Truth & Love Blog
Are We Reasonable or Unreasonable in Our Interactions in the Biblical Counseling Movement?
In our biblical counseling interactions with one another, do we practice what we counsel?
Counseling the “Biblicized” Counselee
The biblicized counselee is a person who has mistaken ideas about what the Bible actually teaches about Christian living, Christlikeness, and the process of change.
3 Major Biblical Problems with Elihu’s Counseling of Job
Elihu was wrong about God, wrong about Job, and wrong to focus exclusively on confronting Job without ever comforting Job.
Neurodiversity and Our Embodied-Souls: Ministry Insights and Applications
If we do any Christian ministry, then we would be wise to familiarize ourselves with current thinking on neurodiversity.
On Presidents’ Day: Elizabeth Keckley—Spiritual Friend to the President’s Wife
On Presidents’ Day, learn the true story of the African American woman, Elizabeth Keckley, who was the spiritual friend of Mary Todd Lincoln and President Lincoln.
Spurgeon’s Depression…And His Body/Brain/Embodied-Soul
Spurgeon did not believe that his many bouts of depression were simply spiritual problems. He saw his depression as an embodied-soul matter.
How Do You View God in Your Suffering?
In your suffering, do you see God as your Father who sympathetically laments with you?
2 (Very Different) Reviews of Heath Lambert’s Book, Biblical Counseling and Common Grace
Two very different reviews of Lambert’s Biblical Counseling and Common Grace teach us a lot about this important topic, and about diverse perspectives in the modern biblical counseling movement.
Biblical Counseling and Common Grace: A Review by Nate Brooks
What is the relationship between common grace, the noetic effect of sin, scientific research, secular psychology, and the sufficiency of Scripture?
“Buzz Words” (“Holistic,” ‘Clinically-Informed”) and Humble, Gracious Discernment in Biblical Counseling
Let’s give fellow biblical counselors a gracious benefit of the doubt by reading what they actually say, without assuming that their use of a “buzz word” means they are engaged in “integration.”
