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Dale Johnson

serves as the Executive Director of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors. He is also the regular host of ACBC’s Truth in Love podcast.

How To Handle Despair

Truth in Love 524

In a fallen world, we are bound to face despair at some point in our lives. The Bible helps us to understand our despair and lay our cares before a God that cares for us.

Jul 7, 2025

God Glorifying Change

Truth in Love 523

“We’re actually trying to get at the motivation. Until the person we’re discipling learns to adopt these new God-honoring motivations, then we could say our shepherding work isn’t done”

Jun 30, 2025

Potential Pitfalls of Gospel Centered Counseling

Truth in Love 522

The Biblical Counselor needs to use the gospel in a way that is faithful to all of Scripture and carries out the ultimate goal of God’s glory through sanctification.

Jun 23, 2025

A Heart of Discontentment

Truth in Love 521

Discontentment is a silent killer; It kills the person who’s discontent first, and then by association and extension, it affects everybody else in that person’s circle.

Jun 16, 2025

Does the Body Keep the Score?

Truth in Love 520

Dale Johnson: Today on the podcast, I have with me Dr. Francine Tan. She’s a biblical counselor from Malaysia. She’s been certified with ACBC since […]

Jun 9, 2025

Complex Trauma

Truth in Love 519

The Biblical Counselor can discern what is behind popular theories in psychology, such as the framework of repressed memories that drive concepts like Complex Trauma and EMDR—which many secularists deny as valid.

Jun 2, 2025

Lies My Therapist Told Me— Part 2

Truth in Love 518

The secular therapeutic world will label anxiety and depression as illnesses, of the inmaterial mind. Instead, search the Bible for the clarity and hope found in how God sees us and our problems.

May 26, 2025

Lies My Therapist Told Me— Part 1

Truth in Love 517

The secular therapeutic world believes that the immaterial mind can become ill. Biblical language offers clarity and understanding for the brain-mind distinction.

May 19, 2025

Biblical Counseling and Mental Disorder Diagnosis— Part 2

Truth in Love 516

As even secularists have begun questioning the reliability of the DSM diagnosis, the biblical counselor can rest in the Bible and its sufficiency in understanding people and their experiences in a broken world.

May 12, 2025

Biblical Counseling and Mental Disorder Diagnosis— Part 1

Truth in Love 515

Biblical Counselors can approach life’s hardships and mental health diagnoses with clarity, compassion, and biblical conviction.

May 5, 2025

Hearing the Voice Within

Truth in Love 514

Be wary of the temptation to bypass the Bible by seeking to hear God’s voice through spiritual, emotional impressions.

Apr 28, 2025

Is Worry Sinful?

Truth in Love 513

Worry as sin is a liberating truth in the life of the Christian, leading them to trust God and place their hope in Him.

Apr 21, 2025