Truth & Love Blog
The Emotional Life of Jesus: Let’s Be Good Bereans Out There!
We need to think biblically and theologically about emotions.
5 Biblical Portraits of Biblical Counselors, Part 2
The Bible simply never pits truth against love. The Bible never lays them out on a gradation or ranking. The Bible presents equal couplets: truth/love, Scripture/soul, Bible/relationship, truth/grace, holiness/love.
5 Biblical Portraits of the Biblical Counselor
According to Paul in 1 Thessalonians 2, God calls us to share His Word with the love of a brother (1:4; 2:1-2, 9), a mother (2:7-8), a father (2:10-12), a child (2:17-18), and a mentor (2:19-20).
Truth and Love: Sharing Scripture and Soul
Does the Bible teach that in biblical counseling relationships are tertiary?
A SWOT Analysis or a SWORD Heart Exam?: Free Resource
You can download a free, seven-page PDF resource that presents a sample SWORD Heart Exam.
My Author Interview with P&R Publishing
Learn what’s my favorite animal, my favorite sports team, and even some serious stuff about me and my writings.
Suffering and God’s Affectionate Sovereignty
“The greatest good suffering can do for me is to increase my capacity for God.”—Joni Eareckson Tada
Should Counselors Talk about Themselves?
A biblical model of counseling would suggest an intense level of soul-to-soul connection, including incarnational ministry, personal vulnerability, and careful, wise, purposeful “counselor self-disclosure.”
How to Empathize with Your Friends
You will be empathetic with others to the degree that you are facing your struggles face-to-face with God.
Developing the Biblical Counseling Skill of Empathy
Sometimes we think that because the world uses a word like “empathy,” therefore, we can’t use that word in biblical counseling. However, many biblical passages urge rich soul empathizing.
