Trauma impacts every aspect of a victim, including how they read the Bible. The horrors of trauma can become a primary lens through which people read the Bible, distorting and coloring the text in destructive ways. Faithful biblical counselors will need to help trauma victims learn to read the Bible from God’s perspective instead of their own. Continue Reading →
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Trauma destroys in such profound ways that the notion that Jesus can help sometimes feels empty. It is important to be specific about what Jesus does. Jesus can help us face trauma by offering three key elements: compassion, comfort, and solidarity. Continue Reading →
Read More“It wasn’t adultery; it was just an emotional affair.” She said these words as a form of self-defense. Her husband, as she saw it, was overreacting. She had been inappropriately texting, spending time with, and sharing details of her life with a co-worker, but there had been no physical contact. Distinguishing between “types of adultery” is often a means of either elevating or minimizing the nature of the relationship. The Bible, however, does not allow us to draw hard lines between types of inappropriate relationships. According to Scripture, adultery relates to both emotional and physical connections because it is fundamentally an issue of our own hearts. Continue Reading →
Read MoreAnxiety can often become a filter through which we interpret our various circumstances. Wrestling with anxiety will require us not simply to take our thoughts captive, but to identify the specific filters we are prone to use and respond to them uniquely with the relevant truth of God’s character and Word. Continue Reading →
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