All counseling is about change. Every psychotherapeutic theory seeks some type of change in the counselee’s life. But there is a major problem that is fundamental to the field of psychotherapy. It may surprise you to learn there are over 300 distinctive theories of psychotherapy in the world today. Depending on the type of therapy […]
What Dying To Yourself Looks Like
In the light of her comments about things not changing or getting better, I wonder if telling her the depression/mania situation will probably never change, like Paul’s thorn in the flesh, and that she’s going to have to learn to live with it would be helpful. I wonder if we need to help her see […]
Introduction to Biblical Counseling Conference
This conference is for anyone who seems drawn to people who need help in their walk with God. Biblical Counseling is more about helping people mature in Christ than it is about trying to be a therapist or a psychologist.
misplaced affections
Show me a person who has lost hope and I’ll show you a person who has misplaced affections. When the weight of our problems outweigh the weight of the Gospel in our lives, we are not far from discouragement, anger, and despair. Counseling solutions.
Loving God
by Lisa Leidenfrost Math 22:37 “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment.” If this is the greatest commandment, do we love God with all our heart, soul and mind? We could respond, ‘Yes, but I do it […]
Jenn Chen’s Biblical Counseling Testimony
This link takes you to a great testimony of a young woman’s struggle with psychology as it came face to face with her real life. And her joy at meeting God in the struggles of her life through Biblical Counseling. Jen is part of the LightHouse Community Church in Torrance, CA.
No Place For Integration
I’m coming to a harder and harder position concerning the ability of secular psychology to address the ills that plague our minds and behaviors. I think non-Christians do a great job at the research end of things, but as soon as they begin interpreting or explaining what they see, because of their faulty philosophical presuppositions, […]
Biblical Counseling is Not Secular Psychology
“I can’t come to your conference because I don’t like psychology. All that stuff makes my head hurt.” “You have to learn a new vocabulary and you have to buy a couch, and you have to go to school for a long, long time.” “Counseling is hard. You have to be able to get inside people’s […]
Wounds Rather Than Heals
There is a way of using theology and theological arguments that wounds rather than heals. This is not the fault of theology and theological arguments; it is the fault of the “miserable comforter” who fastens on an inappropriate fragment of truth, or whose timing is off, or whose attitude is condescending, or whose application is […]