{"id":68602,"date":"2023-12-15T11:55:47","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T17:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=68602"},"modified":"2023-12-15T12:11:45","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T18:11:45","slug":"of-spirituality-and-ice-cubes-a-psalm-and-a-palm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=68602","title":{"rendered":"Of Spirituality and Ice Cubes: A Psalm and a Palm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Word from Bob<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Recently I posted a very personal blog entitled, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/rpmministries.org\/2023\/11\/im-never-more-christ-dependent-than-when-im-doing-deep-breathing-exercises\/\">I\u2019m Never More Christ-Dependent Than When I\u2019m Doing Deep Breathing Exercises<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s post \u201ctakes out the personal story,\u201d and focuses on <em>an introduction to a biblical theology of the body<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll highlight the <em>spirituality of the body<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll emphasize the sacredness of <em>physiological interventions in biblical counseling and progressive sanctification<\/em>.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <strong>The Spirituality of Our Physicality<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed a recent Biblical Counseling Coalition post by Dr. Charles Hodges entitled, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblicalcounselingcoalition.org\/2023\/11\/22\/they-shall-run-and-not-be-weary\/?utm_source=Biblical+Counseling+Coalition+List&amp;utm_campaign=94cfe9794e-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_4197f12852-94cfe9794e-318040445\"><em>They Shall Run and Not Be Weary<\/em><\/a>. I\u2019ve always appreciated Dr. Hodges\u2019s biblical balance regarding being soul physicians of embodied-souls.<\/p>\n<p>In his post, Dr. Hodges interacted with a recent neuroscience study comparing the effectiveness of medication and of running for addressing mood. As part of his conclusions, Dr. Hodges, asked:<\/p>\n<p>  \u201cAs biblical counselors, should we be encouraging those struggling with sadness to go out for a good run?\u201d   \u201cDo you encourage your counselees to include physical activity in their daily regimen when they face persistent sadness?\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>I might add,<\/p>\n<p>  As biblical counselors and <a href=\"https:\/\/rpmministries.org\/2023\/09\/6-biblical-counseling-convictions-shortened-version\/\">soul physicians of embodied-souls<\/a> do we encourage our counselees to address issues comprehensively? Do we minister to them comprehensively, encouraging them to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re exploring the sacredness of physiological interventions in biblical counseling and in progressive sanctification.<br \/>\nThe post Of Spirituality and Ice Cubes: A Psalm and a Palm appeared first on RPM Ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":68604,"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":[5329],"class_list":["post-68602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rpm-ministries-bob-kellemen","tag-embodied-souls","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\/2023\/12\/cropped-RPM-Ministries-Logo-Square-3.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68602","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=68602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68605,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68602\/revisions\/68605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}