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,...
by Bob | Aug 16, 2024 | Embodied-Souls, Trauma
The Double Trauma of Suffering The trauma of suffering is two-fold. In God’s Healing for Life’s Losses, I introduce the biblical concept of two levels or layers of traumatic-suffering: Level One Suffering: What happens to us. What we experience. “The world is fallen...
by Bob | Jun 7, 2024 | Conflict, Suffering
Recently, I’ve been writing about the current conflicts in the biblical counseling world. In my posts, I’ve been responding to an ongoing, growing series of posts by the folks at First Baptist Jacksonville. My responses, for the most part, have remained at the level...
