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Samuel Stephens

serves as the Director of Membership and Certification at ACBC and Assistant Professor of Biblical Counseling at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

The Goal of Biblical Counseling

Truth in Love 269

What are we trying to accomplish? What are we setting out to do in the counseling room?

Jul 27, 2020

The Nature of Biblical Counseling

Truth in Love 267

Join Dr. Johnson and Dr. Stephens as they clearly define what their description of biblical counseling means.

Jul 20, 2020

Counseling Families with Aging Relatives

Truth in Love 266

How do younger generations biblically think about caring well for those who are aging?

Jul 6, 2020

Helping Men Lead in Their Home

Truth in Love 262

By understanding what godly leadership looks like, men will be able to lead well in their homes.

Jun 8, 2020

The Diseasing of Anxiety and Depression

Truth in Love 260

What is the problem with labeling anxiety and depression as diseases?

May 25, 2020

The Problem with the Mental Illness Narrative

Truth in Love 259

What do “mental illness” and “mental disorder” mean?

May 18, 2020

Biological Psychiatry

Truth in Love 258

The historical narrative of biological psychiatry helps us understand how we got to where we are today.

May 11, 2020

The Bible of Psychiatry

Truth in Love 257

What is the DSM? How should biblical counselors approach it and think about it in a biblical way?

May 4, 2020

The Remedy for Self-Affliction

Truth in Love 250

Those who self-harm often feel they’re all alone, but in Christ we are never alone. He never leaves us as His children.

Mar 16, 2020

What the Bible says about Codependency

Truth in Love 243

How does a biblical view of codependency differ from a secular view?

Jan 27, 2020

Parenting and the Bullied Child

Truth in Love 232

Helping our children turn towards deliberate reflection on the gospel is very important because we’ve wronged God infinitely more than that bully has wronged our children.

Nov 13, 2019

Reorienting the Therapeutic

Truth in Love 226

The therapeutic mindset is focused on eradicating disease.

Sep 30, 2019