A Word from Bob
Recently, I concluded a three-part blog mini-series, which I turned into a free PDF: Discussing and Applying Jeremy Lelek’s Biblical Counseling Basics.
I decided to engage with another important biblical counseling book, Nate Brooks’s Identifying Heart Transformation: Exploring Different Kinds of Human Change. As with my engagement with Lelek’s book, so with Brooks’s book, my interactions are more than a book review. Instead, I want us to discuss and apply Nate’s book. Here’s how I’ll seek to do that:
First, I’ll share my initial impression of Identifying Heart Transformation (IHT). Second, I’ll briefly introduce you to the author, Dr. Nate Brooks, and to his book. Third, to provide the context for discussing the book, I’ll provide representative quotes that seek to capture the essence of various topics covered in the book. Fourth, I’ll seek to apply the book by asking questions for us to ponder. As a professor, I called these “PDQs”: Prompting Discussion Q Sometimes those PDQs will be directed to all of us. Sometimes I’ll specifically ask Dr. Brooks a PDQ. My Initial Impression: Scripture-Saturated, Theologically-Rich
They say that once is an accident, twice is a coincidence, and three times is a pattern. If
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