Truth & Love Blog
Spiritual Laser Surgery and “Welcome Home!”
Sermon Manuscript and PowerPoint Presentation from Messages on Hebrews 3:1-14 and Hebrews 10:19-25
Dear David
What do biblical counselors who maximize sanctification, shepherding, Christ, the Gospel, grace, compassion, and comprehensive (whole-person) care believe about mental illness and the church?
Biblical Counseling and Mental Illness: Promoting Compassionate, Comprehensive Care for the Whole Person
What does it look like to care for the whole person compassionately and comprehensively? How could the church do this more effectively? How could biblical counselors do so more effectively?
Counseling Built Entirely Upon Christ’s Gospel of Grace
What would it look like to build an approach to people helping built solely upon Christ’s gospel of grace?
Are Biblical Counselors “Sin Maximizers”?
Should we frame the opposite of mental illness maximizing as sin maximizing or as sanctification maximizing and shepherding maximizing?
Mental Illness and the Church
Mental illness in the church has taken the headlines.
Spiritual Laser Surgery: Fixing Our Focus on Jesus, Part 2
Jesus enters into the experience of our misery; He feels the heartache of our temptation; He has a compassionate heart of fellow feelings with us.
Spiritual Laser Surgery: Fixing Our Focus on Jesus
The Bible teaches that there is one primary reason why our spiritual eyesight gets out of focus—blurred vision about who Christ truly is.
A Prayer for Sunday Worship: Psalm 66
Shout for joy to God, all the earth! Sing the glory of his name; make his praise glorious.
Book Recommendation for the Counselor’s Ministry: Shame Interrupted
Shame Interrupted is not only the book on understanding and addressing shame from a Christian perspective, it is a classic example of how any author can trace a biblical “concept” of a “life issue” and share Christ-centered insights for living.
