by Bob | Apr 28, 2024 | Nouthetic, Parakaletic Counseling
My Latest Book Is “Hot Off the Presses”! My latest book is now available via the Association of Biblical Counselors. Parakaleo and Noutheteo: Understanding and Applying Two Richly Practical Biblical Counseling Words. Counsel the Word This is the first book/booklet...
by Bob | Apr 24, 2024 | Common Grace, David Powlison
“Cherry-Picking” Powlison Recent writings in the modern biblical counseling movement have been using David Powlison’s teachings in a “gate-keeping” way. “David Powlison taught _____; so anyone who sways from _____ is not really a true biblical counselor.” These...
by Bob | Apr 20, 2024 | Family
The rocking horse pictured in the featured image has been in Shirley’s family for almost 70 years! Shirley enjoyed it as a child. Our children enjoyed it. Our granddaughters enjoyed it. We really didn’t want to sell it, but we added it to the moving sale items. It did...
by Bob | Apr 16, 2024 | Uncategorized
Pondering… I’m pondering a fresh perspective on segments of the modern biblical counseling movement’s worldview. I’m wondering if a common biblical counseling understanding of people (their “theological anthropology”) may, perhaps, be “a bit off the mark.” What Do...
by Bob | Apr 6, 2024 | Research
As biblical counselors, we have something of a checkered history with research. For more about what I mean by that, you can read my blog post Biblical Counseling and Scientific Research. As biblical counselors, we will sometimes say, “I quote from research. Here’s an...
