I’m all for medication. If it helps, take it. By all means. But before you do, let’s talk about what we mean by ‘helps.’ If we mean it relieves immediate pain and suffering, I’m for it. I take aspirin for headaches. It’s a good thing. On the other hand, if taking the medication hides something […]
Where is Jesus In All This?
Hmmm not sure where you are going with this. But I will say I have 3 children in my home who have experienced trauma at a young age. Trauma effects our brains in a physical way which then plays out in emotions and behaviors because it effects our brains. Just like western medicine I am […]
God Is No Patcher
As William Tyndale put it, when God “buildeth he casteth all downe first. He is no patcher.” In the same way, the love of the Christian husband does not proceed from reading the “right books,” including this one, or going to the right seminars. God will not patch His grace onto some humanistic psychological nonsense—even […]
Things Our Culture’s Counselors Never Say
You can find this whole article here. It is authored by Jared Oliphint. Why do we put the adjectives “biblical” … in front of “counseling”? We want to consider the things that our culture’s counselors never say: It does not get said in our culture’s counseling that “Man does not live by bread alone, but by […]
ANYTHING HAPPENING IN THE NEUROSCIENCES?
By: Ed Welch This article was lifted from the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation (CCEF) Blog. If you follow any regular news sources, you will hear about recent studies of the brain that claim amazing things. Similarly, nearly every week I receive a brochure about some seminar that will allegedly equip me to help re-wire somebody’s […]
Words In God’s Mouth
The following is part of a discussion I am having with a gent on LinkedIn. Howdy, I agree with you that we shouldn’t put anything in the mouth of God that he has not put there. Neither should we attribute anything to him that he has not said. I totally agree. As an example of […]
Modern Baals In Our Churches
Two Streams About a decade before Jay Adams began his quest to make the Bible the foundation and guide for all counseling, Christian people who were trained in non-Christian psychology began to see that the church was lacking in the proper care of souls. Churches were either not teaching the Word of God because they […]
A stark contrast
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 […]
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.