Unknown,<br>I wanted to add this. There is the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation on this site. http://www.ccef.org They publish the Journal of Biblical Counseling. I ordered a couple sample copies and thought it was good. Perhaps someone else knows more about them. To give you an idea of this magazine, one of the issues I got from Spring 2,000 had an article from a sermon by Charles Spurgeon called The Valley of the Shadow of Death on depression. The other issue had a book review on Martyn Lloyd-Jone's wonderful book Spiritual Depression. It states in the inside cover that their mission is to "develop the church's wisdom in 'speaking the truth in love' "<br>In the book review section they reviewed The Freedom from Depression Workbook by Les Carter and Frank Minirth and after finding some good qualities in it about their ability to define depression accurately, they have this to say about it,<br>"The authors' weakness is that they present their information in such a way that repentance and dependence on Christ are not necessary for change to occur. They emphasize the importance of cognition and the ability to change one's thinking (and therefore, behavior) in successfully overcoming depression. Choices are evaluated as being "unhealthy" rather than sinful. People are encouraged to make "better choices", and are told they have the ability to discern "healthy traits"..."<br>This separates their thinking from the other "Christian Counseling" we have heard about. This is the medicine that really works based on God's Word. Yes, there is much harm in false teachings in this area.<br>Susan<br>SWW
