In Gospel Conversations: How to Care Like Christ, I present a model of counseling people who are suffering. It includes biblical sustaining empathy and biblical healing hope. Sustaining: “It’s Normal to Hurt”—Empathizing and Sharing Christ’s Comfort (2 Corinthians...
The Annual Guide to Biblical Counseling Resources Today’s post is an excerpt from a 115-page PDF with an annotated list of nearly 500 biblical counseling resources, organized by topic: The Annual Guide to Biblical Counseling Resources: Truth for Life, 2018 Edition...
A friend of mine recently sent me a blog post from about a year ago entitled Is Mental Illness Actually Biblical? I read that post and one that preceded it and one that followed it. All three are penned by Stephen Altrogge and posted at the Blazing Center. I’ve read...
It’s important to ponder the Psalms and how they view “depression.” It is such a rich view. Honestly, it makes a DSM-V view of depression seem quite flat and shallow by comparison. Richness in Definition/Descriptions of Depression In the Psalms we discover a great...
5 Top Christian Blog Posts of the Week: 5 to Live By 5 top Christian blog posts of the week—on depression, sleep, medication, counseling wars, Ken Ham, prayer, and more. Counseling Wars? Charles Hodges, M.D., doesn’t think the issue of depression and medication is...