Truth & Love Blog
God’s Parental Prime Directive
To become a more powerful parent, we must become a more godly person: a person dedicated to dependence upon God.
How Do We Counsel Someone with a Distorted Image of the Concept of “Father”?
How do we minister the Father’s love to a person whose earthly father portrayed a distorted image of the word “father”?
10 Top Biblical Counseling Books of 2024
Here are the top 10 biblical counseling books of 2024: about biblical counseling, about Christian living, or important to biblical counselors.
161 Resources for Counseling the Whole Person: Soul Physicians of Embodied-Souls
What does the Bible teach about biblical counseling, the body, the embodied-soul, trauma, common grace, research, science, and neuroscience?
Powlison on Biblical Counseling and Secular Psychotherapy: Informed Biblical Counseling
What did David Powlison teach and practice concerning how biblical counselors view and use secular psychology?
Zealous Polemicists: Powlison’s Counsel on Communicating Constructively Concerning Counseling Conflicts
Powlison models how to speak the truth in love in the pursuit of peace, rather than exacerbating quarrels and perpetuating caricatures.
A Proposal: A Biblical Counseling Conciliation Summit
I suggest a gathering of biblical counseling leaders for a moderated face-to-face meeting to discuss current concerns and conflicts in the biblical counseling movement.
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?
Every Square Inch of Human Existence: Kuyper on God’s All-Encompassing Common Grace
Denying the all-encompassing nature of common grace in the life of the unbeliever is saying that God has handed the non-Christian world over to Satan.
Healing for the Holidays: 2024
Loss is always hard; at the holidays it can feel overwhelming. Jesus gives you permission to grieve, and He gives you His promise of hope.