by Bob | Jun 6, 2011 | 4E Ministry Training Strategy, Equipping Counselors for Your Church, Kevin DeYoung, Pastoral Ministry
Christ’s Calling to the Church Pastor Kevin DeYoung blogged yesterday on The Most Urgent Need in the Church. In his post, DeYoung quoted twice from Martyn Lloyd-Jones’ book Preaching and Preachers. Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981) and DeYoung Lloyd-Jones’ first quote...
by Bob | Jun 4, 2011 | 4E Ministry Training Strategy, Biblical Counseling, Discipleship, Equipping Counselors for Your Church
“These Are Your Grandbabies!” Enjoy the last three paragraphs in the Introduction to my upcoming book (September 2001) Equipping Counselors for Your Church: The 4E Ministry Training Strategy. Sister Ellen Barney is the First Lady (Sr. Pastor’s wife) of a large,...
by Bob | Jun 3, 2011 | 5 to Live By, James MacDonald
Five to Live By Linking you to the top 5 Christian blog posts of the week—posts that provide robust, rich, and relevant insights for living. Through the Rain and Through the Storm Pastor James MacDonald at Vertical Church shares about responding to life When It...
by Bob | Jun 2, 2011 | God's Healing for Life's Losses, Grief, GriefShare, Salvation
Suicide, Salvation, and Eternal Security Ever since the publication of my book God’s Healing for Life’s Losses: How to Find Hope When You’re Hurting, I receive many emails, phone calls, and questions about grief. One of the most difficult questions I hear is from...
by Bob | Jun 1, 2011 | Biblical Counseling, Comfort, Nouthetic
False Comfort Anyone who follows my ministry knows that I deplore one-dimensional biblical counseling. Frank Lake said it so well over a generation ago. “Pastoral care is defective unless it can deal thoroughly both with the evils we have suffered and with the sins...
