Category: Key Articles

When You Feel a Lack of Joy

We all want to experience more joy in life. Jesus prays this for us, asking the Father for us to have the fullness of his…

Soul Shepherding Institute Certificate Reading List

Books Recommended by Bill & Kristi Gaultiere Sometimes a book opens our heart to heaven. Other times it offers us new, God-inspired paradigms for life…

A & B Conflict Resolution Tool

Here’s a little tool that offers BIG help for resolving conflicts in marriage and other relationships: “When You Do ‘A’ I Feel ‘B.'” It’s a…

Jesus, Psychotherapy Research, and Life Change

Some people who seek help with personal struggles from a counselor get help resolving their problems while others do not. Some clients in psychotherapy overcome…

Assisting the Wonderful Counselor

Early in my graduate training to become a psychologist I offered counseling to a young female undergraduate student with my professor and class watching and…

A Deeper Life in Christ is Holy and Happy

Yesterday on my Sabbath day I read a little book by the early 19th Century Scottish preacher Robert Murray McCheyne, The Deeper Life. He died…

How to Read the Sermon on the Mount

I was taught in seminary that the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5 to 7) wasn’t one sermon of Jesus’, but a collection of his…

A Christ-Centered Board of Directors

Today it’s common for cultural leadership models and motives to overtake our Christian churches and organizations so that the way we do what we do…

Four Degrees of Love (Bernard of Clairvaux)

“Love is the fountain of life, and the soul which does not drink from it cannot be called alive.” These are the ancient words of Bernard…

Notes From “An Unhurried Life”

Readers of our Soul Shepherding Devotionals will know that being unhurried with Jesus is a theme I often write about. That's because hurry is such a problem for many of us. So I was thankful to have Alan Fadling, a friend and colleague of mine, give a talk for a group of pastors and leaders on his new book, An Unhurried Life: Following Jesus’ Rhythms of Work and Rest. Here are my notes.