by Bob | Mar 7, 2026 | Biblical Counseling, Biblical Counseling Coalition
A Word from Bob I had the humbling honor of being the founding Executive Director of the Biblical Counseling Coalition (BCC). Planning for the BCC began in 2009. I served as the BCC Executive Director from 2010-2017. Here’s a very brief history of those early days...
by Bob | Feb 3, 2026 | Biblical Counseling
“Then Job answered and said: ‘I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all’” (Job 16:1-2). Mark #1: Miserable Counselor/Comforters Are Defensive and Aggressive What happens when a suffering counselee pushes back on counseling that confuses lament...
by Bob | Jan 30, 2026 | Biblical Counseling, Soul Care
A Sabbatical from the BCW: Biblical Counseling Wars About a month ago, I began a sabbatical from engaging in the public debates between biblical counselors. I explained why here: I’m Taking a “Sabbatical” from the Biblical Counseling “Wars.” 5 Reasons for an...
by Bob | Jan 22, 2026 | Biblical Counseling
Use Your Imagination In the spirit of positive, iron-sharpening-iron interactions in the biblical counseling world, which of the following 90-minute interactive biblical counseling discussions (not debates) would you most like to hear? Imagine that you could listen...
by Bob | Jan 5, 2026 | Biblical Counseling, Conflict Resolution
A Brief History Lesson If you’ve read my blog over the past eighteen months, then you know that the modern biblical counseling world has been at war. Sadly, warfare between biblical counselors and Christian integrative counselors is nothing new, nor is it new to...
by Bob | Jan 1, 2026 | Biblical Counseling, Clinically-Informed Biblical Counseling
A Word from Bob You’re reading a guest post by Jason Kovacs. Jason is responding to an article by Greg Gifford in a recent edition of ACBC’s Journal of Biblical Soul Care. You can read Greg’s article here: “I’m a Biblically-Informed Psychologist”: Is...
