Truth & Love Blog
What Does It Mean to “Speak the Truth in Love” (Ephesians 4:15)?
If my speaking/embodying Christ’s truth fails to evidence Christ’s grace-love, then I am a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
Scripture Is the Catalyst for Biblical Counselors Studying Science and Neuroscience
The Scripture’s teaching on embodied-souls should motivate biblical counselors to engage with neuroscience research.
Jay Adams on Embodied-Souls, Trauma, Neuroscience, Sanctification, and Physical Interventions
AJay Adams on avoiding Gnostic thinking, the body’s habituated response to trauma, being neuroscience-informed, and physical interventions for sanctification.
10 Biblical Trauma Principles for Biblical Counseling: We Experience, Remember, and Respond to Traumatic Suffering as Embodied-Souls
Traumatic suffering can have both an immediate and a lingering impact on our body and soul—on our embodied-soul.
12 Catalytic Trauma Questions for Biblical Counselors
Current thinking on trauma could be a catalyst for biblical counselors to examine biblically what it means to be soul physicians of embodied-souls for those who have experience traumatic-suffering.
A Biblical Counseling Evaluation of ACBC’s “A Biblical View of Trauma, Part 2”
4 areas of biblical counseling iIron-sharpening-iron feedback about traumatic suffering and being soul physicians of embodied-souls.
Is It Biblical for Biblical Counselors to Disagree Publicly?: A History Lesson
What can we learn from the 50-year history of intense public disagreements between nouthetic biblical counselors?
Trauma, the Body, and Extra-Biblical Resources
The ACBC has begun a series of podcasts on trauma and the body. In this post, I interact about their first podcast.
Are Trauma Responses Sinful?
Trying to use our walk with God to keep traumatic experiences from having an impact physically or mentally is a form of theistic humanism.
Fearing Fear or Seeing Fear as My Friend: Understanding God’s Design for Fear
God does not call us to fear the emotion of fear. He does not call us to eradicate fear. God designed fear as our “danger detector” and our “refuge reminder.”