Audios
Helping Women Who Are Married But Lonely
Many married women feel alone and isolated from their spouse. How can we help women who find themselves in this situation? What does the Bible have to say about the intimacy we should have in marriage, and what should we do when we find our expectations are not being met?
Helping Women Come Safely Off Anti-Depressants (with their doctor’s help)
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This workshop offers practical tips for working with a counselee and their doctor as they come off an antidepressant. It also includes a section that explains the theory of chemical imbalance and why psychiatrists are now saying it is not true.
Helping Wives Whose Husbands Struggle with Pornography
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When husbands struggle with pornography their wives need help too. This workshop discusses giving hope and practical direction to the wife, teaching her Biblical resources that God has given to protect her and helping her take her thoughts captive.
Helping Singles Think Biblically About the Past, Present, and Future
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The New Testament has a shocking view of singleness. This workshop examines the blessings and challenges of a single life and gives practical suggestions for helping singles see the grace of God at work in them and through them and how the church can better minister to them.
Guarding Against Gossip
The sin of gossip is easily overlooked or minimized but affects relationships and is destructive within the church. This workshop will cover the dangers of this particular sin of the tongue and discuss examples the Bible gives as well as the hope it offers.
Graceless Sex
How can sex be graceless? This workshop, for women only, will explore the sinful attitudes and actions that many women fall in to, that can stifle or even completely kill the physical relationship between husband and wife.
Grace Sex
What does grace have to do with sex? In this workshop, for women only, you will learn how the grace God has given in Christ can and should overflow into a gracious and healthy physical relationship between husband and wife.
Feelings, Something More than Feelings 2
Where do our feelings come from, what do they tell us about ourselves and what can we do about them? Part 2 of this two-part seminar shows how emotions are a good-gift from the Lord when they are rightly directed toward Him.
Feelings, Something More than Feelings 1
Where do our feelings come from, what do they tell us about ourselves and what can we do about them? Part 1 of this two-part seminar examines how our core beliefs, faith, thoughts and actions impact our emotional makeup.
Equipping Women to Uproot Bitterness
Bitterness can easily take root in the heart when we’ve been hurt or offended or we believe something has happened to us that is unfair or unjust. This message will examine evidences of bitterness, ruling motives, and practical steps to rooting it out for the glory of God.
Depression and Anxiety
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Emotional pain can be an opportunity when it calls attention to the fact that something is amiss with our hearts. This session explores several diagnostic questions to help determine the root cause of depression and anxiety and point us toward repentance and faith.
Deeper Discipleship for the Unruly, Fainthearted, and the Weak
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We know we are to admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted and help the weak, but how do we really do that? This session will seek to answer that question with specific counsel and instruction for three case studies: Unbending Ursula, Worrisome Wanda, and Fragile Franny.
Counseling Sexually Abused Women and Children
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Because sexual abuse is so prevalent women counselors need to understand how the Bible helps females who have been sexually abused. This workshop will examine the biblical way to deal with the shame and emotional pain of the victim and the role of the church in helping them.
Counsel from the Cross 3
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What is gospel-centered counseling? Biblical counselors need to use the law and gospel in counseling in a balanced way, giving gospel obligations in the context of gospel declarations. This is part 4 of a three part series based on Elyse's book Counsel from the Cross.
Articles & Handouts
Respecting Your Husband…
A 12-question quiz for wives to examine whether their actions communicate respect or disrespect to their husbands. Each question includes the biblical basis for self-reflection.
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Danielle’s Story – Behind the Scenes of an Observation Video
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Daelynn Romo is a wife and mother of three, an active church member and a friend of IBCD. She is also the face of Danielle, a counselee in one of IBCD’s Observation Videos. At the urging of her husband, Danielle comes to seek counsel from her pastor’s wife after an old struggle with an eating disorder re-emerges. We asked Daelynn to talk with us about her experience and to share her own story.
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