A Marriage Mini-Series You’re reading Part 1 in a several-part blog mini-series on marriage. I’m developing these posts from my book, Gospel-Centered Marriage Counseling: An Equipping Guide for Pastors and Counselors. Where Do You Start? Ephesians 5:21-33 has to be...
I Love to Read Ever since I was able to read, I have loved to read. Whether it was the First-Grade-Readers (“See Spot Run”) or elementary school baseball biographies (“The Say-Hey Kid!”), or science fiction when I was in high school, or theologians in Bible college,...
Some Current Reading Recently, I’ve been focusing on two areas in my reading. In my daily Bible reading, I’ve been meditating on the Gospel narratives of Jesus and the Pharisees. In my extra-biblical reading, I’ve been focused on Christian resources about mental...
The Question What makes biblical counseling truly biblical? We all want our biblical counseling to be…biblical! We often debate whether a given approach is biblical or not. We’re sometimes unclear about our answer to the question. Occasionally, some have sought to...
The Bible on Biblical Counseling In April of 2024, the Association of Biblical Counselors published my latest book: Parakaleo and Noutheteo: Understanding and Applying Two Richly Practical Biblical Counseling Words. As the title and subtitle suggest, both...