by Bob | Mar 18, 2024 | Anxiety, Fear
An Often Asked Question It’s an often discussed question in the Evangelical Christian world in general, and specifically in the modern biblical counseling world. Are anxiety and fear sin? Here are links to 12 resources that ask and answer that question biblically. A...
by Bob | Mar 17, 2024 | St. Patrick
The following prayer by St. Patrick has been variously titled Morning Prayer, The Breastplate, or The Lorica. Some question whether St. Patrick actually wrote it, or whether someone else penned it years later and it was ascribed to St. Patrick. However, for centuries...
by Bob | Mar 14, 2024 | Biblical Counseling
Heath Lambert and the Southern Baptist Convention Pastor Heath Lambert is in the midst of a series of blog posts about the sexual abuse crisis in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). Today, he released Part 2. While I am not a Southern Baptist, I am a biblical...
by Bob | Mar 10, 2024 | Biblical Counseling
I’m Pondering… These are some initial ponderings—thinking out loud, if you will. Musing. So…ponder with me… You may recall David Powlison’s classic article from 1996, How Do You Help a “Psychologized Counselee”? In his editorial, Powlison discussed biblical...
by Bob | Feb 20, 2024 | Elihu
What to Make of Elihu’s Counsel to Job I’ve spent the past several months reading the Bible cover-to-cover seeking to discern the Bible’s teaching on traumatic-suffering and embodied-souls. So far I’ve studied Genesis 1 to Psalms 150. I have over 400 pages of...