Truth & Love Blog
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.”
The Emotional Life of Christ and Our Emotions
Some Christians have always sought to minimize and spiritualize Jesus’s emotions. However, the Bible testifies to the intensity of Jesus’s full range of human emotions.
The Danger of Pathologizing Normal, Human, God-Given, God-Designed Emotions
There is a danger of adding iniquity to injury when we tell emotionally hurting people to repent of their normal human emotions.
Biblical Counseling Conversations for Fear
Over two dozen spiritual conversations on fear for saints who face suffering and who battle against sin on their sanctification journey.
The Beauty of Our Emotions: Biblical Counseling for Fear
It seems that emotions are a very emotional topic in our biblical counseling world! We need a biblical theology of the beauty of emotions.
