by Bob | Sep 26, 2013 | Biblical Counseling, Biblical Counseling Movement, NANC, Nouthetic, Nouthetic Counseling
Supporting the NANC Proposed Name Change I received this email yesterday from NANC–The National Association of Nouthetic Counselors–regarding their proposed name change. The email, repeated below, shares words of support from leaders in the biblical...
by Bob | Aug 21, 2013 | Biblical Counseling, Biblical Counseling Movement, NANC, Nouthetic, Nouthetic Counseling
Honoring Randy Patten The Biblical Counseling Coalition recently ran an interview that Pastor Paul Tautges did with Randy Patten, the Executive Director of NANC. I took some time to collate the comments. They provide a wonderful testimonial to the humble (Randy...
by Bob | Apr 22, 2013 | Biblical Counseling, David Murray, Jay Adams, Mental Illness, Nouthetic, Nouthetic Counseling
Are Biblical Counselors “Sin Maximizers”? My good friend, David Murray, at his Head/Heart/Hand blog site has provided a number of thoughtful posts on a Christian way of thinking about mental illness. Of particular interest were David’s posts: • Maximizing and...
by Bob | Aug 27, 2012 | 5 to Live By, Jay Adams, Nouthetic, Parenting, Resources
5 to Live By: 5 Top Christian Blog Posts of the Week Linking you to the top 5 Christian blog posts of the week—posts that provide robust, rich, and relevant insights for living. News from the Institute for Nouthetic Studies The Biblical Counseling Coalition is the...
by Bob | Mar 5, 2012 | Biblical Counseling, Nouthetic, Nouthetic Counseling, Reconciling, Spiritual Direction, Spiritual Friends
Dispensers of Grace Note: This is the sixth in a blog mini-series asking the simple question: Is there a biblical model for spiritual friendship, one-another ministry, biblical counseling, and pastoral counseling? Read Part 1: Spiritual Map Quest, Part 2: God’s...
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...
