A biblical counseling course at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary helped cement in my mind the power of the Gospel and the Bible to address man’s deepest needs. By this, I mean every need. All of them. Every last one.
Viewing oneself as a fallen sinner who has rebelled against a perfect and all-powerful Creator and then [...]
Posts under ‘Biblical counseling’
Does the Gospel address man’s deepest psychological needs? I’m staking my ministry/life on it
Paul Tripp on marriage
The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (CBMW) today features an article I wrote on Paul David Tripp speaking on marriage.
Along with Russell D. Moore, Tripp is one of the two best, most concrete, communicators I have heard. His insights on marriage are excellent, as he dissects the human heart and rightly explains why conflict [...]
Do you preach the Gospel to yourself?
Tim Challies had a helpful post on preaching the gospel to yourself from Jerry Bridges book “Respectable Sins”.
Here is an excerpt:
In his book Respectable Sins, Jerry Bridges writes about the important discipline of preaching the gospel to yourself every day. Realizing that many people have heard of this discipline but do not know how to practice [...]
Akin on Driscoll, Acts 29
Danny Akin, president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (a pretty decent place to prepare for ministry, from what I have heard though still not as good as my seminary), recently offered his reflections on the 2009 Southern Baptist Convention.
I commend the entire post to you.
Below I have excerpted Akin’s comments on Mark [...]
Are your church’s ministries coherent or discombobulated?
Discipleship funnel
In an earlier post, I presented notes from a presentation[1] I heard arguing that the entire local church is a counseling ministry (with counseling defined as ministering the Word).
The idea is that every ministry of a church is about the work of counseling, or discipleship, with the church’s official counseling ministry providing intensive discipleship.
Because [...]