Truth & Love Blog
If Heman Saw a Comforting Counselor
Imagine with me if Heman in Psalm 88 were to share his soul with a biblical soul physician, with a compassionate soul care giver.
A Highly Recommended Journal of Biblical Counseling Article on Common Grace, Deep Breathing, and Biblical Counseling
Counseling ministry should not operate as a super-spiritual, hyper-cognitive way of meeting with and helping strugglers.
Psalm 88: “The Dark Night of the Soul.” If Heman Saw a Miserable Counselor…
Imagine with me if Heman in Psalm 88 were to share his soul with a soulless counselor…
16 Self-Assessment Questions to Ask Ourselves As We Evaluate Other Counseling Models
Before we assess other models of counseling, let’s first assess ourselves regarding other counselors, Scriptures, and counselees.
3 Nouthetic Cautions About Nouthetic Critiques of Others: From John Bettler
In our desire to biblically assess counseling models, have we been unfair to the views of others, inaccurate with the text of Scripture, and insensitive to the pain of our counselees?
95 Martin Luther Quotes of Note: Reformation Week 2023
To help us to apply the gospel to our daily life and to our personal ministry, I collated 95 Martin Luther quotes of note.
Experiencing Peace While Enduring Chronic Suffering
We face our suffering face-to-face with our Suffering Savior.
Meet the Man Who Influenced the Early Nouthetic Counseling Movement: O. Hobart Mowrer
A Biblical Evaluation of O. Hobart Mowrer’s Model of Moral Behavioral Psychology and Its Relationship to the Modern Nouthetic Counseling Movement.
Kellemen Family Update: Lord Willing, in 2024, We Hope to Move to Florida
If the Lord wills, we plan to move from our home in Auburn, Washington to our new home in Port Charlotte, Florida in July 2024.
60 Christian Books on the Body and Soul (Embodied-Soul): “Theological Anthropology”—A Biblical View of Humanity
This post is for those of you who have an interest in an in-depth, robust biblical understanding of how God designed us as embodied-souls.