by Bob | Jan 19, 2024 | Integration
Buzz Words and Biblical Discernment Recently, I was alerted to a public discussion in a Facebook group associated with nouthetic counseling. The thread began when a pastor shared a genuine concern. “I don’t want to waste time reading or listening to unhelpful...
by Bob | Jan 18, 2024 | Biblical Counseling, Miserable Comforters
An Odd Blog Title for a Counselor! Yes. I’m a counselor writing about the impact of bad counseling. Where is this coming from? It is not coming from my own experience of being counseled. I’ve been blessed in that regard—The Counselor Sees a Counselor. Today’s blog...
by Bob | Jan 14, 2024 | Holy Love
Couplets of God’s Holy Love In a previous post, Knowing God: Our Father of Holy Love, I introduced John Stott’s concept of couplets of God’s holy love. A vision of God’s holy love delivers us from caricatures of him, as John Stott reminds us. “We must picture him...
by Bob | Jan 13, 2024 | Knowing God
A. W. Tozer says it so well. “What comes to our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.” Behold God And who is our God? How does God describe God in His Word? He is our God of Holy-Love. A vision of God’s holy love delivers us from...
by Bob | Jan 7, 2024 | Equipping Biblical Counselors
Equipping God’s People to Speak the Truth in Love Paul tells us in Ephesians 4:11-16 that God’s calling for church leaders is to equip God’s people to speak the truth in love so we all mature in Christ. Doing the work of the ministry is wonderful. Equipping others...
