Truth in Love

Featuring: - Engaging in counseling the community - Why People can be reluctant - 3 Part Plan for engaging counselees: 1. Enter Their World 2. Be Prepare Through the Word to Understand Their Need 3. Bring this person Christ and His Answers   Find this podcast transcription here . 

Featuring: - A Critique of the APA's (American Psychological Association) response and definition of masculinity - The moral nature of APA's practices - Support of a biblical definition and standard of manhood   Find this podcast transcription here . 

Featuring: - The First Step in Discipling Your Kids / Begin with your own worship of Christ - Teaching Your Children the Gospel / Start with understanding the sin problem - Recommended Christain and Missionary Biographies for Families - Examples of Modeling Prayer for our Children Resources: Walking With the Giants: A Minister's Guide to Good Reading and Great Preaching, Warren W. Wiersbe https://...

Featuring: - What does it mean to have true biblical friendship? - What to look for in a biblical friend or accountability partner? (Psalm 1, - Psalm 15, Psalm 119:63) - Why you should surround yourself with friends who ask good questions and speak biblical truth. - How to build biblical friendships. - Authentic relationships in the church   Find this podcast transcription here . 

Featuring: - God's Purpose in Your Singleness - Pitfalls that young women face - Psalm 16, Being Glad in God - Encouragement for nervous parents of teens - When your teen has a hard heart to your instruction - Value of older woman in mentorship (Titus 2) Resources: Love Defined and Girl Defined Books: https://www.girldefined.com/girldefinedbook ACBC Conference Lecture: Hope and Help for the Single...

Resources: David Powlison | A Tribute https://biblicalcounseling.com/david-powlison-a-tribute/   Find this podcast transcription here . 

Featuring: - What does "Addiction Intervention" mean? - Steps of pre-intervention - A Case Study of Addiction Intervention Resources: The Heart of Addiction: A Biblical Perspective, Mark Shaw https://www.amazon.com/Heart-Addiction-Biblical-Perspective-ebook/dp/B00IZO6EMQ How Not to Raise an Addict, Mark Shaw https://www.focuspublishing.com/product/how-not-to-raise-an-addict/ Divine Intervention: H...

Featuring: - Ways Tim fought for hope in cancer - How Tim had a conversation with the family about diagnosis and God's - sovereignty and wisdom - God's kindness in sanctifying the local church - Keeping an eternal perspective (2 Corinthians 4) Resources: 2019 Pre-Conference, Human Suffering and Heaven's Hope https://biblicalcounseling.com/conference/suffering/ Trusting God, Jerry Bridges https://w...

Featuring: - First steps in responding to domestic abuse - Building involvement and offering hope - How to keep a victim safe? - What if I am scared to counsel in this situation? - Complementarianism and domestic violence Resources: The Heart of Domestic Abuse: Gospel Solutions for Men Who Use Control and Violence in the Home - Chris Moles https://www.amazon.com/Heart-Domestic-Abuse-Solutions-Viol...

How does testosterone impact men? Medical doctor and biblical counselor Dan Dionne shares his perspective. Featuring: - What is low testosterone? - Understanding a medical perspective - Advice for Biblical Counselors - How can we help a wife support her husband? Resources: TIL 199: Understanding Hormones (feat. Dr. Dionne) https://biblicalcounseling.com/til-199-understanding-hormones/ Gospel and M...

Pastor Tony Anderson sat down with Taron Defevers, staff member at ACBC, to give guidance on how to start a counseling ministry in your local church from his experience as an ACBC certified training center. FEATURING: First Steps - Begin Praying for like-minded leadership and ministry partners. - Equip the staff, then cast a vision for the whole church - Ask mature members to pursue counseling min...

Martha Peace has been counseling as an ACBC member since 1989. On todays podcast Martha reflects on her years of counseling experience. Along the way she has picked up some valuable lessons, and today she passes those lessons on to other biblical counselors. Resources: Website http://marthapeacetew.blogspot.com/ Salvation Worksheets http://lightflycreative.com/files/marthapeace/Salvation%20workshe...

Featuring: - Understanding the concept of Mental Health - Understanding the history and development of Mental Health - Who defines mental health? - The danger os using the mental health labels - Why is mental health a novel idea in the church?   Find this podcast transcription here . 

Featuring: Why having a right understanding of God is the foundation Where do temptations come from? What conditions can increase our temptation? What are the root stages of temptation? (James 1:14) How to respond biblically to temptation? How to pursue hope in the fight of temptation? Resource: The Enemy Within: Straight Talk about the Power and Defeat of Sin - Kris Lundgaard https://www.amazon.c...

Featuring: What does the Bible say about personalities? Narratives and Direct Address How much influence do our personalities have on us? How Should Christian's Think about the enneagram? Traits vs Core Values Understanding the scope of personality test - what they can do, cannot do, and the dangers to avoid with test Why this matters for counseling. Resources: The Dynamic Heart in Daily Life: Con...

Listen to this podcast with ACBC member Caroline Newheiser for a biblical approach that will help you fight gossip and pursue holy God-honoring speech. Featuring: What is Gossip and how can we identify it? Would I see that if this person where here? What standard does God set for how we talk? Gossip is a heart issue Guidance for how to end gossip practically Implications for counseling Truths to r...

Featuring: - Thinking Biblically through the issues in single parenting - Where to begin in ministering to single parents? - Ways to empathize with single parents - How the church can help "Single Parents: Daily Grace for the Hardest Job", Robert Jones https://www.amazon.com/Single-Parents-Daily-Grace-Hardest/dp/1934885274   Find this podcast transcription here . 

Featuring: A Testimony from Camille Cates of tragedy and idolatry to hope in Christ - handling a past abortion - Healing Hearts Ministries - symptoms to be aware of when counseling those who have faced tragedy https://www.healinghearts.org/   Find this podcast transcription here . 

Featuring: 1984 NANC Annual Conference with Jay Adams on "Theology and Counseling are Inseparable" To find this full message visit the ACBC store audio collection entitled "The Legacy Collection" at biblicalcounseling.com Special Prize: Two Annual Conference Tickets Enter for a chance to win two Annual Conference tickets by leaving a rating and comment on the ACBC Facebook page before May 1, 2019...

On this edition of Truth in Love Dr. Dale Johnson discusses the topic of hormones with Dr. Dan Dionne from a medical and biblical perspective. Featuring: Remembering that God designed hormones How should a christian woman think about her hormones in relation to her emotions? The importance of check-ups with physicians The importance of having a good theology of suffering How should a husband suppo...

FEATURING: - Correcting wrong views we can have about God - How can the church establish a correct teaching of the fear of God - Become God-oriented instead of problem-oriented. - How does fearing God affect counseling? - How to teach and model the doctrines of God? - The call of the church to model discipleship. RESOURCES: A.W. Pink, The Attributes of God https://www.amazon.com/Attributes-God-W-P...

Brad Bradnt shares how to help families say, "goodbye" to loved ones passing away on this edition of Truth in Love. Featuring: - See joy as a fruit of the Spirit. - Learn how to cultivate joy in sorrow. - Develop a biblical theology of suffering. - Develop a biblical theology of saying, "Goodbye." Resources: - Hebrews 5:7 - 8, Hebrews 12:2 -3 - "Pain: The Gift Nobody Wants" - Paul Brand - Scriptur...

Featuring: - How the church should think about Abuse from a legal perspective - recommendations for consent forms - steps to further understand your states reporting laws - Updates on Legal issues and gender - A case study of Church law suite Organizations: - Church Law and Tax Report - Christian Legal Society - Alliance Defending Freedom - Center for Law and Religious Freedom Further Resources: C...

On this weeks edition of Truth in Love Dale Johnson interviews Amy Baker on counseling children. Show Notes: Featuring: - Who should counsel children? - Are unique techniques needed in counseling children? - A case-study in counseling children Resources: Amy Baker | The Soul of a Child | An Introduction to Counseling Children https://biblicalcounseling.com/store/all-products/amy-baker-the-soul-of-...

Suspicion by Lou Priolo, book link: https://www.amazon.com/Suspicion-How-Overcome-Paranoid-Thinking/dp/1934952397   Find this podcast transcription here .