by Bob | Jun 7, 2011 | 4E Ministry Training Strategy, Equipping Counselors for Your Church, Kevin DeYoung, Pastoral Ministry
Your Résumé from God Yesterday in Christ’s Calling to the Church, I blogged the first part of my response to Kevin DeYoung’s post about The Most Urgent Need in the Church. In my post, I outlined from Ephesians 4:11-12 the résumé of the pastor-teacher. Today, I share...
by Bob | Jun 4, 2011 | 4E Ministry Training Strategy, Biblical Counseling, Discipleship, Equipping Counselors for Your Church
“These Are Your Grandbabies!” Enjoy the last three paragraphs in the Introduction to my upcoming book (September 2001) Equipping Counselors for Your Church: The 4E Ministry Training Strategy. Sister Ellen Barney is the First Lady (Sr. Pastor’s wife) of a large,...
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...
by Bob | May 24, 2011 | Biblical Counseling
Back to the Future: At 21 and at 51 Yesterday in one of my presentations at the Moody Bible Institute Pastors’ Conference, I discussed how I responded to a significant life event when I was 21. That was three decades ago. Yes, I’m 51 now. So I started thinking, “What...
by Bob | May 6, 2011 | 4E Equipping, 4E Ministry Training Strategy, Association of Biblical Counselors, Equipping Counselors for Your Church
Want to Change Lives? I had a great time facilitating the Center for Church Equipping Pre-Conference on Equipping Counselors for Your Church. Hosted by the Association of Biblical Counselors, over sixty attendees participated from a wide array of backgrounds...
