Statements of Faith

 As a professional Christian counselor I set forth the following beliefs that are essential to my treatment philosophy and ministry.

• I believe the Bible to be the inspired, infallible, inherent, authoritative Word of God.
• I believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. He has revealed Himself in creation, history, and in Jesus Christ.
• I believe in God’s creation of the world and man, and in man’s rebellion and subsequent depravity.
• I believe in the person and work of Jesus Christ, including His deity, His virgin birth, His sinless life, His true humanity, His miracles, His substitutionary death, His bodily resurrection, His ascension to heaven where He sits at the right hand of the Father, and in His coming personal return in power and in glory.
• I believe that for the salvation of the lost, sinful man, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential. I believe that salvation is by grace alone through faith in Christ as one’s Savior.
• I believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life and to grow in the knowledge of God and Christian obedience.
• I believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost – the saved unto the resurrection of eternal life with Christ, and the lost unto the resurrection of eternal damnation.
• I believe in the spiritual unity of believers in the Lord Jesus Christ and in the importance of the church for worship, service, and missions.
• I believe in the sanctity of life.
• I believe in the importance of marriage, and although the Bible states that divorce is permissible in two unusual circumstances (adultery as described in Matthew 5:31, and abandonment of a Christian by a non-Christian as described in 1 Corinthians 7:15), I will do all that I can to preserve marriage.
• I believe that all truth is God’s truth. As such, psychological principles should be thoroughly evaluated through the grid of Scripture, with Scripture always holding the final authority.

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