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Welcome to True North Counseling! We believe that Christ is man's only hope and all counseling is vain unless founded and based on Holy Scripture.

10/26/2026

“For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.” Galatians 5:13

WHAT FREEDOM IS FOR

Paul spends much of Galatians defending the freedom believers have received through Christ. They do not need to earn acceptance with God by perfectly keeping the law. But Paul knows freedom can be misunderstood, so he immediately explains what it is for. We have not been freed so that every desire can have its way. We have been freed to love without trying to prove ourselves.

We often define freedom as the ability to do whatever we want without anyone interfering. The problem is that our desires do not always lead us somewhere good. Comfort can make us selfish. Pride can make us defensive. Appetite can begin making decisions for us. A person can reject every outside restriction and still become controlled by whatever feels most satisfying in the moment.

Paul offers a surprising alternative: “through love serve one another.” Christian freedom does not end with greater independence. It allows us to willingly consider someone else’s needs because we are no longer using every decision to protect our status, comfort, or image. We can serve without keeping score because God’s love is not a payment we receive after doing enough good.

Serving through love does not mean allowing people to manipulate us or refusing healthy boundaries. It means becoming available when love requires something inconvenient. This week, notice the moments when you have the freedom to help but would rather protect your time, attention, or comfort. Grace has already relieved you of the need to earn your place. You are now free to use what you have been given for someone else’s good.

Prayer: God, thank You for the freedom I have received through Christ. Keep me from using that freedom only for my own comfort, and show me where love is inviting me to serve. Help me give without keeping score or seeking recognition. Amen.

10/19/2026

4 Benefits That Come from Your Temperament Weaknesses

I’ve been a Christian for many years. I’ve been around thousands and thousands of believers and I would say most Christians have yet to experience the depth of Christ’s power. Why? Because they haven’t admitted their weaknesses and they haven’t expressed gratitude for them.

I love 2 Corinthians 12:9b in The Living Bible: “I’m glad to be a living demonstration of Christ’s power, instead of showing off my own power and abilities.”

You may not realize it but your weaknesses are actually blessings in disguise.

Here are four ways that’s true:

1. Having weaknesses guarantees God’s help.

When you attempt to face a challenge or solve a problem in your own power, God says, “I’ll step back and watch. Be my guest. Go ahead and do it. If you think you can handle this on your own, great. If you think you can solve that problem at work, if you think you can make that marriage hang together, if you think you can turn that kid around in your own power, be my guest.”

But the moment you come to God and say, “God, I’m weak. I don’t have what it takes for all the pressures that are in my life. God, I need You.” God says, “I knew that. I just wanted you to realize it.” Then he plugs you into his limitless power supply and you experience peace and a deeper understanding of God’s love. You’ll find power you would never have on your own. A power to thrive and not merely survive.

When God is all you have, you turn to him and realize he’s all you needed in the first place.

2. Having weaknesses prevents arrogance.

Second Corinthians 12:7 says, “So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited” (ESV).

A thorn is a limitation I’ve inherited or cannot change, something that causes me pain and limits my ministry. Some thorns are temporary in our lives. Some thorns are removed gradually. Some you have for a lifetime, as with Paul.

What does a thorn do in my life? It’s that persistent problem that causes me pain, gets my attention, keeps me dependent upon God, and humble before him. It acts as a governor on my life. It guides and directs me, and it motivates me.

If God is ever going to use you in a great way, expect a thorn. He will do it to get your attention. It may be physical, relational, emotional, or some other kind of thorn, but it will come because it prevents arrogance and it guarantees God’s help.

3. Having weaknesses causes you to value others.

One of the dangers of strength is that it breeds an independent spirit. God made us to value each other, and our weaknesses keep us from being self-sufficient so that we lean into the support of other people.

You’re pretty weak, and I’m pretty weak, but together we can do things that nobody thought possible. That’s why it’s so vital for you to plug into a local church, get involved, develop relationships, and get in a small group, so that when a crisis hits your life there’s somebody there to support you. And you’re there to help others when they go through crisis.

4. Having weaknesses gives you a ministry.

God puts you on earth not just to live for yourself, but to help other people. Your greatest ministry will flow out of your weaknesses.

The greatest life message, the message that God wants to say to the world through you is going to come out of your deepest hurt. The very thing that causes you the most grief and pain, God can use in your ministry and can use it as a message to other people to encourage them.

The thing you’re most embarrassed about, the thing you’re most ashamed of, the thing you don’t want anybody else to know about, God wants to use to encourage other people. Pain sensitizes us to the hurts of others. If you want to have a Christlike ministry, that means sometimes other people are going to be helped, encouraged, and even healed by the wounds in your life.

God never wastes a hurt. God will use the thing in your life that you are most ashamed of, most embarrassed by, most heartbroken over, to encourage other people if you’ll learn to admit it, see what God wants to do in it, be healed through it, and begin to share it with others.

10/19/2026

The Cost of Doing Everything Alone

“Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil.”

- Ecclesiastes 4:9

Immediately before this verse, Ecclesiastes describes a man who works endlessly but has no one with whom to share what he has built. His eyes are never satisfied, yet he never stops to ask why he is exhausting himself. “Two are better than one” is not merely a pleasant statement about friendship. It is the answer to a life that has become productive, busy, and deeply isolated.

Independence can feel safer than relying on people. If we handle everything ourselves, nobody can disappoint us, misunderstand us, or see where we are struggling. We may even take pride in being the person who never needs help.

But self-reliance has a cost. Eventually, no one knows how much weight we are carrying, where we need encouragement, or when we are close to falling.

The “good reward” described in this verse includes what people can accomplish together, but it goes beyond productivity. Shared work brings perspective, encouragement, and the ability to keep moving when one person’s strength runs low. Trusted people can notice blind spots we cannot see, challenge the stories we have been telling ourselves, and remind us of truth when our own thoughts become unreliable.

Being capable does not mean you were designed to do everything alone. Consider one part of your life that you have kept unnecessarily private. Instead of waiting until you are overwhelmed, tell someone you trust what is actually happening.

Ask for prayer, advice, accountability, or simply their presence. Community begins when we become willing to be known before everything is fixed.

Prayer: God, show me where independence has turned into isolation. Give me the humility to let trustworthy people know me, support me, and speak truth into my life. Help me become that kind of person for others as well. Amen.

10/16/2026

WHEN NOBODY IS WATCHING

There’s something different about doing your best when no one is there to notice.

It’s easy to give a little more when the work is visible. When someone is watching, when there’s recognition attached to it, or when we know the effort could lead somewhere.

But what about the things no one sees?

Colossians 3:23 says: “Whatever work you do, do it with all your heart.”

That verse changes the audience. Suddenly, the ordinary things matter differently.

The work that feels beneath you isn’t beneath God’s attention. The season where you feel overlooked isn’t an excuse to become careless.....and doing something well still has value, even when no one ever tells you that you did.

Sometimes we assume giving it our all means constantly doing more. But maybe it has less to do with how much we accomplish and more to do with Who we believe we’re doing it for.

There will be seasons when the work in front of you doesn’t look anything like the work you hoped God would give you.

Do it well anyway.

Not because every task will feel important, but because God is worthy of your faithfulness wherever He has placed you.

That kind of perspective can make even ordinary work feel sacred.

You may never know what God is developing in you through the things that seem insignificant today.

But He sees how you show up when no one else does.

And perhaps that’s enough reason to give it your all.

Let's bow our hearts..... Lord, help us remember who we are ultimately working for. When our efforts feel unnoticed or the work in front of us feels insignificant, give us faithful hearts. Let the way we show up honor You, even when no one else is watching. Amen.

Carry this reminder with you:

GIVE IT YOUR ALL 🤍

A reminder to show up faithfully and give your best to the work in front of you, even when no one else sees it.

09/22/2026

The bigger my life has become, the more people have set out to wound me.

Anyone who steps out to do something in the world knows this feeling. The higher you climb, the more stones get thrown.

For a long time I let it harden me. I held onto the hurt like a trophy, quietly nursing every grudge, certain I was somehow punishing the people who had wronged me.

The truth was, I was only ever punishing myself.

That is the brutal thing about resentment. The person who wronged you has long moved on. You are the one still carrying it, still letting it burn away at your insides, years after they have forgotten your name.

I have found only one way out of that trap. Forgiveness. Not because those people deserved it, but because I could not carry the poison a single day longer. And it is far easier to let go of someone else's failings when you remember how much you have needed forgiving yourself.

There is nothing weak about forgiveness. It is the strongest, most freeing thing a person can do, and it releases you far more than it ever releases them.

Who are you really punishing by refusing to forgive?

09/21/2026

“Surrender your heart to God, turn to him in prayer, and give up your sins—even those you do in secret. Then you won’t be ashamed; you will be confident and fearless. Your troubles will go away like water beneath a bridge, and your darkest night will be brighter than noon. You will rest safe and secure, filled with hope and emptied of worry.” Job 11:13-18

“Where God’s love is, there is no fear, because God’s perfect love drives out fear.”
1 John 4:18

Fear can meet you early on a Monday morning. It may come through a hard decision waiting for you, a criticism you can’t shake, a family in crisis, a financial concern, or a private burden no one else knows you’re carrying.

How do you learn to live in God’s love so you can live without being ruled by fear?

Every day, you surrender your heart to God.

Before you step into the week’s meetings, messages, conversations, and needs, you can pray, “God, before I carry anything for anyone else today, I surrender my emotions to you. Be Lord over my feelings. Guard my mind. Fill my heart with your love.”

Job 11:13-18 says, “Surrender your heart to God, turn to him in prayer, and give up your sins—even those you do in secret. Then you won’t be ashamed; you will be confident and fearless. Your troubles will go away like water beneath a bridge, and your darkest night will be brighter than noon. You will rest safe and secure, filled with hope and emptied of worry”

There are three commands and eight promises in that passage. First, God gives you the commands: Surrender your heart to him every day. Turn to him in prayer. Give up your sins, including the ones no one in your church can see.

Then notice what God promises: You won’t be ashamed. You’ll be confident. You’ll be fearless. Your troubles will pass like water under a bridge. Your darkest night will become brighter than noon. You’ll rest safe and secure. You’ll be filled with hope. You’ll be emptied of worry.

Who doesn’t need that at the start of a ministry week?

You don’t have to live in fear today. You can surrender your heart to God, turn to him in prayer, and confess what needs to be brought into the light.

Then trust him to do what only he can do: help you “rest safe and secure, filled with hope and emptied of worry.”

08/25/2026

Sometimes God's greatest gift during a trial is not a doorway out..... it's His presence with us while we endure. ✝️

~ Mike Doyle

06/02/2026

Welcome to True North Counseling! We believe that Christ is man's only hope and all counseling is vain unless founded and based on Holy Scripture.

06/02/2026

What God Actually Requires:

“He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?” - Micah 6:8

It is easy to overcomplicate faith. We can turn it into a long list of goals, appearances, routines, opinions, disciplines, and outward markers that make us feel like we are doing the right things. But Micah 6:8 brings us back to something clear and grounding. God is not vague about what matters. He says to do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with Him.

This is not a shallow or simple calling. It reaches into the way we treat people, the way we make decisions, the way we respond when we are wronged, the way we use influence, the way we handle success, and the way we carry ourselves when no one is watching.

To do justice means we do not only care about what benefits us. We care about what is right. We do not excuse dishonesty because it gives us an advantage. We do not ignore people because they are inconvenient. We do not use strength, status, money, or position to serve ourselves at the expense of others. Justice is not only something we talk about when the issue is large or public. It shows up in ordinary decisions. It shows up in honesty, fairness, responsibility, and the willingness to do what is right even when it costs more.

To love kindness means kindness is not treated like a personality trait we use when we feel like it. It becomes something we value, pursue, and practice. It means we do not confuse strength with harshness. We do not confuse truth with cruelty. A person walking with God should become harder to corrupt, but softer in the way they love people. Kindness does not mean weakness. It means our strength is submitted to God, and our words, actions, and attitudes are shaped by mercy instead of pride.

To walk humbly with God means we stop living like we are the center of everything. Humility keeps us teachable. It reminds us that every gift, opportunity, ability, and breath comes from Him. It keeps us from chasing recognition more than obedience. It keeps us from pretending we have everything figured out. Walking humbly means we stay close to God in the ordinary steps of life, not just when we need something from Him. It is daily dependence, daily surrender, and daily alignment with His ways.

This week, do not reduce faith to what people can see. Ask whether your life is becoming more just, more kind, and more humble before God. Not louder. Not more impressive. Not more religious on the outside while unchanged within. The life God calls us to is not complicated, but it is deeply challenging. Do what is right. Love mercy. Walk closely and humbly with Him.

Prayer: Lord, help me live the kind of faith that honors You in ordinary moments. Teach me to do what is right, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with You each day. Keep my heart from pride, selfishness, and empty appearances, and shape my life into one that reflects Your truth, mercy, and character. Amen.

05/21/2026

Strength Under Control:

“Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger.” - James 1:19

Most regretful words do not come from careful thought. They come from reaction. A tense conversation, a defensive moment, a misunderstood comment, a stressful day, and suddenly words come out faster than wisdom. James gives a simple but deeply challenging command: be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger.

This is not about becoming passive or avoiding hard conversations. It is about learning to respond from a place of self-control instead of impulse. There is a kind of strength that does not need to interrupt, overexplain, prove, snap back, or win the moment. It can pause. It can listen. It can weigh words before releasing them. That kind of strength is not natural to pride, but it is formed in a heart submitted to Christ.

Being quick to hear means we are willing to slow down long enough to understand before we assume. It means we do not enter every conversation already building our defense. Being slow to speak means we treat words like they matter, because they do. A sentence can bring peace or pour fuel on a fire. It can clarify or confuse. It can heal or leave damage behind. Being slow to anger means our emotions may be real, but they do not have to be in charge.

This matters in the places where life is most personal: at home, at work, in leadership, in relationships, in conflict, and even in the quiet thoughts we allow to run unchecked. The way we respond under pressure reveals what is leading us. Anyone can react quickly. But a person being shaped by Christ learns to pause, listen, pray, and answer with wisdom.

This week, pay attention to the gap between what you feel and what you say. That space may be small, but it matters. It is often where humility grows, where damage is avoided, and where God teaches us to carry strength with control.

Prayer: Lord, help me be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger. Teach me to pause before reacting, listen before assuming, and speak with wisdom instead of pride. Let my words and responses reflect patience, humility, and strength under Your control. Amen.

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