by Bob | Nov 13, 2023 | Miserable Comforters, Psalm 88
A Word from Bob Today’s post is “how not to counsel.” If you want to see the opposite, take a look at: If Heman Saw a Comforting Counselor. Also, you can download a free twenty-four page PDF of both posts, here: Biblical Counseling and the Dark Night of the Soul: If...
by Bob | Nov 5, 2023 | Nouthetic Counseling, Self-Assessment
A Word From Bob Today’s post is a shortened version of 3 Nouthetic Cautions About Nouthetic Critiques of Others: From John Bettler. In that longer post, John Bettler asked, In our desire to biblically assess counseling models, have we been unfair to the views of...
by Bob | Nov 4, 2023 | John Bettler, Nouthetic Counseling
John Bettler Responds to Jay Adams It’s 1987. Almost twenty years have passed since Jay Adams launched the modern nouthetic counseling movement. John Bettler, a good friend of Jay Adams, is “the second ranking leader” in the nouthetic counseling world after Adams....
by Bob | Oct 29, 2023 | Martin Luther, Reformation
95 Theses, 95 Quotes In 1519, Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the church door in Wittenberg, launching the Protestant Reformation. In 2019, for the 500th Anniversary of that world-changing event, I collated 95 Martin Luther quotes from my book...
by Bob | Oct 27, 2023 | Chronic Suffering
In times of stress and distress, I often reflect on God’s promise in Isaiah 26:3. “You will keep them in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because they trust in You.” Here’s how I translate the original Hebrew of this verse: “You will keep them in peace,...
