Increasingly in counseling, I find myself saying some form of this question… “What do you think of all of that…?” Let me explain… The Personal Ministry of the Word If you’ve read anything I’ve ever written on biblical counseling, then you know I often...
This summer I turn 62. How can that be? It seems like just last summer I was an eight-year-old kid playing outside in Ranburn Woods in Gary, Indiana with Billy, Johnny, Paul, and Mark. Where have the years gone? Moving Toward “Semi-Retiring” I mention this as a basis...
A Word from Bob: As the Founding Executive Director of the Biblical Counseling Coalition (BCC), I had the privilege of serving, along with my lifelong friend, Pastor Steve Viars, as the General Editors of Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling (CCBC). First released in...
To honor the theme of today’s post—slowing down—I’m going to write a brief blog. In our driven, Western Christian world, we often don’t know how to slow down. We fail to rest. More than that, when we do slow down, guilt (false guilt) often overcomes us, shaming us for...
Two sets of questions are vital in our Christian lives. Question One: Who is God? What is our image of God? Or, as A. W. Tozer famously said, “What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.” Question Two: Who are we in Christ?...
