How Should Pastors Be Equipped for Pastoral Counseling? This November 14 in Milwaukee at the 64th annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS), at a session on pastoral counseling, I will be addressing the question: How Should Pastors Be Equipped for...
How to Authorize Release of Information What do you do if a church member is seeing a professional counselor, psychiatrist, or medical doctor, and also seeing you as a pastor or church-based counselor? How do you request information so that you can best help those...
God’s Treasure Map Note: This is the second in a blog mini-series asking the simple question: Is there a biblical model for spiritual friendship, one-another ministry, biblical counseling, and pastoral counseling? Read Part One: Spiritual Map Quest. I’m summarizing...
Spiritual Map Quest Note: This is the first in a blog mini-series asking the simple question: Is there a biblical model for spiritual friendship, one-another ministry, biblical counseling, and pastoral counseling? I’m summarizing these posts from Spiritual Friends. ...
The Democracy of the Dead If we are to practice biblical counseling effectively today, we need to understand our historical roots. As G. K. Chesterton noted: “Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the...