by Bob | Nov 18, 2025 | Suffering
The Big Idea Here’s today’s blog post in one sentence: “Suffer well” is an extra-biblical term used at times in un-biblical ways that shame people for normal, God-given emotions, and that guilts people into staying in ungodly situations. An Iron-Sharpening-Iron...
by Bob | Nov 4, 2025 | Suffering
The Big Idea For suffering to result in worship, we must face our woundedness and our weaknesses. The Expanded Big Idea In order for suffering to produce worship, we must face our woundedness (the sins that happened to us) and our weaknesses (the struggles occurring...
by Bob | Mar 10, 2025 | Lament, Suffering
Timeless Truth for Our Changing Times You’re reading Part 4 in an ongoing RPM Ministries blog mini-series on Timeless Truth for Our Changing Times: The Ancient Paths of Soul Care. In this series: We’re examining ancient, historical Christian soul care to see what our...
by Bob | Feb 25, 2025 | Suffering, Trauma
A Little History Back on January 27, 2025, I posted 50 Biblical Counseling Resources on Trauma and Trauma Care. These resources were from biblical groups (CCEF, ACBC, BCC, ABC, BCUK), biblical counseling publications (The Journal of Biblical Counseling, The Journal...
by Bob | Feb 10, 2025 | Biblical Counseling, Suffering
My friend and fellow biblical counselor, Sean Perron, recently publicly responded to several of my Twitter/X tweets. In one response to me, Sean said, “The new integrationists are actually integrationists. Despite what they claim. If they want to dispute this, they...
by Bob | Feb 3, 2025 | Biblical Counseling, Suffering
A Word from Bob In the past week, I did something rare—I listened to a podcast. In fact, I listened to two podcasts. I’m much more of a reader than I am a podcast listener. However, I made time for these two timely and relevant podcasts. Perhaps you have noticed some...
