by Bob | Aug 6, 2025 | Trauma
A Catalyst… X (formerly Twitter) is a catalyst. It challenges me to think deeply about the complex relationship between traumatic suffering and our embodied-souls. For my recent research on this, see: 161 Free Resources for Counseling the Whole Person: Soul Physicians...
by Bob | Aug 5, 2025 | Trauma
A Word from Bob: Guest Post by Joe Leavell Today’s blog is a guest post from my friend and fellow biblical counselor, Joe Leavell. For the original post, see the Biblical Counseling of Arizona post here: Are Trauma Responses Sinful? Joe is the Director of Biblical...
by Bob | Jul 28, 2025 | Anxiety, Fear
The Big Idea God does not call us to fear the emotion of fear. He does not call us to eradicate fear. God designed fear as our “danger detector” and our “refuge reminder.” God created us with the capacity to fear in order to prompt us to take refuge in Him. “When I...
by Bob | Jul 27, 2025 | Anxiety, Fear
The Big Idea Some Christians have always sought to minimize and spiritualize Jesus’s emotions. However, the Bible testifies to the intensity of Jesus’s full range of human emotions. Here are 11 emotional life principles drawn from Jesus’s emotional life. Jesus’s...
by Bob | Jul 25, 2025 | Emotions, Fear
Iron-Sharpening-Iron Conversations Among Biblical Counselors Recently, I posted a blog on Genesis 15:1 entitled, “Fear Not.” My post focused on an exegetical development and counseling application of God’s response in Genesis 15:1 to Abram’s fears in Genesis 14. In...
