A Little History
Back on January 27, 2025, I posted 50 Biblical Counseling Resources on Trauma and Trauma Care. These resources were from biblical groups (CCEF, ACBC, BCC, ABC, BCUK), biblical counseling publications (The Journal of Biblical Counseling, The Journal of Biblical Soul Care), biblical counseling seminaries (MBTS, TMU, SEBTS, FBS, SBTS), and biblical counseling publishers (NGP, P&R, Shepherd Press, Harvest House). Among those materials, I shared the following resource:
Diane Langberg, Suffering and the Heart of God: How Trauma Destroys and Christ Restores Though she would not describe herself as a biblical counselor, this is an important Christian resource for biblical counselors to engage with. Here is the book description by New Growth Press: “Dr. Langberg calls all of those who wish to help sufferers to model Jesus’s sacrificial love and care in how they listen, love, and guide. The heart of God is revealed to sufferers as they grow to understand the cross of Christ and how their God came to this earth and experienced such severe suffering that he too is ‘well-acquainted with grief.’ The cross of Christ is the lens that transforms and redeems traumatic suffering and its aftermath, not only for the sufferer, but it also transforms
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