Heath Lambert’s book, Finally Free: Fighting for Purity with the Power of Grace, is an...
Biblical Counseling: What Is It and Why Is It Important?
Get Outta My Face: How to Reach Angry, Unmotivated Teens with Biblical Counsel by Rick Horne
Rick Horne’s book, Get Outta My Face: How to Reach Angry, Unmotivated Teens with Biblical Counsel,...
Ten Distinctives of Biblical Counseling
People often ask me how biblical counseling differs from other approaches to soul care. Here’s a...
The Goal of this Personal Ministry We Call “Biblical Counseling”
The Lord of the Church is at work. Jesus Christ is building His Church. However, He is not only building His Church, He is also making her holy—a work that He will not stop performing until she is blameless: “…Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her,...
Musings Of A Preaching Biblical Counselor
If you’re anything like me, you can look back on your walk with the Lord and note what I call “high water mark" moments. These are times when my life was changed (sometimes radically) due to a new realization about the Word of God that I was previously unaware of....
How to Equip Yourself to Counsel Biblically
“For Ezra had set his heart to study the law of the Lord and to practice it, and to teach His statutes and ordinances in Israel” (Ezra 7:10). After 70 years in exile, when Israel was returning to Judah, Ezra was charged with re-establishing the interpretation and...
A Task Interrupted: Why and How the Church Departed from Biblical Counseling
When I was introduced to biblical counseling, it seemed as if I had discovered some rare jewel. There were several aspects of the biblical counseling movement that captivated my attention. Classical soul care drew upon a rich heritage of faithful practice by pastors...
Biblical Counseling, the Church, and Church Discipline
As a pastor, I love one of David Powlison’s definitions of biblical counseling: Counseling is one part of the overall ministry of Christ that meets us publicly, privately, and interpersonally…biblical counseling is part of the interpersonal ministry of the Word. God...
Establishing A Biblical Counseling Ministry from Scratch
You are excited about Biblical counseling! Perhaps you were exposed to Biblical counseling at a conference you attended. Perhaps you or a loved one received Biblical counseling and found peace, hope, and joy through the careful study and application of God’s word....