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...
by Bob | May 2, 2011 | Anxiety, Biblical Counseling, Homosexuality, Paul Tripp
Victory Over or Struggling With? Last night I was reading Wesley Hill’s book Washed and Waiting. I was struck by many thoughts, including his quote from Philip Yancey: “Much of what I read on depression, on doubt, on suicide, on suffering, on homosexuality, seems...
by Bob | Apr 29, 2011 | Biblical Counseling
Biblical Counseling and Mature Maleness God designed us as male or female—not only in our body, but also in the core of our soul. All that we do, we do out of a soul that is either male or female. That includes our counseling of others. Thus, we minister to others...
