“My Name Is Bob…” In my P&R booklet, Anxiety, crafted over a decade ago, I began with these honest words, “My name is Bob, and I struggle with and against worry, fear, and anxiety.” Eleven years later, in March 2023, I had a “crash.” Anxiety and fear, weakness...
Take a Deep Breath This morning I was just rereading Todd Stryd’s Journal of Biblical Counseling article from 2018: “Take a Deep Breath”— How Counseling Ministry Addresses the Body. It’s behind a paywall, but worth the price. I’ll share some quotes—not too many...
What’s My Focus? Here’s my focus: This post focuses on Christian books on the topic of the body and soul—the embodied-soul: the complex interconnection of our body/soul, brain/mind, physical/spiritual nature. The technical term for the topic of this post is...
A Word from Bob For a longer version of this post, see: 10 Questions About Biblical Counseling and the Body: Becoming Soul Physicians of Embodied-Souls. For an academic text on a creation, fall, redemption, consummation understanding of human nature in its four-fold...
My Recent Readings and Reflections I’ve been doing a lot of reading lately about the Bible’s teaching on the body. Our biblical understanding of the body has great significance for how biblical counselors minister to people holistically. As I’ve said recently, God...
This morning a thread come up on my Facebook feed. It directed me to a Facebook biblical counseling group where a biblical counselor asked the group this question: “Any critiques of The Logic of the Body: Retrieving Theological Psychology (Studies in Historical and...
