Life That Works
Grace Link International (AKA Grace Fellowship Ministries) has been offering the Grace Life training and personal discipleship counseling in North Alabama since 1991. Our director, Blake Rymer, has over 30 years of counseling and teaching experience. The Grace Life training embodies the truths that liberated and empowered Blake and his wife, Sandra, to spend their lives sharing the truth of God's love and grace internationally.
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In a speech presented at the 1995 Moody Founders Week Celebration, Dr. Larry Crabb, noted Christian psychologist and author, made the following points:
The issues which professional counseling addresses - guilt, anger, self- hatred, hopelessness, the unwillingness to love - are issues which the Bible addresses and which God has designed the local church to handle.
The problems which people in our culture typically take to professional counselors and therapists are really expressions of a troubled soul, not symptoms of an underlying psychological disorder, except when they have an organic basis. They are spiritual problems. Therefore: (1) The only trustworthy source of understanding the soul is the Bible. Therefore, biblical wisdom becomes the foundation, the framework and the substance of all our helping efforts. (2) The community of God’s people - the local church - is the proper setting for the problems of the soul to be addressed. The local church is more vital to the work of healing and helping than the counseling center. (3) The people most powerful in influencing lives, no matter how troubled they may be, are those who have suffered and struggled well.
GRACE-LINK INTERNATIONAL STATEMENT OF FAITH
We believe that God’s Word teaches:
1. Verbal inspiration of the Bible.
We believe the Holy Scriptures, both the Old and New Testaments, to be verbally inspired of God in the original manuscripts: infallible, inerrant and God-breathed, a perfect rule of faith and practice.
2. The Trinity
We believe in one God, eternally existing in three Persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
3. The Lord Jesus Christ
We believe that God, the Son, who had always existed, became a man (without diminishing his deity) by virgin birth through Mary. He lived a sinless life as an infinite God-Man took upon Himself the sins of all men, died in their place and satisfied God concerning their sins.
We further believe in the literal, physical resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. He was then ascended and exalted to the right hand of God as the Great High Priest of all believers.
Grace Cove Retreat is a ministry environment where groups of married couples are lead through a one week “marriage restoration” experience. The setting is a retreat center, resort or hotel in an interesting location where couples can enjoy a week long getaway from the distractions of the day-to-day grind. During this week couples are taken through the basics of the grace life, shown its application to marriage, learn and practice powerful communication skills, receive instruction in and rehearse intimacy enhancing behaviors, and carry out marriage-team building exercises.
For many parents, child discipline is the most difficult aspect of parenting. Sandra and I discovered Dr. John Rosemond when many of our parenting challenges were nearly over. Nevertheless, as parents we found Dr. Rosemond’s books and his approach to rearing children to be the most sane and reasonable we had encountered. As a counselor and minister who deals with frustrated parents we always suggest that John’s books and approach be adopted for the benefit of the parents and the children.