by Bob | Feb 5, 2021 | Black Church History, Black History Month
Can You Name Any African American Church Founding Fathers? In American culture, we tend to learn a lot about the white founding fathers of our government. However, we tend to learn much less (or nothing) about the founding fathers of the Black Church. Today we learn...
by Bob | Feb 3, 2021 | Black Church History, Black History Month
A Word from Bob: You’re reading Part 2, in a blog mini-series on Black Church History. You can read Part 1 here: My History with Black History Month. I’ve developed this series from my book, Beyond the Suffering: Embracing the Legacy of African American Soul Care....
by Bob | Feb 2, 2021 | Black Church History, Black History Month
A Word from Bob: You’re reading Part 1, in a several-part blog mini-series on Black Church History. I’ve developed this series from my book, Beyond the Suffering: Embracing the Legacy of African American Soul Care. I’ve also based this blog series on a presentation I...
by Bob | Jan 31, 2021 | Suffering
A Word from Bob You’re reading Part 2 of a two-part blog mini-series. You can read Part 1 here: A Tale of Two Passages. In Part 1, we focused on 2 Corinthians 1:8-9a. Notice that I say “9a.” We purposefully dropped off the conversation before the second half of the...
by Bob | Jan 29, 2021 | Biblical Counseling
As biblical counselors, we always want to connect the most relevant biblical passage to our unique counselee’s specific life situation. However, “pet passages” can exert such influence on us that we unhelpfully force them onto people in a one-size-fits-all manner. A...
