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Josh Squires

Josh Squires serves as pastor of counseling and congregational care at First Presbyterian Church in Columbia, South Carolina. He and his wife have five children.

How Might Jesus Do Counseling? Four Roads into the Human Heart

How Might Jesus Do Counseling?

Four Roads into the Human Heart

How might we grow in wisely counseling friends, family, and others? View the counseling task through the lens of commendation, comfort, conviction, and challenge.

The Hardest Season of All: How to Fight for Joy in Winter

The Hardest Season of All

How to Fight for Joy in Winter

The first weeks after the holidays can leave many feeling exhausted, hopeless, dark, lonely, and disappointed. How might we rest our souls and bodies, restore our hope, and bring our downcast hearts to God?

Waiting to Be Led: Four Steps for Discouraged Wives

Waiting to Be Led

Four Steps for Discouraged Wives

Some women are eager to be led by a husband who doesn’t seem eager to lead. What can a wife do to encourage her husband to act like the head of their home?

Sister, Friend, or Threat? How Men and Women Relate in the Church

Sister, Friend, or Threat?

How Men and Women Relate in the Church

In male-female relationships in the church, how can we treat one another with familial warmth without swinging open wide the door to temptation?

When Your Best Isn’t Good Enough: Making Sense of Ministry Failure

When Your Best Isn’t Good Enough

Making Sense of Ministry Failure

When a ministry ends in bitter disappointment, we need not lower our heads in shame. Rather, lift them to see the reason for ministry: Christ.

The Help That Hurts: Three Lies That Add to Suffering

The Help That Hurts

Three Lies That Add to Suffering

If Christ is with you, no suffering before you is hopeless, your help is not in vain, and you know you cannot help anyone alone.

Lord, Help Me Endure One More Day

Lord, Help Me Endure One More Day

Satan uses suffering to get us alone, focused on self, and forgetful of our God. God uses suffering to produce character, endurance, and hope.

Nine Words for Every Marriage

Nine Words for Every Marriage

A healthy marriage does not depend on the absence of conflict, but on the ability to genuinely ask for forgiveness, and genuinely grant it.

Four Steps to Rebuild Trust

Four Steps to Rebuild Trust

Trust is essential for any healthy relationship. But trust is also tricky, especially in the wake of betrayal. How can we work to recover lost trust?

How (Other) People Change: Walking with Loved Ones Through Five Stages

How (Other) People Change

Walking with Loved Ones Through Five Stages

“Am I helping or enabling?” These five stages of change will help you love wandering loved ones well.

Where to Bring Your Broken Heart

Where to Bring Your Broken Heart

Satan will use your grief to isolate you from God, but God means to draw you even closer through your pain.

Two Blind Guides: Conforming Our Mind and Heart to God’s

Two Blind Guides

Conforming Our Mind and Heart to God’s

Freedom is not doing what you feel or following your own way — it’s being led by the truth of God’s word.

Are Your Relational Problems Inherited?

Are Your Relational Problems Inherited?

Three Common Family-of-Origin Issues

The flaws in your family’s past never outweigh the grace God can give you going forward.

Die to Yourself Without Losing Yourself

Die to Yourself Without Losing Yourself

God gives us grounds for real boundaries in our relationships. Be ready to sacrifice, but also be ready to say, “No.”

Jesus Will Lead You Through the Valley: Loving a Spouse Through Depression

Jesus Will Lead You Through the Valley

How to Love a Depressed Wife

Living with a depressed wife can drain your hope, but you can take heart because Jesus walks with you.

Are Christians Too Intentional in Dating?

Are Christians Too Intentional in Dating?

Counsel for New Relationships

How should Christians begin a new relationship? One counselor shares two common problems he sees in the early days of dating.

Men, Intimacy Begins with Good Listening

Men, Intimacy Begins with Good Listening

How is emotional intimacy sustained and kindled? Good communication. More importantly, good listening, and good listening takes hard work.

Happily Ever After

Happily Ever After

Finding Grace in the Messes of Marriage

These short devotionals by John Piper, Francis Chan, and others are designed to shape, challenge, and inspire your own vision of marriage and God.

Perfect Peace for Imperfect Parents

Perfect Peace for Imperfect Parents

Failure in parenting isn’t an option. It’s an inevitability. To parent well, we need to know the peace that God provides in our imperfections.

Prone to Wander

Prone to Wander

Three Ways the Heart Clouds the Conscience

Our consciences grow dull because our sinful hearts love ease, pleasure, and comfort more than the hard-won joy of obedience.

Is God the Center of Your Marriage?

Is God the Center of Your Marriage?

The fellowship of the Spirit, the sovereignty of the Father, and the service of the Son make marriage securely God-centered.

Parenting in the Age of Binge-Watching

Parenting in the Age of Binge-Watching

Parents, entertainment is not merely a danger to be avoided. It is an opportunity to discipline your child’s heart.

The Perfect Spouse Will Not Complete You

The Perfect Spouse Will Not Complete You

How do we as Christians evaluate our desire for a good spouse? And when it comes to a plan for evaluating relationships, how do we know if we’re in a healthy one?

How to Help the Suicidal

How to Help the Suicidal

Fewer topics provoke more fear and trembling than suicide. But we cannot let our fear and sadness over a dark and difficult issue keep us from moving toward someone in need.

How to Evangelize Professing Believers

How to Evangelize Professing Believers

Six Steps

How can we share the true gospel with those who claim to be for Christ and yet have lives that plainly don’t bear the fruit?

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