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How Do You Respond to Anger? Good and Bad Ways found in the Bible

By Dr. Paul Schmidt on August 18, 2021

USING ANGER TO MAKE OR SOLVE CONFLICT by Dr. Paul Schmidt Resentment vs. Peacemaking Anger is the normal human response to injustice. When faced with hurt, it guides and motivates our efforts to correct an unfair situation. When justice is seen through the eyes of divine love and mercy, the anger is […]

Biblical Insights and Questions about Sexual Sin

By Dr. Paul Schmidt on August 10, 2021

(Each paragraph can be a private devotional, or a class for group discussion.) The Bible gives in rich detail how life unfolds for people who fall into sexual sin. It was pure visual seduction for David when he laid eyes on his neighbor’s wife Bathsheba (2Sam 11). His heart followed his eyes in violating the […]

Being Positive with Children Who Aren't

By Dr. Paul Schmidt on August 1, 2021

Almost every child from time to time acts negative. They act like they want to ruin things for everybody—peers, adults and even themselves. At times like this, if you're the care-taking adult (parent, teacher, grandparent, babysitter, child care or day-care worker), you're going to have a hard time knowing why or how to be positive. […]

Is it a Bad Habit, Sin, Disease, or Addiction

By Dr. Paul Schmidt on July 26, 2021

IS IT A BAD HABIT, SIN, DISEASE, OR ADDICTION? At most big family gatherings, there will be an alcoholic, a nicotine user, or a drug abuser present. The table likely plays host as well to a few non-chemical bad habits that also threaten the family. Nearly every family has folks who have an eating, […]

How Codependents Enable Addicts

By Dr. Paul Schmidt on July 26, 2021

With any addiction to chemicals or to a habit, loved ones trying to help addicts need to realize and continually remind themselves of three things: “I didn’t cause the addiction, I can’t control it, and I can’t cure it either.” But you can make it easier for addicts to keep their addiction going. How? The counterproductive efforts people make to help and reform their addicted loved ones […]

Love, Sex, and Gender: WHAT MAKES US HEALTHY?

By Dr. Paul Schmidt on July 23, 2021

How parents can discuss these things with teens When I was a teenager, and especially when I left home for college, I had trouble refraining from certain things just because I was told not to do them. Even if I saw it in the Bible written as something not to do, in order to […]

HOW TO WORK A 12-STEP PROGRAM

By Dr. Paul Schmidt on June 30, 2021

HOW TO WORK A 12-STEP PROGRAM What exactly is a 12-step program? It is the people, principles, prayers, and lifestyle practices of recovery from addiction that was started by Alcoholics Anonymous back in the 1930’s. To work a program successfully, you need all four—the people, principles, prayers, and practices. You can’t just read and learn […]

How to Avoid both Emotional Infidelity and Irrational Jealousy

By Dr. Paul Schmidt on June 13, 2021

EMOTIONAL INFIDELITY vs. EXCESSIVE JEALOUSY Of all the columns I’ve written, this is the one I’ve had the most requests to send out. Now because of social media, the following is a much longer version of the column I first wrote years ago. Though it will talk about marriage, it is also meant […]

3 Meetings for Restoring Marital Trust

By Dr. Paul Schmidt on December 22, 2020

About Disclosure, Impact Survey, and Restitution Full Written Disclosure The first section here is the outline about how to make your written disclosure, with your wife’s counselor present for her. Your disclosure includes your behavior only, not your thoughts and feelings, not the behavior of others, not why you did it, just a thorough inclusive […]

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Dr. Paul F. Schmidt

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