Truth & Love Blog
2 Very Different Ways of Reading People We Disagree With
When we read someone who differs from us, do we humbly read to learn from them? Or, do we haughtily read to debunk them?
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?