Category: Soul Care Basics

Topic: Soul Care Basics   —   Key Scripture: Psalm 139:23-24 People ask me fairly often what soul care actually is, looking for a distinction from counseling in general or a Sunday sermon or a good self-help conversation. It’s a fair question, and I think the honest answer starts with a prayer that most of us find…

Topic: Soul Care Basics   —   Key Scripture: Joshua 3 and Matthew 12:9-14 There’s a detail in Joshua 3 that gets skipped over too quickly, because we already know how the story ends. Israel is standing at the edge of the Jordan River, and it’s at flood stage — not a trickle, but a genuine barrier.…

Topic: Soul Care Basics   —   Key Scripture: John 5:1-9 There’s a question in John 5 that sounds almost cruel until you sit with it long enough to feel its weight. Jesus is at the pool of Bethesda, surrounded by people waiting for healing — the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. He walks up to one…

Topic: Soul Care Basics   —   Key Scripture: Matthew 25:40-45 There’s a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from caring for someone the world has quietly stopped noticing. I remember sitting in many different hospital rooms over the years — sitting with people who had strong families, and those who only had regrets — watching nurses…

Topic: Soul Care Basics   —   Key Scripture: Acts 9:3-4, 8-9 “As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?’ …Saul got up from the ground, but when he opened his…