Truth & Love Blog
Healing for the Holidays: 2023
Loss is always hard, and at the holidays it can seem overwhelming. Jesus gives you permission to grieve, and He gives you His promise of hope.
6 Lessons from a Depressed Puritan Pastor
What can we learn from a depressed Puritan pastor about counseling those struggling with depression?
I’m Never More Christ-Dependent Than When I’m Doing Deep Breathing Exercises
When I engage in deep breathing exercises, I am consciously acknowledging to myself and to my God that I am a jar of clay.
Biblical Counseling and the Dark Night of the Soul (Psalm 88)
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If Heman Saw a Comforting Counselor
Imagine with me if Heman in Psalm 88 were to share his soul with a biblical soul physician, with a compassionate soul care giver.
Deep Breathing and Biblical Counseling
Counseling ministry should not operate as a super-spiritual, hyper-cognitive way of meeting with and helping strugglers.
Psalm 88: “The Dark Night of the Soul.” If Heman Saw a Miserable Counselor…
Imagine with me if Heman in Psalm 88 were to share his soul with a soulless counselor…
16 Self-Assessment Questions to Ask Ourselves As We Evaluate Other Counseling Models
Before we assess other models of counseling, let’s first assess ourselves regarding other counselors, Scriptures, and counselees.
3 Nouthetic Cautions About Nouthetic Critiques of Others: From John Bettler
In our desire to biblically assess counseling models, have we been unfair to the views of others, inaccurate with the text of Scripture, and insensitive to the pain of our counselees?
95 Martin Luther Quotes of Note: Reformation Week 2023
To help us to apply the gospel to our daily life and to our personal ministry, I collated 95 Martin Luther quotes of note.
