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Book Review of Autism Spectrum Disorder: Meeting Challenges with Hope by Michael R. Emlet

Book Review of Autism Spectrum Disorder: Meeting Challenges with Hope by Michael R. Emlet

by | Apr 23, 2024 | | 0 |

In growing numbers, I receive calls from families of a child diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). They tell me, “We’re leaving our church because we do not feel welcome,” usually provoked by their child disturbing church services. When I try to make reasoned biblical appeals to stay, they respond, “We’ve tried, and we do not feel wanted.” Some tell stories of church members or even leaders asking them to leave the church. This problem is already significant, and it is growing rapidly with the seemingly exponential increase of people diagnosed with ASD. Continue Reading →

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Book Review of Do You Believe What God Says About You?: How a Right View of Your Identity in Christ Changes Everything by Steve Viars

Book Review of Do You Believe What God Says About You?: How a Right View of Your Identity in Christ Changes Everything by Steve Viars

by | Apr 9, 2024 | | 0 |

In Do You Believe What God Says About You?, pastor and biblical counselor Stephen Viars encourages readers to gain an accurate biblical view of self. The 31 brief chapters each focus on an aspect of biblical identity, including you are loved, you are righteous, you are forgiven, you are blessed, you are adopted, and you have a God-created purpose. As Christians believe what God says about who they are in Christ, they will change the way they think and act—this is an underlying message of the book. Continue Reading →

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Book Review of Identifying Heart Transformation: Exploring Different Kinds of Human Change by Nate Brooks

Book Review of Identifying Heart Transformation: Exploring Different Kinds of Human Change by Nate Brooks

by | Mar 26, 2024 | | 0 |

Identifying Heart Transformation follows David Powlison’s How Does Sanctification Work (Crossway, 2017) and complements it in helpful ways; in particular, its aim to clarify what the heart is in Scripture and how all true heart change occurs. To David Powlison’s factors of sanctification change (truth, suffering and struggle, wise people, and God), Nate Brooks adds a wealth of perspective on details of change. Continue Reading →

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Book Review of Presuppositions of Biblical Counseling: What Historical Biblical Counselors Really Believe by Lou Priolo

Book Review of Presuppositions of Biblical Counseling: What Historical Biblical Counselors Really Believe by Lou Priolo

by | Feb 27, 2024 | | 0 |

Presuppositions are by definition a priori, “what comes first.” Others render it “before knowledge.” What counselors presuppose will ultimately dictate their philosophy and methodology of counseling. Historical biblical counselors presuppose only that which the Bible affirms. In Presuppositions of Biblical Counseling, Lou Priolo unpacks twelve presuppositions (originally postulated by Jay E. Adams) to help readers understand what sets biblical counseling apart from other theories (really, theologies) of counseling. It will also help those in counseling (or seeking counseling) determine if the counselors from whom they are seeking help are truly biblical. Continue Reading →

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12 Top Biblical Counseling Books of 2023

12 Top Biblical Counseling Books of 2023

by | Jan 23, 2024 | | 0 |

This post originally appeared at RPM Ministries here: 12 Top Biblical Counseling Books of 2023. The Twelfth Annual Edition If you’re a counselor, pastor, student, educator, one-another minister, small group leader, soul care giver, spiritual friend, spouse, or parent, you want to know the most helpful books about biblical counseling. We all want trusted recommendations… read more
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Book Review of Mobilizing Church-Based Counseling: Models for Sustainable Church-Based Care by Brad Hambrick

Book Review of Mobilizing Church-Based Counseling: Models for Sustainable Church-Based Care by Brad Hambrick

by | Jan 23, 2024 | | 0 |

We need to concentrate biblically on ministry. Although thinking innovatively about meeting ministry needs is one more demand on a busy Christian leader’s schedule, all will ignore it to their peril. The early New Testament church constantly rebooted existing ministry models with new applications focused on addressing the spiritual needs of God’s people who struggled with sinning and suffering. The Apostle Paul’s letter ministry might be a good example, particularly when a pastoral understudy delivered and read them to the congregation. In the present study, Brad Hambrick calls us to recapture this creative mindset for meeting ministry needs by offering a framework—in pedagogical terms, a curriculum—for churches to start a counseling ministry built around two models: lay-led counseling groups and mentoring.
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My Picks for the Top Books of 2023

My Picks for the Top Books of 2023

by | Dec 7, 2023 | | 0 |

As another year draws to a close, I wanted to take some time to consider the books I read in 2023 and to assemble a list of my top picks. Apart from the first book, which I consider the best I read this year, the rest are in no particular order. In each case I’ve included a brief excerpt from my review. (You can read my reviews of these books and many others here.) Reforming Criminal Justice: A Christian Proposal …

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Book Review of Loneliness: Connecting with God and Others by Lou Priolo

Book Review of Loneliness: Connecting with God and Others by Lou Priolo

by | Nov 21, 2023 | | 0 |

Dr. Lou Priolo, counseling pastor at Christ Covenant Church in Atlanta, Georgia, and founder and president of Competent to Counsel International, writes for the Resources for Biblical Living Series and serves as series editor. The present study expands his earlier treatment, “Why Are You Lonesome Tonight” with the conviction that you can’t solve a problem biblically unless you first diagnose it in biblical terms. This clear and welcome response to a complex problem sets the tone for the book’s importance. Continue Reading →

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The Truth About Lies

The Truth About Lies

by | Nov 16, 2023 | | 0 |

We live in a world of lies, a world in which the truth is so often obscured behind deception and made opaque behind falsehood. Though God is a God of truth, the enemy is a liar who will say anything to lead people astray, a deceiver who will stop at nothing to turn people away from the Lord. Though nobody wants to be taken in by lies, so many fall prey. Mack Stiles’ The Truth About Lies is a book …

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A Day’s Journey

A Day’s Journey

by | Nov 4, 2023 | | 0 |

In January of 2023, Tim Keesee and I set out on a journey—a journey that has since taken us around the world. Together we have visited twenty-odd countries spread across all six inhabited continents. But before we embarked on that journey, Tim had found himself a traveler on a very different journey—a journey through cancer. And that is the subject of his new book A Day’s Journey. Yet this is not just a memoir of diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis. As …

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Book Review of Hope: Living Confidently in God by John Crotts

Book Review of Hope: Living Confidently in God by John Crotts

by | Oct 24, 2023 | | 0 |

Pain-racked, Job cries out in despair, “Where then is my hope” (Job 17:15). We might ask if we have ever felt that way. Circumstances of life, particularly trials and suffering, can easily diminish our hope by clouding our vision. When we find ourselves overwhelmed with confusion and despair, it is time to look up to God. John Crotts’ study of hope informs this response. Continue Reading →

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Does God Care About Gender Identity?

Does God Care About Gender Identity?

by | Oct 19, 2023 | | 0 |

It’s hard to believe, but it was just a very short time ago that nobody believed in gender identity. At least, nobody believed in what the term has come to encompass today. As with so many social phenomena, it came slowly and then all at once. Suddenly it became an accepted “fact” that sex and gender can no longer be used interchangeably but instead refer to completely different realities so that a woman can have the body of a man …

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