Truth & Love Blog
Healing Hope for the Holiday Season
Holidays… They’re “supposed” to make us think of words like thankful, merry, and happy. We’re “supposed” to associate holidays with a phrase like “Home for the Holidays!” But… what if a loved one is not coming home this holiday season? What if death, divorce, distance, or family discord causes us to associate the holidays with words and feelings like depression, anxiety, and stress?
Re-Discovering the Father of Compassion: A Review of Gospel-Centered Counseling
Counselors and “average Joe Christians” alike will find much truth here—simply stated and beautifully written—to point their fellow sojourners to the Great Physician. Kellemen quotes Puritans and Reformers; draws spiritual truth from Clint Eastwood films and Smurf cartoons; introduces us to real people, and reminds us—like the Apostle Paul—that we are never alone. Gospel-Centered Counseling is a truly inspiring and helpful book to assist both reader and counselee growing in grace.
14 Top Biblical Counseling Books of 2014
Here, in alphabetical order, are the top 14 books published in 2014 about biblical counseling or important to biblical counselors.
How Christ Changes Lives
I am eager to use Gospel-Centered Counseling in my church’s lay-counseling program, and I believe anyone who is interested in soul care will be returning to this book often.
“Oh, Please, Stop Your Lame Advice!”
Since counseling and discipleship are united by the gospel, Gospel-Centered Counseling is for anyone believer looking for hope rooted in Christ.
Theo-Drama and Gospel-Centered Counseling
Counseling is biblical when the central message, the sweeping redemptive narrative of the Bible, becomes the controlling lens through which we look at life and through which we listen to a person’s life story.
A Conversation with a Deist
What would you have said if you were engaging with Jack—in a conversation with a deist—about God, the Bible, and Christian literature?
Author Interview Q & A for Scripture and Counseling, Part 2
“What roles does psychological theory play in the development of a biblical counseling model?”
Author Interview Q & A for Scripture and Counseling, Part 1
How do we view and use the Bible to help people to grow in grace and to help one another to deal biblically with the profound issues of suffering and sin?
The State of Theology: Theology Is for Life
Far too few people who call themselves “Christian counselors” or “biblical counselors” know how the core doctrines of the faith ought to inform their counseling model and ought to impact their counselees.
