doesn't fail. Ever. So in light of that, the authors take on the following topics: 1) God doesn't try to save His people; 2) God doesn't try to sanctify His people; 3) God doesn't try to speak to His people; 4) God doesn't try to provide for His people; 5) God doesn't try to build His church; 6) God doesn't try to organize His church; 7) God doesn't try to prosper His church; 8) God doesn't try to control creation; 9) God doesn't try to execute justice; and 10) God doesn't try to establish His kingdom. God doesn't try. He does! Each chapter addresses the issue, if God is trying...then it suggests that failure is possible and God does NOT fail. Osman and Rich take on the harder issues and subjects regarding God's sovereignty and give a reasonable and well thought out answer to many objections that are raised regarding God's sovereignty. Each chapter ends with an exhortation to church leaders and the final chapter includes words of encouragement to leaders and to believers who find themselves in various types of churches.

As a whole, I think this is an excellent book. The one weakness that I note, which will possibly be a turn off to some readers, is that at various points, the authors use sarcasm regarding those who might hold to a different view. Many readers I would think possibly have not embraced the unbiblical views with dogmaticism but have never really had a different view presented to them. I wonder if a shepherding approach (versus sarcasm) to those people may invite them to think differently about the doctrinal mindset they have held throughout their lives and perhaps win them to a Biblical way of thinking.

08/23/2021

Advanced Biblical Counseling: In this class we will take a look at a variety of issues related to Biblical Counseling, going beyond the Basics class that we offered last year (or that is covered in Track One at our annual conference). For example, some of the lectures/discussion will focus on the Apologetics for Biblical Counseling, Who Should Counsel?, Counseling and God's Attributes, Counseling and the Image of God In Man, Counseling Those who Live in the Fear of Man, Freedom from Freud, Leaving Your Past Behind, Counseling the Elephant in the Room, The Resistant Counselee, Why Counseling Fails, and the critical role of the Local church in the Counseling Process.

There is no prerequisite for this course. Attenders are strongly encouraged to be faithful in attendance to maximize the learning throughout the semester. The class begins September 12th and goes until December 19th. The class will be in Room 802 at Grace Bible Church, from 9:00 to 10:15 a.m. Teachers are Dr. Craig Rowe and Pastor Blake Shaw. For further questions, feel free to contact Blake. We hope to see you there.

05/20/2021

11 Days left to register and save some money...Hope you will join us for Biblical Counseling Conference, 2021. July 15-17

08/09/2020

Community of Grace Counseling Center starting up soon. Details to follow in coming weeks.

04/27/2020

Just wanted to make sure that everyone knows that our annual conference held in July has been postponed until 2021. All speakers and topics are the same for 2021. Thanks.

02/17/2020

For some encouragement today...

I have, in many ways, lived a very easy life. Sure, I’ve had my share of difficulties—I’ve lived, after all, in this broken world and not some perfect paradise. And while I know there isn’t a lot of value in comparing my little suffering to other people’s greater suffering, still I underst...