What Does the Bible Teach About the Body, the Embodied-Soul, Traumatic-Suffering, Science, Neuroscience, and Research? In 2022, I started collating a list of resources I had produced on Counseling the Whole Person. It started with 15 resources. It keeps growing. Now...
A Word from Bob I developed the following post from a a Twitter/X thread I shared regarding biblical counseling and neuroscience. The question: As biblical counselors, can we be committed to the sufficiency of Scripture and use neuroscience findings in our...
The Discussion (“Debate”) In our modern biblical counseling world, there has always been a lot of discussion about the proper use of extra-biblical material, including psychological research. For one historical example, read about how Jay Adams, John Bettler, and...
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...
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...
Fascinating Reading from Jay Adams in 1970 I’ve read Jay Adams’s Competent to Counsel several times over the past 50 years. Here’s something I had not thought a lot about until now: Jay’s view and use of neuroscience. Perhaps my past two years of...
