Truth & Love Blog
How to Be a Miserable, Non-Empathetic, “Comforter”: Empathy Is Biblical, Part 3
Learn biblical examples of the sin of non-empathy. Learn God’s view of the sin of non-empathy.
Rich Soul Empathizing: “Climbing in the Casket”: Empathy Is Biblical, Part 2
In biblical empathy, we listen compassionately to another person’s story of suffering and despair and we grieve with them, even to the point of experiencing their pain (2 Corinthians 1:3-9).
Truth Without Empathy Is Sin: Empathy Is Biblical, Part 1
The Bible consistently rebukes truth untethered from loving empathy especially when addressing how leaders minister to God’s flock.
A Critic of Biblical Counseling Reviews a Biblical Counseling Book
What happens when a self-described “critic” of biblical counseling posts an Amazon review of a biblical counseling book?
16 Biblical Counseling Resources on Dealing with Disabilities
When disability impacts your life or the life of someone you love, how are we to respond? Here are 16 biblical counseling resources for dealing with disabilities.
Depression Is a Biblical Concept
In our modern biblical counseling world, some folks have a strong reaction against any concepts that they assume arises from the world or specifically from secular psychology. One example of this is with the concept of “depression.”
The Biblical Counselor Sees a Secular Counselor
Some musings from a biblical counselor about what he experienced and learned when he was counseled by a secular psychologist…
The Counselor Sees a Counselor
My hope in sharing about my receiving counseling is that you would be open to receiving counseling—to be on the receiving end of someone else helping you.
3 Resources for Experiencing God’s Healing Hope: A Trilogy on Grieving with Hope
The Bible’s emphasis on realistic grieving along with resurrection hope is the foundation and motivation for my “trilogy on grief.”
Clinging to Concrete “Life Preservers”
Learn to SEE Jesus so we cling to Him as our only true Life Preserver.