There is no worthy discipline that anyone can enter into and acquire credentialing easily and have the skills to function at a competent level, e.g., certificate for completing a gun class, swim class, driver’s education, or summer cooking class does not make you competent.
When Jenn Chen received her doctorate in clinical psychology, she gave me a list of the things she had to do to become a psychologist. I won’t list all of them here because it is so much, but here are a few bullet points.
1. You must get accepted into grad school, i.e., GRE scores, past grades, shown interest in psychology, and recommendations.
2. 1st year: intensive supervision
3. 2nd-5th years: 16-20 hours a week practicum, with one-hour supervision and two hours of group supervision
4. 6th year: 40-hour week internship
5. If you pursue licensure, you add 2,000 hours under a licensed psychologist.
6. Every two years, you complete 36 hours of continuing education.
Some would argue that it’s comparing apples to oranges, and I would agree. They are peddling false integrated teaching, and we are ministering God’s Word to broken souls. Who should be more zealous and thorough in their equipping? https://rickthomas.net/podcast/ep-317-the-false-assurance-of-knowing-something/
The shocking and inspiring story of Sophie Ottaway.
Watch the full interview here: https://lifeovercoffee.com/podcast/ep-490-sophie-ottaway-engineered-at-birth-to-be-a-girl/
Focus on the Cause, not the Effect, so you can remove the cause and not be affected by the effect.
A local church’s worship value is not primarily about the music but the lifestyle because you never ask, “Are you worshiping?” The reason is that we worship all the time. God made us for worship—wired us for worship, you could say.
Worship is part of what it means to be image-bearers. Who could do otherwise? The better question is, “What or whom do we worship?” https://lifeovercoffee.com/three-characteristics-of-a-fantastic-local-church/
Whenever a person chooses sinful anger, he is, in effect, giving the other person control over him. It’s counterintuitive. In his anger, he is like a marionette, a puppet on a string.
Anger toward someone is the total submission of their thoughts, attitudes, emotions, and behaviors to the other person. It is not self-control, as governed by the Spirit of God, but someone out of control or under the control of another spirit. https://lifeovercoffee.com/podcast/ep-110-help-for-the-angry-person/
