by Bob | Jul 6, 2011 | Association of Biblical Counselors, Biblical Counseling, Biblical Counseling Coalition, CCEF, Paul Tripp
Sixteen Biblical Counseling Blogs You Should Bookmark Several people have asked me recently, “What biblical counseling blogs do you read?” Answering that question, especially publicly, feels somewhat like people must feel when giving an acceptance speech. They want to...
by Bob | Jun 25, 2011 | Biblical Counseling, Christian Living, Gospel Imperatives, Gospel Indicatives, Salvation, Sanctification
Applying Our Complete Salvation Note: This is part four in a mini-series on the relationship between our salvation and our daily growth in Christ (sanctification). Read part one How We Grow in Grace, part two How to Disagree in an Agreeable Way, and part three How...
by Bob | Jun 23, 2011 | Biblical Counseling, Christian Living, Gospel Imperatives, Gospel Indicatives, Sanctification
How People Change How would you answer the following questions? • How do we grow in grace? • How do we become more like Christ? • How do we overcome sin? • How do we deal with suffering? • How do people change? These are each vital questions about Christian living. To...
by Bob | Jun 4, 2011 | 4E Ministry Training Strategy, Biblical Counseling, Discipleship, Equipping Counselors for Your Church
“These Are Your Grandbabies!” Enjoy the last three paragraphs in the Introduction to my upcoming book (September 2001) Equipping Counselors for Your Church: The 4E Ministry Training Strategy. Sister Ellen Barney is the First Lady (Sr. Pastor’s wife) of a large,...
by Bob | Jun 1, 2011 | Biblical Counseling, Comfort, Nouthetic
False Comfort Anyone who follows my ministry knows that I deplore one-dimensional biblical counseling. Frank Lake said it so well over a generation ago. “Pastoral care is defective unless it can deal thoroughly both with the evils we have suffered and with the sins...
by Bob | May 24, 2011 | Biblical Counseling
Back to the Future: At 21 and at 51 Yesterday in one of my presentations at the Moody Bible Institute Pastors’ Conference, I discussed how I responded to a significant life event when I was 21. That was three decades ago. Yes, I’m 51 now. So I started thinking, “What...
