Truth & Love Blog
What Do You Call Your Counseling?
What do your call your counseling ministry? Why?
Let’s Be Watchful Out There: About Relational Heresy
It’s instructive that the Bible not only alerts us to watch out for doctrinal heresy, but also for relational heresy—divisive, biting, devouring, overbearing, quarrelsome, and contentious people.
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.”
