Counseling Corner
The Bible is just as relevant today as it was when it was written two thousand years ago. It gives us practical advice and tools to help us deal with everyday issues like stress, anxiety, depression, parenting, finances, sex, etc. As a Marriage & Family therapist and pastor, Isaac Johnson utilizes scientific research and biblical truth, to help his listeners understand why they do what they do and how to do what they do better.
Episodes
April 18, 2024 • 30 mins
This is my last episode of Season One for this podcast. If God allows I hope to do a second season down the road. With that in mind, I thought it might be fun and helpful to highlight my Top Ten Topics and give one, overarching principle for each of them, kind of like a season in review. If you want more info on a particular issue from this episode, you can go back and listen to earlier episodes that addressed your interest in m...
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March 22, 2024 • 22 mins
Anxiety is one of those emotions, kind of like anger and sadness, that has gotten a bad rap. While none of us like feeling anxious that doesn’t mean anxiety is a useless emotional state. In this episode, Isaac gives four, practical benefits of anxiety and tells us what we can do to make anxiety work more for us instead of against.
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March 14, 2024 • 17 mins
None of us like the feeling of disappointing someone. We don’t want to hurt a person’s feelings, so we water down the truth. We do things out of guilt because we don’t want someone to “feel bad.” We even avoid disciplining our kids due to our emotional insecurity. In this episode, Isaac explains why disappointing others is not only unavoidable, it’s often necessary in order to love them the way God needs us to.
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February 29, 2024 • 15 mins
One of the lies that Satan has tricked many of us into believing, even people in the Church, is that Sexual Chemistry is something we either have or don’t have with someone. This justifies our attempts to discover it by sleeping around in search of our perfect chemical match. In this episode, Isaac uses science and scripture, to not only dispel this myth, but show us how we can develop the sexual compatibility we long for in our ...
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February 22, 2024 • 21 mins
When it comes to temptation our natural tendency is to accept it and do our best to resist it. But what if there’s a better way? In this episode, Isaac explains why God doesn’t want us to just resist sin, in our lives, but actually strive to ELIMINATE it, Isaac also provides us with two, practical strategies to help us accomplish this task.
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February 15, 2024 • 15 mins
It’s Valentine’s Day week. Valentine’s Day is a holiday most women look forward to while many men dread. It’s not that men are anti-love, but they generally don’t like being told when and how they should show love, and let’s face it, Valentine’s Day often does feel like forced love. In this episode, Issac explains why men often unintentionally view loving their wives as a burden, when God intended it to be a blessing. Isaac als...
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February 8, 2024 • 13 mins
Knowing the WHY is a natural, human desire. But when it comes to making lasting, positive changes in our lives insight alone is rarely enough, in this episode, Isaac identifies two dangers in only pursuing the why, and gives practical steps we can take to help us turn our hopes into realities.
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February 1, 2024 • 20 mins
Knowing what direction God wants us to go in, especially in regard to major life transitions,is something all of us desire. But how do we know if we’re on the right path? In this episode, Isaac gives us Four Indicators that help us determine if we’re operating in God’s Will, or if we need to do a little more prayerful research.
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January 25, 2024 • 19 mins
Verses like Ephesians 5:22 and I Peter 3:1-2, which admonish women to respect their husbands in marriage have become a little controversial over the last 40 years in the church, and indirectly in society. In this episode, Isaac explains why God commands this of women and how God uses respect and submission to bless a woman, mature her, convict her husband, and protect the woman if God needs to judge the man’s unrepentant sin.
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January 18, 2024 • 20 mins
Not too long ago inviting people over to our house for dinner was the norm. But unfortunately, hospitality has become more of an anomaly these days, even amongst Christians. In this episode, Isaac shares with us why he believes hospitality has fallen out of style and what we can do to make it more commonplace in our homes, our community, and especially the church.
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January 11, 2024 • 19 mins
What can we do to be a blessing to someone in our lives who is suffering? And what behaviors do we need to avoid to make sure we are not an unintentional burden to them. In this episode, Isaac gives us Four Dos and Four Don’ts, to help us minister more effectively to people in crisis.
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January 4, 2024 • 22 mins
Research tells us that only 9% of Americans actually follow through on their New Year’s Resolutions. In this episode, Isaac gives us five, practical reasons why most of fail in this area and strategies we can implement, starting today, to make sure 2024 is the year we give ourselves the gift of a better version of us,
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December 14, 2023 • 17 mins
Christmas is supposed to be a magical time of the year where we look forward to spending time with family. But for far too many of us, Christmas family gatherings are something we dread rather than a time of fun and fellowship. This is because we tend to hope for the best, do nothing to change things, and then endure the worst for one more year. In this episode, Isaac gives us three action steps we can take preemptively, to incr...
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December 7, 2023 • 16 mins
Procrastination is one of those habits that most of us would agree is not healthy, yet find ourselves engaging in on a regular basis. In this episode, Isaac explains why we procrastinate and three, practical and Biblical strategies we can implement to combat it more effectively in our lives.
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November 30, 2023 • 18 mins
While the holiday season is generally a joyous time of the year, I know that for far too many of us it can also be an occasion marked by pain, loneliness, and sorrow, as we are reminded of loved ones who are no longer with us or past holiday traumas or tragedies that we feel forced to relive year after year. But God doesn’t want us to just survive, He wants us to learn to thrive in any season of our life. In this episode, Isaac g...
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November 22, 2023 • 19 mins
When it comes to our hurts, habits, and hang ups, which are just nice synonyms for our addictions, there are no easy answers. This is because most addictions are rooted in deep psychological, spiritual, and emotional wounds that typically originated in our childhood prior to age 12, and they cannot be healed by taking a pill, reading a self-help book, or just trying harder. In this episode, Isaac explains the destructive role sha...
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November 8, 2023 • 15 mins
While most of us find conflict physically and emotionally unpleasant, and see it as something to avoid, both the Bible and Science show us that conflict can not only be extremely beneficial in relationships, but is actually essential. In this episode, Isaac shares three benefits of healthy conflict and why God wants us to initiate it and embrace it in our lives.
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November 1, 2023 • 12 mins
We’ve all heard the saying, “If you don’t have anything nice to say don’t say anything at all.” But this perspective is not only unhealthy, physically and emotionally, it is unbiblical as well. God, and people, don’t mind hearing our grievances, as long as we express them in a positive and productive manner. In this episode, Isaac uses the example of King David in the Bible to illustrate how we can complain without blaming, or b...
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October 25, 2023 • 22 mins
When it comes to communication most of us would automatically focus on someone’s words and tone as determining factors of a good communicator; however, this would be an incomplete perspective. The truth is that people who demonstrate good communication skills listen way more than they speak. In this episode, Isaac shares with us why listening is so impactful and Four Listening Traits we need to develop in order to fully love othe...
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October 11, 2023 • 21 mins
Divorce is one of the most traumatic experiences a person can go through in life. Yet too many people try to heal by going out and finding another relationship, before they are ready. In this episode, Isaac gives us five steps of healing a person should work through after a divorce, before even considering a first date.
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