Truth & Love Blog
6 False Steps in a Straw-Man Argument
With permission of biblical counselor Joseph Leavell, I am re-posting Joe’s Twitter/X thread on straw-man arguments.
Do Biblical Counselors Focus on the Soul, or on the Body, or on the Embodied-Soul?
What should garner the majority of a biblical counselor’s attention? The body? The soul? Or the embodied-soul?
Unity of Body and Soul: Embodied-Souls in Herman Bavinck
“In Scripture, body and soul are always most intimately related, influencing one another and working together” (Herman Bavinck).
When We Minimize Common Grace, We Minimize God’s Sovereignty and Goodness
Believing in common grace is not believing in the goodness of humanity; it is believing in the goodness of God.
What Makes Biblical Counseling Truly Biblical? Part 4: The Bible’s Grand Narrative
To view the Bible accurately and use the Bible competently we must understand the Bible’s story the way God tells it—as a gospel victory narrative.
“#Sufficientist”?
Biblical definitions allow us to have wise, intelligent, gracious, bridge-building, iron-sharpening-iron conversations.
“ChatGPT: What Is Bob Kellemen’s View of the Embodied-Soul?”
I asked ChatGPT: What Is Bob Kellemen’s view of the embodied-soul?” Here’s their answer. What do you think?
560 Biblical Passages on Embodied-Souls
560 biblical passages about embodied-souls to develop a biblical theology of biblical counselors as soul physicians of embodied-souls.
Discussing and Applying Nate Brooks’s Identifying Heart Transformation
Nate Brooks’s book, Identifying Heart Change, addresses the question: How do biblical principles of heart change impact our biblical counseling?
“No One Came to My Support” (Paul, 2 Timothy 4:16)
What should we do when biblical counselors publicly mischaracterize other biblical counselors?
