Truth & Love Blog

Beware of Relational Heresy While Addressing Perceived Doctrinal Heresy
The Bible consistently addresses how we treat one another while we address doctrinal disagreements.

God’s Parental Prime Directive
To become a more powerful parent, we must become a more godly person: a person dedicated to dependence upon God.

How Do We Counsel Someone with a Distorted Image of the Concept of “Father”?
How do we minister the Father’s love to a person whose earthly father portrayed a distorted image of the word “father”?

10 Top Biblical Counseling Books of 2024
Here are the top 10 biblical counseling books of 2024: about biblical counseling, about Christian living, or important to biblical counselors.

100 Free Resources for Counseling the Whole Person: Soul Physicians of Embodied-Souls
What does the Bible teach about biblical counseling, the body, the embodied-soul, traumatic-suffering, research, science, and neuroscience?

Powlison on Biblical Counseling and Secular Psychotherapy
What did David Powlison teach and practice concerning how biblical counselors view and use secular psychology?



Zealous Polemicists: Powlison’s Counsel on Communicating Constructively Concerning Counseling Conflicts
Powlison models how to speak the truth in love in the pursuit of peace, rather than exacerbating quarrels and perpetuating caricatures.


A Proposal: A Biblical Counseling Conciliation Summit
I suggest a gathering of biblical counseling leaders for a moderated face-to-face meeting to discuss current concerns and conflicts in the biblical counseling movement.


Free Resource: Common Grace and Biblical Counseling: Wisdom from Reformed Theologians
How have Reformed theologians applied the doctrine of common grace in relationship to the use of extra-biblical resources from non-Christians?


Every Square Inch of Human Existence: Kuyper on God’s All-Encompassing Common Grace
Denying the all-encompassing nature of common grace in the life of the unbeliever is saying that God has handed the non-Christian world over to Satan.