by Bob | Mar 31, 2021 | Biblical Counseling
Dr. Bob “Doc” Smith, passed away this week. Because he was a humble man, many do not know him. Yet, he was one of the early leaders in the emerging biblical counseling movement in the 1970s. Dr. Steve Viars, Sr. Pastor at Faith Church in Lafayette, Indiana, where Doc...
by Bob | Mar 10, 2021 | Biblical Counseling, Consider Your Counsel
On my birthday—August 1, 2021—New Growth Press will release my latest book: Consider Your Counsel: Addressing Ten Mistakes in Our Biblical Counseling. For free resources related to the book, click here. To pre-order a copy of Consider Your Counsel, click here. Folks...
by Bob | Feb 28, 2021 | Biblical Counseling, Nouthetic
A Word from Bob Throughout this post, I’ll use the phrase “nouthetic counseling” because it ties in with someone nouthetically confronting nouthetic counseling as a movement. However, nouthetic confrontation is just a slice of historic biblical counseling....
by Bob | Jan 29, 2021 | Biblical Counseling
As biblical counselors, we always want to connect the most relevant biblical passage to our unique counselee’s specific life situation. However, “pet passages” can exert such influence on us that we unhelpfully force them onto people in a one-size-fits-all manner. A...
by Bob | Jan 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
Biblical counselors rightly talk a great deal about “renewing our minds.” But what exactly is included in mind renewal? In today’s post we answer that question by exploring a rich biblical view of the mind—of the imagination. We Are Rational Beings Created in the...
