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.
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”
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.
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.
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 […]
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
