by Bob | May 5, 2026 | Biblical Counseling
Meet Patrick Porras: Guest Blogger Today is the first of several blog posts from attendees and presenters at the 2026 Association of Biblical Counselors’ Call to Counsel annual conference. Patrick Porras is our guest blogger. Here’s his bio: Patrick Porras: I am an...
by Bob | Apr 23, 2026 | Trauma
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...
by Bob | Apr 20, 2026 | Biblical Counseling
Letting Go Recently I read an excellent post by my friend, Eliza Jane Huie. Eliza introduced her thoughts with these words: “I have learned so much from biblical counseling. It is a meaningful and integral part of my practice. However, I found that we can sometimes...
by Bob | Apr 14, 2026 | Clinically-Informed Biblical Counseling
Déjà vu All Over Again Dale Johnson and ACBC are unrelenting. In podcast after podcast, Dale and his guests declare that clinically-informed biblical counseling (CIBC) is not true biblical counseling. Each time they follow a familiar pattern: ACBC, Dale, and their...
by Bob | Apr 10, 2026 | Biblical Counseling
Twitter/X On X/Twitter, a biblical counselor suggested that weaknesses and errors in the biblical counseling movement cannot be isolated simply to the “movement.” Instead, he argued, We can trace errors in counseling back to the local church and the pulpit: biblical...
