Truth & Love Blog
ABC 2026: What I Learned About Current Issues in the Biblical Counseling World
While I was at ABC’s Called to Counsel Conference, I was pondering the current controversies in the biblical counseling world. Here’s what I learned.
When the Whole Person Keeps the Score
Biblical Language About the Body and Suffering In a recent post, Matthew Statler seeks to present “biblical language about the body and suffering.” That is an excellent goal. It is a goal I’ve pursued for more than forty years—every since I wrote my Th.M. thesis on...
10 Unhelpful Biblical Counseling Practices to Let Go Of…
Here are 10 unhelpful biblical counseling practices that our movement would be wise to let go of…
Undocumented Claims: Documenting ACBC’s Approach to CIBC
Dale, ACBC, and their Truth in Love podcast guests fail to provide documented quotes from CIBC leaders to substantiate their claims against CIBC.
6 Ways a Church’s Biblical Theology Shapes Its Biblical Counseling
The pulpit ministry of the Word shapes the personal ministry of the Word. A church’s biblical theology shapes its biblical shepherding.
Using Ernie Baker’s 7 “S” Words to Assess Whether CIBC Is Truly BC
Using Ernie Baker’s 7-part assessment model, can Clinically-Informed Biblical Counselors legitimately claim to be part of the modern biblical counseling family?
3 Images of Embodied-Soul Care
It is sinful and cruel to provide counselor care for the soul, but then ignore the bodily needs of that hurting person.
Is Relief-Oriented Care and Counseling for the Body Sub-Biblical?
Do not shrink historical pastoral embodied-soul care down to a secular, modernistic, psychotherapy, professionalized model of office-based talk therapy.
70 Resources on Common Grace, Biblical Counseling, and Reformed Theology
What can we learn from Reformed theology about common grace and how biblical counselors may engage with extra-biblical information?
The Biblical Problem with the Biblical Counseling Wars: Matthew 7:3-5
Biblical counselors should apply Matthew 7:3-5 by addressing the log in our own eye, only then will we see clearly to address the speck in the eye of other counselors.
