by Bob | Mar 2, 2026 | Nouthetic Counseling
An Alternative History Have you read any “alternative history” books? Maybe it’s a book that imagines what might have happened if the North had lost the Civil War. What would life in America be like ten years later? What would it be like now? Maybe it’s a book that...
by Bob | Jul 18, 2024 | Nouthetic Counseling
The Bible on Biblical Counseling In April of 2024, the Association of Biblical Counselors published my latest book: Parakaleo and Noutheteo: Understanding and Applying Two Richly Practical Biblical Counseling Words. As the title and subtitle suggest, both...
by Bob | Jul 17, 2024 | Nouthetic Counseling, Parakaletic Counseling
Allow Me to Introduce You to Two Friends: Parakaleo and Noutheteo In April of 2024, the Association of Biblical Counselors published my latest book: Parakaleo and Noutheteo: Understanding and Applying Two Richly Practical Biblical Counseling Words. I selected...
by Bob | May 6, 2024 | Biblical Counseling, Nouthetic Counseling
A Provocative Facebook Post Recently, Pastor Mark Williams, who oversees a nouthetic counseling site on Facebook, posted the following opinion on his nouthetic site and on his personal Facebook page. “Don’t call yourself a biblical counselor if you do not believe the...
by Bob | Nov 5, 2023 | Nouthetic Counseling, Self-Assessment
A Word From Bob Today’s post is a shortened version of 3 Nouthetic Cautions About Nouthetic Critiques of Others: From John Bettler. In that longer post, John Bettler asked, In our desire to biblically assess counseling models, have we been unfair to the views of...
by Bob | Nov 4, 2023 | John Bettler, Nouthetic Counseling
John Bettler Responds to Jay Adams It’s 1987. Almost twenty years have passed since Jay Adams launched the modern nouthetic counseling movement. John Bettler, a good friend of Jay Adams, is “the second ranking leader” in the nouthetic counseling world after Adams....
