The Lorica: Saint Patrick’s Morning Prayer

The Lorica: Saint Patrick’s Morning Prayer

The following prayer by St. Patrick has been variously titled Morning Prayer, The Breastplate, or The Lorica. Some question whether St. Patrick actually wrote it, or whether someone else penned it years later and it was ascribed to St. Patrick. However, for centuries...
Counseling the “Biblicized” Counselee

Counseling the “Biblicized” Counselee

I’m Pondering…  These are some initial ponderings—thinking out loud, if you will. Musing. So…ponder with me… You may recall David Powlison’s classic article from 1996, How Do You Help a “Psychologized Counselee”?  In his editorial, Powlison discussed biblical...
3 Major Biblical Problems with Elihu’s Counseling of Job

3 Major Biblical Problems with Elihu’s Counseling of Job

What to Make of Elihu’s Counsel to Job I’ve spent the past several months reading the Bible cover-to-cover seeking to discern the Bible’s teaching on traumatic-suffering and embodied-souls. So far I’ve studied Genesis 1 to Psalms 150. I have over 400 pages of...
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