Idols of the Heart In our modern nouthetic biblical counseling world, we talk a lot about idols of the heart. We don’t talk enough about the idol of the modern nouthetic biblical counseling movement. We are in danger of demanding that people adhere to the sufficiency...
Scripture exposes signs of toxic “leadership,” often contrasting toxic shepherds with the Good Shepherd. Sign #1: Toxic Lording Over; Toxic Control; Toxic Overpowering Toxic leaders overpower others instead of empowering others. Toxic leaders lord it over others....
Proud Public Condemnation: Hubris In the online Christian world, whether in broader Evangelical circles, or in narrower biblical counseling circles, it seems we often have a typical first response to a Christian who disagrees with our view: proud public condemnation....
Soul Rest Today from Ancient Soul Care Givers God tells us in Jeremiah 6:16 to, “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls.” It’s fascinating that we find rest for our...
Building a Biblical Theology of Biblical Counseling: Wisdom Literature, Traumatic-Suffering, and the Embodied-Soul I’ve been examining the Bible cover-to-cover, Genesis-to-Revelation, studying what God’s sufficient Scriptures say about traumatic-suffering and...
