"Our joy is in serving people to become more effective with life and thus bring glory to God."
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Dr. Alan Pickering Founder of Ultimate Life Now & Lead Counselor
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If you are interested in counseling, please contact Dr. Alan Pickering on his cell phone at 817.807.6869 or email via [email protected].
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Books by Dr. F. Alan Pickering
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Chasing Wisdom, Stumbling Over Foolishness
We tend to traffic in either a lot of wisdom and some foolishness or a lot of foolishness and some wisdom. It’s a mixed bag for most. The wisdom-foolish dichotomy is ever before us.
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Assert Yourself! Be Firm! Stand Up for Yourself!
We tend to default to being passive (passive compliant, passive aggressive, passive resistant, or passive indifferent) or to being aggressive – neither of these is effective. Your effectiveness as a disciple of Jesus comes in being assertive.