Truth & Love Blog
Do You Trust Your Bible?
“The sufficiency of Scripture ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”
Change Management, Part 4: Sail On
Change is like a ship that we simultaneously sail and refit.
Change Management, Part 3: Stewarding the Change Process
We should not expect people to change because we said so, but because God says so.
Change Management, Part 2: Christ-Centered Heart Change
Launching a biblical counseling ministry isn’t a task to accomplish. It is a relationship—with God and others—to nourish and enjoy.
Change Management, Part 1: Shepherding the Transformation
The Bible has a theology of change which we can summarize with one word: transformation. Transformation starts with hearts: changed leaders change people who change churches who change communities.
Reflections After 30 Years of Biblical Counseling
If there is one verse that captures the heartbeat of my biblical counseling ministry after three decades it is 1 Thessalonians 2:8. “We loved you so much that we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God but our lives as well, because you had become so dear to us.”
Halloween: Resisting Satan, Part 2
Whenever we mistrust God’s good heart, we always trust our own fallen hearts.
Halloween: Resisting Satan, Part 1
Satan mounts his mutiny through a powerful lie: God is untrustworthy. In subtle and not-so-subtle ways, he places God’s heart on trial whispering, “God is no Rewarder; he’s a Hoarder.” To counteract Satan’s challenge to God’s good heart, we need to expose his seducing strategies.
Reformation Sunday: Katherine von Bora Luther—Living the Truth in Love
The final words of Katherine von Bora Luther. “I will stick to Christ as a burr to a top coat.”
Reformation Sunday: Martin Luther’s Story, Part 4—Clothed by Christ
On the Eve of All Saints Day, I nailed my 95 Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenburg thereby proclaiming that I was prepared to debate anyone, monk, priest, Pope, or Emperor, who dared to proclaim that salvation came by works. Martin Luther
