Facts Before Interpretation: The Counselor’s Guide to Data Gathering
The 10th chapter is about data collection about the problem of the counselee. To emphasize its importance, Wayne Mack cited two biblical stories to illustrate the danger of a…
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Lasting Change in the Context of Grace: A Covenantal Perspective
In discussion of counseling where the immediate goal is change, questions such as “How people change? ” and “How to help people change? ” are the main issues being addressed.…
Counseling the Heart: From Counterfeit Hope to Divine Certainty
Last week, we discussed The Person-Oriented Paradigm: Developing a Helping Relationship in our biblical counseling class. In it, we saw the importance of shifting from a…
Can Evil Spirits Physically Touch Humans? - Topic Review
When the instruction was made in the scriptures that thou shall not touched my announced, God knows that though the agents of the darkness can claim to be powerful but he must…
Reading Response 1: The Reluctant Counselor: How God Is Shifting My Perspective
We cannot hide the fact that Biblical counseling is an interesting and hot topic over the years. Until now, there have been many discussions about this. In my three-year stay in…
The Person-Oriented Paradigm: Developing a Helping Relationship
I spent two days preparing for tomorrow's lecture for our biblical counseling class. How I wish that my students, too, would spend time reading and studying the material. Two…
Love as the Heart and End of Christian Ministry
If I speak in the tonguesa of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all…
From Sluggard to Steward: A Reflection on Slothfulness
It's been more than two months since I've last posted my "weekly devotion" (kuno). So I do apologize for my own inconsistency. Perhaps this devotion also is part of my…
Why Change Begins with God’s Covenant
In the second part of Counseling: How to Counsel Biblically, John MacArthur, Douglas Bookman, and Robert Smith gave us four chapters to lay down the theological foundations of…
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