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,...
by Bob | Dec 5, 2024 | Common Grace, David Powlison
A Word from Bob For a much longer post on Powlison’s views on informed biblical counseling, see, David Powlison on Common Grace, Biblical Counseling, and Secular Psychology. The Bible and Extra-Biblical Sources In 2007, David Powlison wrote one of his most...
by Bob | Dec 4, 2024 | Biblical Counseling, David Powlison, Suffering
Counseling Wars: Counselors Conflicts The modern nouthetic biblical counseling movement has a long history of conflict. This includes conflict with those “outside” the biblical counseling family—with Christian integrative counselors. It also includes inter-family...
