Truth & Love Blog
Biblically, How Does Nouthetic Counseling Compare to Parakaletic Counseling?
How does the Bible compare the significance of parakaleo and noutheteo for developing a model of biblical counseling?
12 Reasons Parakaleo Provides a Comprehensive Summary of Biblical Counseling
Given the priority of parakaleo in the Bible, if we chose one biblical word for counseling, parakaletic would be a comprehensive name for biblical counseling.
36 Resources on Christianity, Mental Health, and Mental Illness
What is a Christian way of thinking about mental health and mental illness? Here are three dozen resources addressing this question from a variety of perspectives.
Ten Commitments of Redemptive Counselors / Clinically-Informed Biblical Counselors
Here’s a “condensed” version of the SEBTS BC faculty’s document: Ten Commitments of Redemptive Counselors / Clinically-Informed Biblical Counselors.
INC: Informed Nouthetic Counseling
Historically, the modern nouthetic biblical counseling movement has been informed by behaviorism, neuroscience, psychology, common grace, and co-belligerent research.
Non-Clinically-Informed Biblical Counseling: 2 Reflections and 4 Recommendations
How should non-clinically-informed biblical counselors relate to clinically-informed biblical counselors?
Clinically-Informed Biblical Counseling: 3 Reflections and 2 Recommendations
Does our theologically-saturated biblical counseling transform information we glean from extra-biblical sources? Or, does the world’s information transform our counseling so it becomes conformed to the world?
Common Grace and Biblical Counseling: Wisdom from Reformed Theologians
How have Reformed theologians applied the doctrine of common grace in relationship to the use of extra-biblical resources from non-Christians?
Biblical Counseling with Non-Christians
Should we do biblical counseling with non-Christians, or, should we only do evangelism with non-Christians? If we do counsel non-Christians, should we counsel non-Christians differently than Christians? If so, why? How?
The Progressive Sanctification of the Modern Biblical Counseling Movement
Biblical counselors are well known for emphasizing progressive sanctification. We can be equally well-known for progressively growing together as biblical counselors: the progressive sanctification of the biblical counseling movement.
