Truth in Love

1. Who was Van Til? 2. What was Van Til's presuppositional approach to apologetics? 3. How would Van Til lay out the distingush between what human beings can observe and know? 4. How does a fallen human being use their mind? 5. What is the connection from Van Til to David Powlison? 6. What are ways Van Til influenced the biblical counseling movement through David Powlison? Please click here to fin...

1. Who was Thomas Watson? 2. What stands out about Thomas Watson? 3. What is a Puritan? 4. Why is Watson such an important read for a biblical counselor? 5. What does Watson/Puritans have to lend help to a biblical counselor? 6. Where do we begin reading Watson? Click here to see the booklets we have available?

1. Who are the Puritans? 2. What is unique about this particular set of books? 3. Why should biblical counselors think of this series as an essential read and resource? 4. How should we approach the series? What should we read first? Please click here to register for our conference virtually!

1. Why did the Puritans focus on this so much? 2. How do the Puritans distinguish between categories of temptation? 3. What role does self-knowledge play in resisting temptation? 4. How did the Puritans help give us a sense of moving toward the remedy of temptation? 5. What are some examples of remedies the Puritans gave us for temptation? Click here to register for our Annual Conference: Ancient...

1. Who was John Newton and why should we look to him for counseling? 2. How is John Newton helpful as we think about biblical counseling? 3. What are the factors that informed John Newton's pastoral ministry? Click here to register for our annual conference: Ancient Paths: Soul Care in Past Places

1. What are some of the practical things we can learn from the puritans today? 2. How are the puritans different from the reformers? 3. How to begin reading the puritans? Click here to register for our Annual Conference "Ancient Paths: Soul Care in Past Places"

1. What do you think is the best Scripture passage or two to help counselors combat someone when they say being clinically informed or trauma informed is better than just the Bible? 2. What are percieved strengths or pitfalls to healing memories theory applied to traumatic experiences? Click here to register for our Annual Conference!

1. What are we talking about with AI and counseling? 2. How are these chat bots being used in therapy? 3. How should we think about AI therapy or counseling? 4. How is the church a better place to seek help? Click here to register for our events!

1. How did the Puritans think of keeping and cultivating the heart? 2. How are the spiritual disciplines are a means of grace for us? 3. What are the spiritual disciplines that have helped you the most? 4. What are some books from the puritans that you would recommend on this? Click here to register for our annual conference "Ancient Paths: Soul Care in Past Places"

1. What is the importance of the ministry of the Word and the Church in biblical counseling? 2. What are the means of grace? 3. What are some examples of how these are significant in the life of the believer? 4. How do we think about justification in relation to counseling? 5. How do we think about the Lord's Supper in relation to counseling? 6. How do we implement these concepts in the homework w...

1. How have you partnered with the local church in this endeavor? 2. What are some of the topics in your classes and how do you determine those? 3. How do you face issues of discipline? 4. How do you start to engae when you notice an issue? 5. How does biblical counseling help your school operate in a biblical fashion? Click here to submit an application for our pastor's retreat!

1. How did Kings Academy begin? 2. How to develop a culture of biblical counseling in the school? 3. How do you train staff in biblical counseling? 4. How do you structure your classes to support or teach biblical counseling? Click here to see the CDT's we are doing this Fall!

1. How do we think through the recent use of the term of integration? 2. How to think in categories of essential elements and incidental circumstances in counsleing? 3. What are some of the essential elements? 4. What are some elements that would fundamentally alter biblical counseling? 5. How do we acknowledge the incidental circumastantial elements of biblical counseling? Click here to register...

1. Why is it important to understand God's nature before we counsel? 2. How does God's independence shape our counseling relationships? 3. What does this look like as we shepherd others with God's Word? 4. What does success look like in counseling? 5. How do we guard against pitfalls in ministering the truth of Scripture? Thank you for your prayers. Please click here to learn more about us at ACBC

1. What is psychology and what does it claim to be and do. 2. What is the definition of emprircism? 3. What are some problems that arrise when applying this definition to humanity? 4. What are some other problems when dealing with empiricism? 5. How is empiricism utilized in the DSM? 6. How should we discern as we read psychological information? 7. Final thoughts on opportunity cost? Click here to...

How do we handle despair biblically? Biblical hope in all affliction from 2 Corinthians 1. Click here to learn more about ACBC!

1. God glorifying change as a key tenet of biblical counseling. 2. Where do we get the concept that sanctification is the primary aim in biblical counseling? 3. What texts come to mind when thinking about not adding to God's Word in counseling? 4. Why do we see sanctification as such an important issue when considering helping others in counseling? 5. Where do we see people substituting other idea...

1. Why should counselors be careful when sharing the Gospel? 2. What are the potential pitfalls? 3. How can our mishandling of the Gospel harm someone? 4. How can counselors avoid some of these pitfalls? 5. What resources have helped you? Click here to find the resource Free to Be Holy by Jerry Wragg and Paul Shirley Click here to find out more about what we do at ACBC!

What is a biblical understanding of discontentment? What are common factors that contribute to discontentment? What are the dangers of not dealing with discontentment biblically? What are good resources on discontentment? How can the counselor or pastor think through discontentment? Click here to find out more about ACBC!

1. Who is Bessel Van der kolk? 2. What is the concept of the body keeps the score? 3. What is dissasociation and how do we think about it? 4. How does Van der Kolk utilizes the concept of re-experiencing unresolved trauma? 5. How is Van der Kolk impacted by LeDoux and darwinsim? 6. How does Van der Kolk understand dysregulation? 7. How do we account for different responses if these things genuinel...

1. What is CPTSD? 2. Why was CPTSD excluded from the DSM IV and DSM V? 3. How did Freud influence Judith Herman? 4. What halted this movement in the 80s and 90s? 5. What is Judith Herman's view of a recovery model? 6. What is ACEs and how is it being used today? Click here to find out more about ACBC!

1. How does salvation relate to the mind? 2. How does sanctification and the mind interact spiritually? 3. How does salvation and sanctification affect our understanding of mental health remedies? Click here to register for our annual confernece "Ancient Paths."

1. How did this book come about? 2. What is the crisis in the mental health currently? 3. How did we get to this place? 4. What is the solution? Click here to see the Fall CDT's that we have coming up!

1. What are the weaknesses of the construct of the DSM? 2. What are some of the financial issues surrounding the use of the DSM? 3. What are the weaknesses of the worldviews surrounding the DSM? 4. Is the DSM a "bible" for the counseling world? 5. What are you hoping people walk away with after reading your book? Click  here and submit an application for the REFUGE pastor retreat!

1. How did this book come together? 2. What is the DSM? 3. What does it mean to have a mental disorder diagnosis? 4. What is the DSM and what is it not? 5. What are counselors trying to accomplish with the DSM? 6. How is the DSM a culturally attuned guide? 7. What is the DSM not? Click here to see our past Mental Health Podcasts along with some other resources.