Let us reason pastoral counseling

Let us reason pastoral counseling Hello, I’m pastor Silas Clarke I am offering pastoral counseling through Star of Bethlehem Church

09/09/2026

Crucified by Christians?

“He came unto his own, and his own received him not.”
‭‭John‬ ‭1‬:‭11‬ ‭KJV‬‬

To be with someone that is your own it refers to an aspect of equality. Jesus shared the dna, the hair, the skin color, the occupation and so on of his surrounding brethren. A prophet isn’t without honor save among his own country and amount his own kindred. Jesus was led to the slaughter by his own people. Why? Where did most prophets emerge in the biblical text? Take into consideration the wilderness! Why did they end up in the wilderness? Because while they shared some similar characteristics of their brethren there was something unique about their own being. Something that while all of us share in common a finger print, a face, and yet each one is distinct and different. The place this is often discovered is in the wilderness of rejection. Our problem with rejection is miss guided because we have made it ego centric. Rejection isn’t about who you are it’s about allowing the greater person you can become emerge.

Jesus was despised and rejected of men, and yet he had a unique gift to be revealed in that rejection, VICTORY over death!

Your rejection experienced by a loved one. Parents asking you to move out. Bosses telling you to get lost, a pastor asking you to find another church. They are saying you are bad. They are saying you are equal with them and that the rest of your gifts and talents must be discovered else where. This doesn’t mean there cannot be reconciliations. But for their to be that both individuals must take their separation as a journey of growth. Jacob and Esau are the biblical equivalent.

A friend shared the book crucified by Christians by Gene Edwards. I’ve only read the first chapter and the Lord shared these thoughts with me and now I’m sharing them with you. God bless you and thank you for reading. If you desire pastor counseling through your church hurt please message me at my “let us reason pastoral counseling page.”

Supposedly, sixty five million Christians in America are disengaged with church due to hurt. The gospel has good news for you as well.

09/08/2026

In regard to Goliath:
“The sound of a single bad voice had shut down the Israelites. Can you relate? They’d lost the fight, and they hadn’t even gone to battle yet.”

In regard to God.
“They weren’t tapping into how all powerful their God was, and how if they would just trust him and follow him and lean into him, then they’d have access to that same power again.”

Louie Giglio, Goliath must fall.

09/06/2026

The difference between Jezebel-and Rehab was making the proper sacrifices.

09/06/2026

Everyone wants a cologne life when reality is B.O.

09/05/2026

Learning to be without offense.

In Psalm 119:165 the word offend does not mean “hurt someone’s feelings” in the modern sense.
The Hebrew word is מִכְשׁוֹל (mikshol, Strong’s H4383). It means a stumbling-block, an obstacle, or something that causes a person to trip and fall. The KJV translators themselves put this in the margin: “they shall have no stumbling-block.”
In the English of 1611, “offend” still carried the older meaning of “to strike against” or “to cause to stumble” (from Latin offendere). That is why later translations render the verse:

In our modern culture we have become focused on our feelings and how someone feels. I know that I have fallen prey to this incorrect idea of offense. We are quick to think that because someone has hurt our feelings that they have done something wrong to us; that is incorrect. If we let our feelings get the best of us we will stumble and that is the exact opposite of what remaining above offense means. The moral standard isn’t doesn’t it hit my feelings but doesn’t it make me stumble. The qualifying nature of the verse is that Loving Gods law causing us to remain above stumbling. What are the two greatest commandment of the law. Love God with all you heart and your neighbor as yourself. On this hang all the law and the prophets. What does that imply? If our feelings cause us to stumble at God or our fellow man we are loving our feelings not Gods law. Let God be true and every man a liar. Judge not lest ye be judged. Why because its not for your to know how the Holy Spirit is maturing and using that other individual. When we worry more about our relationship with God and give the same freedom to others we then become two strong pieces of iron that remain un-move able and and due to this we begin to sharpen one another. If you have ever sharpened a knife you know there is a certain angle and a certain amount of pressure to be applied also in relationship to the type of stone you are sharpening on. Two individuals are to remain steadfast and unmovable in who God has called them to be and that is between them and God as two different and gifted individuals work together they begin to sharpen one another. The problem today is that we are easily move able because we feel the desire to change fellowship with individuals if they don’t respect our feelings. We have put feelings above character and we have therefore lost the benefits of self improvement due to such. James Dobson wrote a book on “feelings, can you trust them?” The simple answer is no. What can you trust? The truth of God!

“But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.”
‭‭Romans‬ ‭2‬:‭2‬ ‭KJV‬‬

“And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?”
‭‭Romans‬ ‭2‬:‭3‬ ‭KJV‬‬

08/28/2026

You are to some great extent, a product of your environment!

“If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die. Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.”
‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭15‬:‭32‬-‭34‬ ‭KJV‬‬

In our IFB movement we desire to have a hymnal life style in a rap and rock culture. What does that imply? It is vitally important to take note of the environment you have yourself placed within. The hymns were born out of a culture that viewed going to hear the preacher as a form of excitement from their slow paced, more isolated, and less stimulating form of existence! Imagine living in a culture that the most stimulating part of your week was going to church!

The sad thing is we have noticed such a change, and cry out for the old time way. Well, if we want it the way the old timers had it, we got to get it the way that they got it. I believe there is a great value in the older way of things, in that it put value where values were meant to be!

In this day of every item is disposable and everyone’s effort is of equal value. We have lost what it means to value something. We say that we want it the old time way but have a scheduled that is pack (because we believe we have to keep up with the times or go under) and a neck that is growing spurs from being bent over our phones.

We are currently doing this and have grown hostile to the culture in which we are also in gaged in. Hostility doesn’t win a culture. It didn’t win you! Most likely if you are in the IFB you agrew up in it, or were introduced to it by someone who treated you like a father or mother in the faith.

So what am I trying to say? Do I mean that we should just fit in to the culture? Absolutely not! We are not to be conformed to this world but, be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
Am I saying we shouldn’t be upset about our culture? Absolutely not!
The wicked shall be turned into hell and every nation that forgets God.

What am I trying to say? Be the culture that leads to a hymnal life style. The opportunity we have here is not to be more stimulating than the world like the church used to be in the past; it is to be less. David called it a sanctuary for a reason. He lived a very stimulated life, but he found the house of God to be a place of rest.

The answer is there is a transforming power behind the doors of Gods house and whatever type of culture you find yourself in God can transform it in the sanctuary with him. What’s going on behind the pulpits to often today is an over stimulated preacher that is angry at the culture in which he also find himself to be a part of no matter how separated he is.

Why don’t people come? Because they are already being stimulated and filled with hate. What the church needs to be today is a place of rest for the weary soul! Come out from among them and be ye separate faith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing. The unclean thing permeating our culture today is overstimulation and hate.

08/19/2026

…”The feminist movement is exposed for what it truly is: a group of radicals who claim to speak for the American woman but in truth misrepresent her and use womanhood to advance the cause of homosexuality, lesbianism, and radicalism.”

Tim Lahaye, battle for the family.

08/19/2026

Competition in the home?

“Married partners should be lovers not competitors. But the drive to take women out of the kitchen and compel them to compete on an equal basis with men is not conductive to the promotion of harmony between mates. A true partnership is based on interdependency: two people who are complementary to each other. Just as one cannot unilaterally procreate another human being, but must sexually complement a mate in that function, so in many other areas the husband and wife function best together. In fact, the best marriages are those in which the partners appreciate each other’s distinctive gifts and realize they can accomplish far more by cooperation with each other than either could achieve alone. This awareness will inspire the willingness to sacrifice their individual self-centered desires for the greater corporate good. Couples need each other and will never be truly happy until they realize that. The feminist obsession with “my rights as a woman” often comes at the expense of a woman’s rights and responsibilities as a wife. This usually leads to hostility in a marriage.”
Tim LaHaye the battle for the family

08/16/2026

“The Protestant work ethic has been destroyed by humanists, who have taught millions of our youth that they are not responsible for their station in life-government of society is. That philosophy strips the individual not only of self respect, but of self-denial, self control, and personal ambition, which are required for success in any field”
Tim Lahaye

08/15/2026

Does God forget?

“What does it mean that God remembers our sins and iniquities no more (Heb. 8:12)? This important statement is quoted again in Hebrews 10:16–17. Does it mean that our all-knowing God can actually forget what we have done? If God forgot anything, He would cease to be God! The phrase “remember no more” means “hold against us no more.” God recalls what we have done, but He does not hold it against us. He deals with us on the basis of grace and mercy, not law and merit. Once sin has been forgiven, it is never brought before us again. The matter is settled eternally.
As a pastor in counseling ministry I have often heard people say, “Well, I can forgive—but I cannot forget!” “Of course you can’t forget,” I usually reply. “The more you try to put this thing out of your mind, the more you will remember it. But that isn’t what it means to forget.” Then I go on to explain that “to forget” means “not to hold it against the person who has wronged us.”

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