Jason Kovacs
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Husband. Father. Counselor. Church Consultant. Executive Director @gospelcareco Council Member @biblicalcc Adjunct @heritagecs @millarcollege Metis 🇨🇦🇺🇸
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Big week for our family! My wife and I celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary and our son is officially a US Marine!
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Our pastor came to our house this morning for a pastoral visit. It was a indescribable blessing. We drank good coffee and he listened to us share a little more of our story. Then he prayed for us and encouraged us.
A couple reflections:
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The Church = God's answer to fostercare
Top # = children waiting for adoption
Bottom # = churches
#OrphanSunday
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If you are suffering, depressed, and see only darkness today - you are not alone. Remember:
- Jacob’s limp
- Joseph’s tears
- Job’s agonies
- David’s Psalms
- Elijah’s desire to die
- Hannah’s weeping
- Jeremiah’s lamentations
- Paul’s thorn
- Jesus in Gethsemane
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The Church = God's answer to fostercare
Top # = children waiting for adoption
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#OrphanSunday
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Recently I have been waking up in the morning with more anxiety than normal so I have been praying Jesus prayer from Gethsemene. Many days I can barely make it through the first half without my mind spinning off into a thought. So I start again and keep praying.
Sometimes I fall
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There are a few things that are bothering me about a public apology going around online by a well known pastor of a large church.
One, it is a terrible model for others to follow and many will follow it. This is a lead pastor speaking to tens of thousands of people. People will
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This is not biblical counseling, this is biblicist counseling. And it’s harmful.
“There’s no such thing as PTSD. There’s no such thing as OCD. There’s no such thing as ADHD.”
— John MacArthur
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If you are suffering, depressed, and see only darkness today - you are not alone. Remember:
- Jacob’s limp
- Joseph’s tears
- Job’s agonies
- David’s Psalms
- Elijah’s desire to die
- Hannah’s weeping
- Jeremiah’s lamentations
- Paul’s thorn
- Jesus in Gethsemane
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Our oldest just finished his
@USMC
School of Infantry and shipped out across the country. He's not sure what the future holds as a Marine. Would love your prayers for him and all the other young men and women who are serving our country in these days!
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This is so sad! The town of Jasper, AB is devastated. Thinking of everyone who lost everything and the long road to rebuild
#JasperWildfire
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The Church: God's answer to fostercare
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#OrphanSunday
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Had a great day hanging out with my friend
@BillboardChris
and
@realJamesKlug
in Laguna Beach!
Overwhelmingly people agree with this message! The handful that disagreed refused to have a conversation.
Children cannot consent to puberty blockers.
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I often encourage my clients to do this exercise. This morning I’m doing it myself and it’s been so helpful.
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@BillboardChris
Reminds me of the child welfare official we met in Laguna Beach who was about to retire. At first she didn’t want to talk but then said screw it the issue is too important not to speak about no matter the consequences!
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Here are 10 ways churches can help their pastors serve with joy (Heb 13:17):
1. Pay them fairly.
2. Ensure they are sabbathing. Let them keep healthy boundaries.
3. Provide a generous sabbatical every 4-7 years.
4. Cover 100% of any counseling they and their family need
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1. Visitation is a powerful and vulnerable pastoral practice. Our dogs jumped on him and an old watch alarm in a drawer of ours went off. He entered into our daily life just as Jesus enters into our world.
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“Christ is closer to me than I am to myself.” - St Augustine
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Thank you
@BillboardChris
for a masterclass this afternoon on gender ideology and how we can do our part to speak truth and protect our kids!
Great space today. Thank you to everyone who joined.
If you’re new to this discussion, I think you’ll find this space very informative and helpful.
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There is a popular parenting principle in the church that says obedience should be immediate and cheerful and if it isn’t we use the rod.
"Delayed obedience is disobedience."
"Obey with a happy heart."
Where does the Bible require this of parents and children?
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No anniversary or birthday but just want to say I love this woman and ask you to pray. My wife has battled a whole host of health issues over the years. The last 3 years in particular have been worse than ever. Through it all God has been so faithful and sustained her and us. We
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4. If you are a pastor and have considered visiting your congregants I highly encourage you to give it a try. Another way to do it is visit them at work like
@justinbuzzard
does.
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3. We felt seen and heard. That is a beautiful thing to experience. He knows us a little bit better and how to specifically pray for us. He will share that with the other elder and prayer team to further care for us.
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This morning our church announced that our small network of churches raised over $200k to provide gospel-centered, clinically-informed, affordable counseling to our members!
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Here's a tip for your church sabbatical policy:
1.5 days for every month worked.
Write that in the benefits package and require pastors take a sabbatical for refreshment & renewal every 5-7 years.
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Shout out to all my friends like me who didn’t read a book a week in 2022 but read parts of 15-20 books! 👊🏻
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Trauma not grieved becomes stagnant in depression, numbed through addiction, projected through scapegoating, avoided through spiritual bypassing, spiritualized through a martyr complex. We live in traumatic times. Take care of yourselves. -
@chuckdegroat
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2. It didn't take much time to do this. He spent an hour and half with us. I believe that investment will have exponential benefits.
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A brother in our small group the other night described joy as a slow burn of peace.
I’ve been thinking of that ever since.
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Happy 21st birthday to my oldest son! I don’t know a more adventurous, compassionate, and faithful young man. Our country is blessed to have him serving. So proud of him!
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Major prayer request!
A pastor friend’s 6yr old daughter had a serious head injury today and just had emergency brain surgery! She is still in very critical condition.
Please pray for Lucy!🙏🏻
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300,000 churches in the US
100,000 children waiting for adoption
The Church = God's answer to fostercare
#EFL2017
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A few years ago I woke up one Monday morning and felt something was wrong.
I didn’t immediately know what it was.
I wondered if I was depressed. Burned out. Or maybe I lost my sense of calling.
I couldn’t figure it out so I decided to take some time to pray and get counsel.
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Tim Keller and David Powlison’s Pastor’s Self-Evaluation Questionnaire is an excellent resource for pastors and ministry leaders.
Their evaluation is divided into two major sections:
1. Personal holiness
2. Pastoral skills
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Eugene Peterson’s son said he only had one sermon -
God loves you
He’s on your side
He’s coming after you
He’s relentless.
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My wife just finished
@Tish_H_Warren
’s Prayer in the Night and is lamenting it is over. She needs another book similar. She fears this book was so good nothing else will come close :) Any suggestions?
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A good liturgy is a gift to God's people and profoundly transformative. Here's a sample:
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This is a very thoughtful and helpful response to Dr. John MacArthurs recent comments on mental health by a Psychiatrist who attends
@chbcdc
(via
@ElizaJaneHuie
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Counseling that is truly Biblical takes into account both body and soul. Taking your meds may be the most spiritual thing you do today!
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Going on a sabbatical? Here are a few book recommendations to stir your heart for Christ:
Gentle & Lowly - Dane Ortlund
The Bruised Reed - Richard Sibbes
Lessons from the Upper Room - Sinclair Ferguson
What books would you add?
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"There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us.” - Richard Sibbes
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This news hits hard. No other pastor has had as much influence on my understanding of the gospel, the heart, and counseling as Keller.
Health Update: Today, Dad is being discharged from the hospital to receive hospice care at home. Over the past few days, he has asked us to pray with him often. He expressed many times through prayer his desire to go home to be with Jesus. His family is very sad because we... 1/3
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@JesseTinsley
My wife had that happen as she was just falling asleep. Person tried to make it to the bathroom but stopped mid-aisle and puked all over the two aisle seat people in front of them including my wife. It was awful! The one time I was thankful for a middle seat!
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This is good pastoral care
"A wounded spirit may be the result of diseases which seriously shake the nervous system. Let us be very tender with brethren and sisters who get into that condition."
--Charles Spurgeon, who had chronic depression
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I had the opportunity to teach through Genesis 3 again this past weekend. I was freshly reminded of God’s incredible mercy towards sinners. In his “kindness He leads us to repentance.” We see that so clearly in how he cared for Adam & Eve in their shame and fear.
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"Churches should be the most honest place in town, not the happiest place in town."
- Walter Brueggemann
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I hear from at least a pastor a week that inquires about counseling or sabbatical coaching because they have started having panic attacks for the first time in their life.
Pastoring has always been hard but these last few years have brought unique challenges.
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Be a reservoir, not a canal.
Can’t get this quote by Bernard of Clairvaux out of my mind 👇🏻
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There is a place for public theologians (speaking the gospel to the public, blogging, YouTubing, etc) but the greater need is for pastoral theologians (preaching, personally caring for the people in the local church, visitation, counseling, etc).
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Grateful for Chris raising awareness and speaking up for children on university campuses across North America. Here’s a snapshot of the confusion and disorder in our society
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This is a helpful articulation of a biblical counseling approach to mental illness and psychiatric diagnosis by Ed Welch
@ccef
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Ed Welch and Sam Williams on the historical weakness of Biblical counseling in knowing people deeply
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I’m curious, how many pastors and ministry leaders who have been serving for 10+ years have never taken a sabbatical? Would love to hear why and what would help you get one?
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If you found help in
@DaneOrtlund
's 'Gentle and Lowly,' I invite you to read
@DanCruver
’s book, 'Loved Indeed.' While Dane highlights Christ's heart, Dan’s explores the Father's heart amidst our doubts. Together, they offer a full picture of divine reassurance.
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Just dropped our son off for Marine Corp boot camp! So proud!
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Updated this graphic for my workshop on the importance of confession and repentance
#biblecn
@ABCounselors
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“I shall look at the world through tears. Perhaps I shall see things that dry-eyed I could not see.”
- Nicholas Wolterstorff
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"Most of Scripture speaks to us; the Psalms speak for us."
- Athanasius
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If you are suffering, depressed, and see only darkness today - you are not alone. Remember:
- Jacob’s limp
- Joseph’s tears
- Job’s agonies
- David’s Psalms
- Elijah’s desire to die
- Hannah’s weeping
- Jeremiah’s lamentations
- Paul’s thorn
- Jesus in Gethsemane
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One of my all time favorite quotes by Spurgeon. Great encouragement for the new year -
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This is significant! I pray that we will see the end to the madness of gender ideology sooner than later. Too many young people are being harmed to stand by quietly.
The American College of Pediatricians just put out a 🔥🔥🔥 statement calling out all the major medical associations by name for pushing the gender transition craze on kids.
They ask for these groups to "IMMEDIATELY stop the promotion of social affirmation, puberty blockers,
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Something that I try to remember when I go into a counseling session is this:
Jesus is present and actively involved in this moment. I don’t bring Jesus into this moment, He is already there. I am joining Him.
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Much of counseling is helping people slow down enough to catch up wth themselves and God
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5. Give them an annual marriage enrichment stipend to cover a trip away with their spouse.
6. Pay for continuing education, conferences, etc
7. Ensure they have a healthy book budget and ministry meal budget.
8. Pray for them and their family regularly.
9. Thank them often.
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Here is a simple exercise to check your heart and reconnect with Christ. Take a moment to ask these 6 questions:
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"Christian maturity is not a matter of doing more for God; it is God doing more in and through us." - Eugene Peterson
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I pastored in a gospel-centered church that unashamedly preached about the beauty of the biblical sexual ethic and still 80% of the young adults that regularly attended were taken back when they found out that pre-marital sex was not God’s design! This is not surprising.
GOP Rep. Nancy Mace tells audience she declined sex this morning to show up at a prayer breakfast:
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It is wild to me that encouraging churches to consider offering sabbaticals as a benefit for their pastors endurance would be controversial!
It is wild to me the Sabbatical expectations that have become common among evangelicals.
Can you imagine the welder in your church going to his foreman & saying, "Been five years, can I have a 90 day paid sabbatical?"
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A significant aspect of good counseling is simply providing space for people to voice their suffering
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“Emotional health and spiritual maturity are inseparable. It is impossible to be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature.” - Pete Scazzero
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Just landed in Portland, OR for my wife’s surgery tommorrow. Thank you to everyone who is praying!
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If we want to be biblically faithful in caring for others we need to see the whole person.
Biology
Psychology
Sociol
Spiritual
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The Adoption Tax Credit was designed to help provide families for every waiting child.
Top # = children waiting
Bottom # = churches
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The mockery, perversion, and sexualization of the Last Supper is one evil. Another is the inclusion of a minor.
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What a church says on its website says a lot about Jesus and Christianity. It is interesting how many focus on what we do or who we are vs. what Jesus does. Here are a few churches I really appreciate:
1. Grace Bible Church, Cambridge, ON
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“Stop shouldering the burden of outcomes.” - Dallas Willard
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The doctrine of the imputation of the active obedience of Christ has been one of the most hope-giving, life-transforming, mission-motivating doctrines of the faith. I cherish my Saviors death and life for me.
This past Sunday night, I addressed the resurgence in the Reformed and Reformed-adjacent world of the doctrine of the “imputation of the active obedience of Christ,” and the aggressive push some are making to have the embrace of this doctrine serve as a supposed litmus test of
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10. Recognize the incredible complexity of their job. It is the hardest job in the world - dealing with spiritual and physical realities, intense suffering, and all the messiness of sin - representing Christ in our world.
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What does it mean to be “filled with the Holy Spirit”? Paul gives us a helpful description in Ephesians👇🏻
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I find that there are a number of people who seek out biblical counseling or therapy that just need a really good friend who can help them:
1. Reflect on your life
2. Recognize God’s grace
3. Practice abiding in Christ
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I am a proud RTS Alum and grateful for the women that I got to learn alongside during my time in seminary.
A bunch of happy, well-fed (thanks
@LoganFarms_MS
!) new students at the
@RTSJackson
orientation lunch.
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Update for all who have been praying for my wife. The surgery went really well and she is doing great! The surgery was just over 4hrs. The doctor said it was the longest surgery of this kind he has done and he’s done a lot! I am so grateful for your love.
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Do you want a simple practice to better understand yourself and deepen your relationship with God?
Here are 3 daily questions you can ask and journal:
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If you want to listen effectively, learn these 3 skills:
1. Ask open-ended questions.
2. Ask followup questions.
3. Be slow to speak.
That simple.
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A subtle and dangerous lie that pervades the church in the midst of suffering is that it can be alleviated by “more faith" and Scripture.
Jesus had perfect faith yet was a “man of sorrows” and experienced unimaginable suffering.
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I highly recommend
@malcolmguite
’s exellent book ‘Waiting on the Word: A poem a day for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany’
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The Heidelberg Catechism is the biblical counselors catechism:
Q. What is your only comfort in life and in death?
A. That I am not my own, but belong— body and soul, in life and in death to my faithful Savior, Jesus Christ.
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For churches with pastoral residencies and training programs *please* consider including a track on self-care and pastoral care.
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Dropped my son back off at Pendleton for his infantry training. Grateful we had him home for a few weeks! So proud of him!
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This approach by Adams is abhorant. I can’t believe they would allow to remain in print. As someone who identifies as a biblical counselor I want to make this clearly known.
This is the founder of Nouthetic counseling, now renamed ACBC. Jay Adam's work and books are still used and still the framework for the underpinnings of the movement.
When the foundation is rotten, much of the fruit will be too.
Particularly relevant given the TGC article...
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