Truth & Love Blog
The Gospel for Real Life
When intense struggles and besetting sins intrude upon your life, what difference does the gospel make?
5 to Live By: The Top 5 Christian Blog Posts of the Week
Linking you to the top 5 Christian blog posts of the week including “Shame Interrupted” and “Atheists Need Your Help.”
Raucous Joy!
Is your Christian life, is my Christian life, a model of raucous joy? Is the way Christians live life and talk about life a portrait of celebration and joy?
4 Principles for Equipping God’s People for One-Another Ministry
“The fact that these two chapters are included in the book testifies to Bob’s highly organized and comprehensive equipping approach that comes with many years of experience in doing this kind of thing.”
5 Biblical Counseling Sustaining Skills: GRACE, Part 10
Of the five biblical counseling GRACE skills of sustaining, which ones do you most want to develop further? Why? How?
A Prayer for Sunday Worship: Ephesians 3:14-21
And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ
5 Biblical Counseling Sustaining Skills: GRACE, Part 9
Notice the ultimate purpose of all soul care—helping your spiritual friends to display God’s glory by trusting in His goodness in the midst of life’s badness.
5 Biblical Counseling Sustaining Skills: GRACE, Part 8
Our quest is to help our friends find God in the midst of their suffering.
5 Biblical Counseling Sustaining Skills: GRACE, Part 7
People in pain need whispers, not shouts. Don’t holler curses; whisper grace.
5 Biblical Counseling Sustaining Skills: GRACE, Part 6
LISTEN: Relationally competent spiritual friends hear their friend’s story before they tell God’s story to their friend.