A couple of weeks ago I watched this video interview with Dr David Powlison, How does Biblical Counseling view Psychiatric Drugs? I had some pastoral concerns about this video, and expressed them in this blog post, Who sinned? This man or his…
A couple of weeks ago I watched this video interview with Dr David Powlison, How does Biblical Counseling view Psychiatric Drugs? I had some pastoral concerns about this video, and expressed them in this blog post, Who sinned? This man or his…
Learn the difference between sympathy and empathy in another tear-jerker from Wrestling with an Angel.
I’m thankful to God for David Powlison, together with his predecessors and successors in the Biblical Counseling movement. By God’s grace, they have restored the pastor’s role in counseling, and led a wonderful reformation of church counseling practice. Their books…
Yesterday I listed the various false thought-patterns that can have an adverse knock-on effect in our souls, our emotions and our behavior. How do we break this “vicious circle?” In Psalm 77, Asaph walks us through his own struggle and…
The Bible says, “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he” (Prov. 23:7). In other words, what we think impacts our emotions, our behavior, and our spiritual lives. Below I’ve listed ten false thought-patterns which have been widely…
Many have attempted to describe the indescribable pain of depression. Numerous similes and metaphors have been used to convey depression’s deep, deep agonies. However, I don’t think I’ve seen anything come so close to describing the indescribable as this deeply…