20 Posts: A Cornucopia of Blogging

“Cornucopia”? 

Cornucopia is from the Latin combining two words which means “a horn filled with plenty.” It has come to mean “an abundant, overflowing supply; a variety of resources.”

What’s Been My “Cornucopia” Focus the Past Month? 

I was honored this morning when I saw that Tim Challies had linked to one of my recent posts in Tim’s A La Carte Daily.

That got me thinking,

With our move from Washington to Florida, what’s been my blogging focus in the past month?

The answer surprised myself! I’ve had a cornucopia of posts.

Posts Interacting with Heath Lambert

In the past few weeks, I’ve crafted five blog posts related to discussions within the biblical counseling community:

1. 3 Biblical Principles to Apply in Response to Heath Lambert’s Confrontation
2. Priests, Zombies, and Prophets, Oh My!: Engaging Publicly with Heath Lambert’s Public Writings
3. Heath, Jay, and Donn…And Mischaracterizing Fellow Biblical Counselors
4. Engaging Publicly with Heath Lambert’s Public Writings: Part 2: Hearing Heath
5. Is Bob to the “Left” of Dale and Heath in the Modern BC Movement? “No.”

These posts have been my attempts to respectfully and reasonably engage with Heath Lambert’s first post in his series of posts about what Heath sees as compromise from within the modern biblical counseling movement.

Priests in the Garden, Zombies in the Wilderness, and Prophets on the Wall: The Current State of the Contemporary Biblical Counseling Movement

But There’s More! On Other Topics 

Don’t you love those commercials where they try to sell you a “On TV-Only Product”? They always say something like, “But there’s more! Order now and you’ll receive two Kitchen Bread Slicers plus this free handy…!”

Likewise, even while moving across country from Seattle to Port Charlotte, Florida, in the past month, I’ve done a lot more writing than just about Heath’s posts.

These “intramural” discussions about Heath’s posts are a small part of my focus and energies. In addition to providing pro bono (free) biblical counseling to pastors, missionaries, educators, and other biblical counselors, I continue writing on many other topics.

Here’s a collation. Or, in TV lingo,

“Visit RPM Ministries now and you’ll receive posts not on one topic, but on many topics—all free!”

A Cornucopia of Blogging

• Posts on a Theology of Biblical Counseling

1. 3 Dozen Quotes on a Theology of Biblical Counseling
2. 10 Major Bible Doctrines Applied to Biblical Counseling
3. A Thread on 6 Biblical Counseling Convictions
4. More Than Just Willpower (Theological Anthropology for Biblical Counseling)

• Posts on Biblical Counseling and Research

1. Biblical Counseling and the Co-Belligerent Use of Research
2. 10 Biblical Concerns About “Bad Therapy”
3. “Cherry-Picking” David Powlison on Secular Psychology and Biblical Counseling

• Posts Biblical Counseling and Mental Illness

1. A Dozen Reflections on Mental Illness, the Church, and Biblical Counseling

• Posts About God’s Affectionate Sovereignty in Our Cross-Country Move

1. A Shirley and Bob Update: “Goodbye Auburn, Washington”
2. Moving Sale Rocking Horse Blessing

• Posts on Interacting with Fellow Biblical Counselors

1. David Powlison on Zealous Polemicists (Tim Challies linked to this post in A La Carte Daily.)
2. Don’t Call Yourself a Biblical Counselor If…
3. 6 Free Resources for Biblically Engaging with Fellow Biblical Counselors

• Posts About My New Booklet

1. Applying Two Richly Practical Biblical Counseling Words: Parakaleo and Noutheteo

• Posts About David Powlison

1. Why We’ll Likely Never See Another David Powlison

A Cornucopia of Topics! 

If my math is right, that’s 20 posts in the past 31 days, on over half-a-dozen topics. Not bad while moving across country!