by Bob | Dec 15, 2024 | Relational Heresy
Orthodoxy and Orthopraxy We talk a lot about doctrinal heresy—and it is a vital issues that we must address. Orthodoxy—right belief—is essential. We seem to talk less about relational heresy. Orthopraxy—right relationships, right living—is equally essential. We talk...
by Bob | Dec 14, 2024 | Family Counseling, Parenting
2 Very Different Ways to Think About Parenting I’ve developed today’s post from my book, Gospel-Centered Family Counseling: An Equipping Guide for Pastors and Counselors. While the book provides practical biblical wisdom for parenting and for marriage counseling, I...
by Bob | Dec 11, 2024 | Abuse, Fathers
Introduction: Recent Biblical Counseling Discussions Recently, the biblical counseling world has been discussing some vitally important questions. How do we counsel a person whose earthly father portrayed a distorted image of the concept of ‘father’? What biblical...
by Bob | Dec 9, 2024 | Biblical Counseling, Biblical Counseling Books, Suffering
The Thirteenth Annual Edition If you’re a counselor, pastor, student, educator, one-another minister, small group leader, soul care giver, spiritual friend, spouse, or parent, you want to know the most helpful books about biblical counseling. We all want trusted...
by Bob | Dec 6, 2024 | Common Grace, Embodied-Souls, Trauma
What Does the Bible Teach About the Body, the Embodied-Soul, Traumatic Suffering, Common Grace, Science, Neuroscience, and Research? In 2022, I started collating a list of resources I had produced on Counseling the Whole Person. It started with 15 resources. In 2023,...