Truth & Love Blog
You Know You’re a Pharisee If…
We are blind to our own blindness, even as we accuse others of being spiritually blind.
4 Answers to the Question: “What Makes Biblical Counseling Truly Biblical?”
Read and download four comprehensive answers to the important question: “What makes biblical counseling truly biblical?”
Biblically, How Does Nouthetic Counseling Compare to Parakaletic Counseling?
How does the Bible compare the significance of parakaleo and noutheteo for developing a model of biblical counseling?
12 Reasons Parakaleo Provides a Comprehensive Summary of Biblical Counseling
Given the priority of parakaleo in the Bible, if we chose one biblical word for counseling, parakaletic would be a comprehensive name for biblical counseling.
36 Resources on Christianity, Mental Health, and Mental Illness
What is a Christian way of thinking about mental health and mental illness? Here are three dozen resources addressing this question from a variety of perspectives.
Ten Commitments of Redemptive Counselors / Clinically-Informed Biblical Counselors
Here’s a “condensed” version of the SEBTS BC faculty’s document: Ten Commitments of Redemptive Counselors / Clinically-Informed Biblical Counselors.
INC: Informed Nouthetic Counseling
Historically, the modern nouthetic biblical counseling movement has been informed by behaviorism, neuroscience, psychology, common grace, and co-belligerent research.
Non-Clinically-Informed Biblical Counseling: 2 Reflections and 4 Recommendations
How should non-clinically-informed biblical counselors relate to clinically-informed biblical counselors?
Clinically-Informed Biblical Counseling: 3 Reflections and 2 Recommendations
Does our theologically-saturated biblical counseling transform information we glean from extra-biblical sources? Or, does the world’s information transform our counseling so it becomes conformed to the world?
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?