by Bob | May 2, 2014 | Biblical Counseling, Empathy, Spiritual Friends
How to Empathize with Your Friends Note from Bob: You’re reading Part Two of a two-part blog post on developing biblical empathy. You can read Part One at Developing the Biblical Counseling Skill of Empathy. How to Empathize: Climbing in the Casket—Hebrews 4:15-16 ...
by Bob | May 1, 2014 | Biblical Counseling, Empathy, Spiritual Friends
Developing the Biblical Counseling Skill of Empathy Sometimes we think that because the world uses a word like “empathy,” therefore, we can’t use that word in biblical counseling. However, many biblical passages urge rich soul empathizing: Rejoice with those who...
by Bob | Mar 2, 2013 | Biblical Counseling, Equipping, Equipping Counselors, Prayer, Soul Physicians, Spiritual Friends
Recruiting Prayer Partners and Feedback Friends Would you like to join me in my latest writing adventure? Over the next eighteen months, I’ll be researching and writing a two-book series designed to serve as equipping manuals for training biblical counselors in the...
by Bob | Jan 15, 2013 | Biblical Counseling, Equipping, Equipping Counselors, One-Another Ministry, Spiritual Friends, Spiritual Friendship
One-Another Ministry—Just the UPS Delivery Guy? In yesterday’s post, I mentioned that this week I’m leading a counseling lab small group at Faith Bible Seminary. In that post I asked: Equipping for Ministry—Just a Brain Dump? I also noted that I have one main premise...
by Bob | Jan 14, 2013 | Biblical Counseling, Equipping, Equipping Counselors, One-Another Ministry, Spiritual Friends, Spiritual Friendship
Equipping for Ministry—Just a Brain Dump? This week I’ll be leading a counseling lab small group at Faith Bible Seminary. I have one main premise when I lead this lab: You learn biblical counseling by giving and receiving biblical counseling in community. Yes,...
by Bob | Jan 8, 2013 | Biblical Counseling, Spiritual Conversations, Spiritual Friends, Spiritual Friendship
The “How-To” of Confronting in Wisdom & Love Note: I’ve adapted this two-part blog series on loving and wise confronting from chapter 12 of Spiritual Friends. Read Part 1 here. Sense Discrepancies by Carefully Hearing the Human Story and God’s Story How do we...
