Truth & Love Blog
Are Greg Gifford and ACBC Really the Sufficient Standard for Who Is a Biblical Counselor?
Did you know that Bob Kellemen “is an outsider to biblical counseling”? Did you know that CIBCers are not truly biblical counselors?
An Inconsistent Mindset in Our Modern Biblical Counseling World: Anti-Trauma Research
The same biblical counselors who condemn CIBC/TIBC leaders for assessing trauma research, frequently cite anti-trauma researchers.
What Does the Bible Teach About Unwitnessed Sexual Assault/Sexual Abuse?
The claim that “you can never believe an accusation of sexual abuse without two witnesses” is biblically false, legally incoherent, morally dangerous, logically absurde, and explicitly contradicts God’s Law.
10 Top Biblical Counseling Books of 2025
Here are the top 10 books published in 2025 about biblical counseling, about Christian living written by a biblical counselor, or important to biblical counselors.
Can You Be a Christian If You Are Not an ACBC-Approved Biblical Counselor?
Identifying differences among biblical counselors is fine. Questioning the salvation of fellow biblical counselors is wrong.
ADHD, OCD, the Bible, and Biblical Counseling
Are issues like ADHD and OCD only spiritual/soul issues, and are they only to be addressed by talking to a biblical counselor?
A Crisis in the Biblical Counseling World?
Sean Perron posits a crisis in the biblical counseling world. Bob Kellemen interacts with Sean’s opinions, point-by-point, including asking 18 interactive questions.
Should Biblical Counselors Ever Refer a Counselee to a Psychiatrist?
How do we interpret and apply the Scriptures to the issue of whether it is legitimate for a biblical counselor to refer a counselee to a psychiatrist?
More Biblical Than Just, “Suffer Well”
“Suffer well” is an extra-biblical term used at times in un-biblical ways that shame people for normal, God-given emotions, and that guilts people into staying in ungodly situations.
3 Contemporary Approaches to Biblical Counseling
If you had just four letters for an acronym (like CHBC, CIBC, or CNBC), how would you label your approach to biblical counseling?
