by Bob | Oct 13, 2023 | Jay Adams, Nouthetic Counseling, O. Hobart Mowrer
Who Is O. Hobart Mowrer and Why Does He Matter to Biblical Counselors? Greg Gifford is Chair of Biblical Studies and Assistant Professor of Biblical Counseling at The Master’s University. In a post at the Biblical Counseling Coalition (Jay Adams’ Heritage: How Jay...
by Bob | Oct 10, 2023 | Florida, Shirley
If the Lord Wills In James 4:13-15, we read: 13 Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” 14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a...
by Bob | Oct 2, 2023 | Body, Embodied-Souls, Theological Anthropology
What’s My Focus? Here’s my focus: This post focuses on Christian books on the topic of the body and soul—the embodied-soul: the complex interconnection of our body/soul, brain/mind, physical/spiritual nature. The technical term for the topic of this post is...
by Bob | Sep 30, 2023 | Embodied-Souls, Neuroscience
A Word from Bob For a longer version of this post, see: 10 Questions About Biblical Counseling and the Body: Becoming Soul Physicians of Embodied-Souls. For an academic text on a creation, fall, redemption, consummation understanding of human nature in its four-fold...
by Bob | Sep 22, 2023 | Body, Embodied-Souls
My Recent Readings and Reflections I’ve been doing a lot of reading lately about the Bible’s teaching on the body. Our biblical understanding of the body has great significance for how biblical counselors minister to people holistically. As I’ve said recently, God...
