{"id":120656,"date":"2025-05-05T12:48:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T17:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=120656"},"modified":"2025-05-05T12:55:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T17:55:00","slug":"the-2025-abc-called-to-counsel-conference-christ-centered-truth-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=120656","title":{"rendered":"The 2025 ABC Called to Counsel Conference: Christ-Centered Truth for Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Guest Post by Sarah Puebla<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re reading the second in a series of posts about the recent Association of Biblical Counselors (<a href=\"https:\/\/christiancounseling.com\/\">ABC<\/a>) 2025 Conference: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calledtocounsel.com\/\"><em>Called to Counsel<\/em><\/a>. On Facebook and X\/Twitter, I put out this call:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Did you attend the ABC <em>Called to Counsel <\/em>Conference? Would you like to share a public testimony that I could post at RPM Ministries?<\/p>\n<p>Several people have already responded. The first post was by Dr. Tim Allchin. You can read it here: <a href=\"https:\/\/rpmministries.org\/2025\/05\/abc-conference-2025\/\"><em>Similarities and Differences Between the ABC and the ACBC Conferences<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s post is by Sarah Puebla. Sarah is the director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocbcbartow.org\/\">Oak City Biblical Counseling Center<\/a> in Bartow, Florida. She received her biblical counseling certification through the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors in May of 2021. Since then she has been serving in her local church to give hope, healing, and joy through the teaching of the Word of God to women in the context of counseling. Sarah is wife\u00a0to David, mom to four grown children, and \u201cRaRa\u201d to a sweet granddaughter. Adoption is a big part of her story! Sarah is in seminary at Birmingham Theological Seminary working on her MA in Biblical Counseling.<\/p>\n<p>Here are Sarah Puebla\u2019s reflections<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ABC conference dove into the deep water of theology and Christ-centered teaching that builds us up\u2014taking biblical truths and applying them to our lives and ministries.<br \/>\nThe post The 2025 ABC Called to Counsel Conference: Christ-Centered Truth for Life appeared first on RPM Ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":120663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[2395,145],"class_list":["post-120656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rpm-ministries-bob-kellemen","tag-association-of-biblical-counselors","tag-biblical-counseling","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2025-ABC-Called-to-Counsel-5-1.jpg?fit=600%2C300&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120664,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120656\/revisions\/120664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/120663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}