by Bob | Feb 23, 2011 | Biblical Counseling, Book Review, Steve Viars
My Foreword to Steve Viars’ Putting Your Past in Its Place Pastor Steve Viars has devoted his life and ministry to helping others to change—biblically. You hold in your hands the result of his lifelong ministry—Pastor Viars’ Opus. It’s an opus well worth reading...
by Bob | Feb 22, 2011 | Biblical Counseling, Marriage Counseling, Parenting
How to Learn to Love…All Over Again I’ve had scores of responses to yesterday’s post, Learning to Love…All Over Again. Some asked, “So how do we learn to love all over again?” Anyone who knows me, knows that I don’t believe in “five easy steps,” or “seven secrets to…”...
by Bob | Feb 18, 2011 | Biblical Counseling, Pastoral Ministry, Soul Physicians, Trinity
Modeling Our Ministry After the Trinity Before God created, what was He doing? “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God” (John 1:1). Before God created; He related. In the Greek, the little preposition with signifies “before, in the presence of,...
by Bob | Feb 17, 2011 | Biblical Counseling, John Stott, Soul Physicians
Knowing God: The Holy Love of God “What comes to our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us” (A. W. Tozer). A vision of God’s holy love delivers us from caricatures of him, as John Stott reminds us. “We must picture him neither as an...
by Bob | Feb 13, 2011 | Al Mohler, Biblical Counseling, Biblical Counseling Coalition, Ed Welch
The Best of the Best Around the Christian Net: This Week’s Top 5 Linking you to the top 5 Christian blog posts of the week—posts that provide robust, rich, and relevant insights for living. Do We Need Another Biblical Counseling Organization? The Biblical Counseling...
by Bob | Feb 12, 2011 | Biblical Counseling, Biblical Counseling Coalition, David Powlison
Why a New Coalition of Biblical Counselors Is Needed The newly launched Biblical Counseling Coalition asked their Board of Directors and Council Board Members why they were excited about the BCC; why the BCC was needed. Their responses capture the heartbeat and...