http://veritascounseling.com/blog Veritas Counseling - Patrick Doyle Mon, 31 Dec 2007 18:58:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en May God continue to extend his compassion through your hands, his truth through your voice and his love through your heart. We thank God for Veritas Counseling and for your passion to help people build intimate relationships with God. From A Veritas Client http://veritascounseling.com/blog/?p=15 By Patrick Doyle, Founder of Veritas Counseling Adultery is the byproduct of someone being completely self-consumed. No one ever gets into a situation of adultery instantaneously. It happens gradually as we harden our heart toward God until we reach the point of breaking our marriage vow. God said to Moses, “Okay. ... http://veritascounseling.com/blog/?p=14 December is a big month for viewing Mars. It is the bright, fiery "star" shining with a steady glow in the east during evening. ... http://veritascounseling.com/blog/?p=13 By Ron Kirkegaard, MS, LMFT We all have ideas in our mind about what a perfect marriage should look like. But is our thinking about marriage correct? No, says author Michael McManus, founder of Marriage Savers, an organization dedicated to the preservation of marriages and conversely the reduction of the divorce ... http://veritascounseling.com/blog/?p=12 By Ron Kirkegaard, MS, LMFT I know there are indeed differences between men and women other than the obvious physiological ones. I also have to admit that I am having trouble coming up with hard, fast characteristics that are applicable to all men or all women. In my opinion, it ... http://veritascounseling.com/blog/?p=11 By Patrick Doyle, Founder of Veritas Counseling Often in marriage, people don’t know how to communicate. You don’t get a course in it at school. Unless your parents were good at it, they taught you bad habits and so you come to this marriage with all of these things ... http://veritascounseling.com/blog/?p=10 Were the midwives justified in lying to the Egyptians to protect the Hebrew babies from slaughter? Was Robin Hood justified in lying to the oppressive French to help feed his starving British countrymen? Was it right for Rahab to lie to protect God’s spies from the people of Jericho? ... http://veritascounseling.com/blog/?p=9 Most Americans know October 31 as Halloween. But some of us celebrate October 31 as Reformation Day. Here is a Reformation Day Q&A with the Rev. Robert E. Smith of Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Learn about Reformation Day or more about Luther and Project Wittenberg. Q: Reformation ... http://veritascounseling.com/blog/?p=8 Step outside October 25-26 to see the biggest full moon of 2007. It's no illusion. Some full moons are genuinely larger than others and Thursday night's will be as much as 14% wider and 30% brighter than lesser full moons we've seen earlier this year. Check http://spaceweather.com for the reasons ... http://veritascounseling.com/blog/?p=7