by Bob | Jan 22, 2025 | Biblical Counseling, Church History, Suffering
Timeless Truth for Our Changing Times You’re reading Part 3 in an ongoing RPM Ministries blog mini-series on Timeless Truth for Our Changing Times: The Ancient Christian Path of Biblical Soul Care. In this series: We’re examining ancient, historical Christian soul...
by Bob | Dec 9, 2024 | Biblical Counseling, Biblical Counseling Books, Suffering
The Thirteenth Annual Edition If you’re a counselor, pastor, student, educator, one-another minister, small group leader, soul care giver, spiritual friend, spouse, or parent, you want to know the most helpful books about biblical counseling. We all want trusted...
by Bob | Dec 4, 2024 | Biblical Counseling, David Powlison, Suffering
Counseling Wars: Counselors Conflicts The modern nouthetic biblical counseling movement has a long history of conflict. This includes conflict with those “outside” the biblical counseling family—with Christian integrative counselors. It also includes inter-family...
by Bob | Oct 24, 2024 | Suffering, Trauma
Musing on “Victory Theology” “Victory theology” falsely claims that “all things can be overcome now in this life.” Yet, Paul said that some things were “beyond his ability to endure” (2 Cor. 1:8). Luther negatively called victory theology “a...
by Bob | Sep 18, 2024 | Suffering, Trauma
Our Unbiblical Thinking About Suffering Much of our thinking about suffering is unbiblical. We tend to think that spiritual maturity somehow inoculates us against the pain of suffering. We falsely imagine that the more spiritually mature we are, the less emotional...
by Bob | Sep 5, 2024 | Suffering, Trauma
The Life-Long, Chronic Suffering of Jesus When we think of Christ as the “man of sorrows” (Isaiah 53:3), we often think primarily of Christ’s suffering on the cross. Of course, the four Gospels do consistently depict Christ’s Passion Week of suffering, crucifixion,...
