Truth & Love Blog
“Only Counsel the Person in the Room” Does Not Mean “Only Focus on Their Sin”
If all we have is nouthetic confrontation of sin, then every counselee looks like a sinner to be confronted. Biblical counseling is much more comprehensive.
A Biblical Counselor’s Self-Assessment Tool
Evaluate your biblical counseling competency with this 40-question self-assessment tool from “Consider Your Counsel.”
Speaking the Truth WITHOUT Love Is Relational Heresy
What does God’s Word—our ultimate authoritative source of Truth—say about our heart attitude and relational demeaner when we speak the truth?
God’s Word Offers a Treasury of Financial Wisdom, Guest Post by Jim Newheiser
In today’s guest post, Dr. Jim Newheiser shares 5 reaons we need a new book on money, debt, and finances.
Bringing Focus to Your Marriage Counseling
Troubled couples can find it difficult to identify the most pressing issues in their marriage. The Marriage Counseling Goals and Focus Form helps couples and counselors collaboratively develop Christ-centered goals.
Why Address Mistakes in Our Biblical Counseling?
What patterns, themes, and threads of blind spots do I detect in rookie and veteran biblical counselors—myself included—from which we could learn and grow?
The Relationship Between Scriptural Sufficiency and Counselor Competency, Part 2
While Scripture is sufficient to provide wisdom for every soul issue, does that mean that every biblical counselor is always competent to address every soul issue
The Relationship Between Scriptural Sufficiency and Counselor Competency, Part 1
While Scripture is sufficient to provide wisdom for every soul issue, does that mean that every biblical counselor is competent to address every soul issue?
Are Nouthetic Counselors Open to Nouthetic Confrontation of the Modern Nouthetic Counseling Movement?
As biblical counselors, we share loving challenges with our counselees; are we as open to receiving loving challenge about our counseling?
Finding Hope for Our Hurts from African American Spirituals: Black Church History
We learn from the African American spirituals how heaven invades earth as God’s eternal hope impacts us during our earthly hurts.
