Truth & Love Blog

Nature Yourself Calm: Consider Creation and the Creator’s Caring Control
What prescription does our Soul Physician write for our anxieties and cares? “Consider creation and the Creator.”

How Do We Deal with Grief and Loss?
What is the Bible’s approach to helping people who are struggling with grief and loss?

Is It Biblical for a Biblical Counselor to Recommend Breathing Exercises?
Engage with over a dozen prompting discussion questions (PDQs) for a healthy public conversation about biblical counseling and common grace.

50 Years of Publicly Encouraging the Biblical Counseling Movement to Speak the Truth in Love
Here’s why I seek to publicly speak the truth in love about speaking the truth in love.

A Trilogy on Common Grace, the Sufficiency of Scripture, and Biblical Counseling
How can we engage in gracious, humble, respectful, mutual, iron-sharpening-iron conversations about the sufficiency of Scripture, common grace, and biblical counseling?

The Dangers of Integrating Secular Western Dualism into Biblical Counseling
The Bible calls biblical counselors to be soul physicians of embodied-souls who deal compassionately and comprehensively with the whole person.

Who or What Sets the Boundary Lines for Biblical Counseling?
How do we determine what makes biblical counseling truly biblical? How do we decide who is truly a biblical counselor?

Biblical Counseling Conversations and the Kobayashi Maru Scenario
Biblical counselor Joseph Leavell illustrates the circular reasoning being used in many of the recent biblical counseling “conversations.”

Abraham Kuyper: “Proto-Integrationist”?
Kuyper systematically built his worldview on Divine Revelation—from the book of nature, from the book of conscience, and, supremely, from the book of Scripture.

Common Grace and God’s Glory: Kuyper on Amazing Common Grace
Common grace doesn’t glorify the unregenerate person, just like saving grace does not glorify the regenerate person. Common grace glorifies God!