by Bob | Jul 22, 2026 | Embodied-Souls, Physiological Interventions
Serious Issues The title of today’s article has been a “hot-button” issue ever since Jay Adams launched the modern nouthetic biblical counseling movement. Here’s expanded wording of our title: Should biblical counselors provide physiological interventions for...
by Bob | Aug 21, 2025 | Embodied-Souls, Jay Adams
Adams on the Embodied-Soul In February, 1992, Jay Adams gave a lecture on The Biblical Perspective on the Mind-Body Problem. That lecture was later published in a two-part series by The Journal of Biblical Ethics in Medicine. You can read Part One here. You can read...
by Bob | Aug 19, 2025 | Embodied-Souls, Trauma
Contrasting Views on Trauma and the Body A biblical counselor on X recently wrote, “Your response to trauma reveals what has been stored in your heart, not your body.” That sentence offers a concise summary of a significant amount of thinking coming from some...
by Bob | Jun 15, 2025 | Embodied-Souls
My Question to Grok3 I asked Grok3 (AI) on X (Twitter): “Compare and contrast the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors’ teaching on embodied-souls with Bob Kellemen’s teaching on embodied-souls.” More Similar Than You Might Have Assumed… I thought the...
by Bob | Jun 13, 2025 | Embodied-Souls
“Self. Listen.” Martin Lloyd-Jones’s classic book, Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures, began as a series of sermons on Psalm 42. As a pastor, professor, and physician, Dr. Jones writes as a soul physician of embodied-souls. One of Jones’s most well-known...
by Bob | Jun 9, 2025 | Embodied-Souls
Current Discussions Recently, some biblical counselors have been claiming that biblical counselors should not include physiological interventions in their biblical counseling. I’ve collated several examples. Today, I will share two. Greg Gifford, in his just released...
