Author: Nate Brooks

“Our emotions are complex.” So begins the back cover to J. Alasdair Groves and Winston T. Smith’s book, Untangling Emotions. Groves and Smith purpose to help the reader better understand and engage their own emotions, with the ultimate aim being to glorify God through emotional experience and expression. Continue Reading →

Every biblical counselor worth their salt cares deeply about theology. Biblical and theological studies are the lifeblood of our discipline, as our counseling will only be as strong as our grasp of God’s explanations of who we are and what we ought to be. Theology provides the framework for what we’re doing in counseling, driving our interpretation of the Scriptures, our understanding of man, and how we interpret human experience. To be a biblical counselor is to be a theologian and to be interested in theology. However, a distinction ought to be drawn between being interested in theology and interested in academic historical theology. Just as not every Scripture is equally relevant to the question at hand in a counseling situation, not every work of theology is equally relevant to the practice and craft of counseling. Continue Reading →