Biblical Counseling Podcast

Dr. Kevin Carson and Pastor Jeff Christianson dive deeper into understanding the balance of God's grace in Part 2 of our interview series. Here Kevin suggests four cautions when offering God's grace that is available to all of God's people. Listen to the episode to learn more about the majesty of God's grace! 📄   Download the FREE ebook!   📢  Register for the IABC 2022 Conference

In this first episode of a 2-part interview, Dr. Kevin Carson joins Jeff Christianson to explore the comfort and the call of God's grace. Understanding the balance of God's grace helps the follower of Christ both move forward in personal sanctification as well as when helping others in personal ministry as well. Listen to the full episode to learn more about the majesty of God's grace! 📄 Download...

Romans 5-8 contains majestic core truths of Christiansity. We find out what the difference is between being in Adam and in Christ. Man's problems are in Adam, and God's provides a remedy in Christ. How important is it to understand the privilege and the power of God's grace. Listen to the full episode and learn more about God's grace.  📄 Download the FREE ebook! Click to download 📢 Register for...

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When you think about biblical counseling, what do you think about it? How important is it for us to have a prayerful God-seeking heart? Where does prayer fit in? Usually, people think counseling is for people who are deeply troubled emotionally but, we all need a word of counsel. When God is allowed to be who He is in your life and in the life of those you counsel, He is the wonderful counselor. T...

John 16:13,14  "However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you." These are the words of the Lord Jesus, teaching in the upper room to his disciples, discipling them.  Much...

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What does God's Way in Counseling mean? This means that God uses the Word to get his counsel into our lives and impact us by his counsel. (Psalm 119:24 NKJV) Your testimonies also are my delight And my counselors. (Psalm 119:105 NKJV) Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path. (Psalm 119:130 NKJV) The entrance of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple. (John 17:17...

What is selfishness and why is it important for us to demolish it? Why do we need to understand the gravity of its effects on us as Christians, as neighbors, as biblical counselors? What can we do to reverse this? In this episode, Pastor Jeff Christianson shares his thoughts about excerpts from the book: Selfishness from Loving Yourself to Loving Your Neighbor by Dr. Lou Priolo. Listen to the full...

Those called to counsel will offer ministry 1. Through His Word. 2. By His Spirit. 3. With A Prayerful Seeking Heart. 4. In the Context of Church Life, Relational with His People. That's how God works His counsel into our hearts and lives and those we minister. We are all called to counsel! ----------- Get on the waitlist! BiblicalCounselingAcademy.com

There are three goals in soul care. Number one, every believer in Christ needs a word of counsel from God regularly. It's important to find His knowledge and wisdom in our lives especially if we are going to be instruments of His counsel for others. Number two, we ask God to equip us to counsel others His way. We all need to grow in this area because all Christians are called to give a word of cou...

Have you noticed in our today's society, we always hear people ask before participating or helping, "What's in it for me?" We're living in a time where humanity loves itself. In this week's episode, join Pastor Jeff Christianson, and let's talk about selfishness and how do we start from loving ourselves to loving our neighbor. How do you begin to overcome fear and selfishness? Share your thoughts...

An important part of Biblical Counseling is the topic of "Conflict Resolution", just learning about communication. As we grow in the Lord, as we are walking with Jesus, we are always learning to be better communicators. How do we accelerate that growth? In this podcast episode, Pastor Jeff Christianson shares how words are powerful and how the Bible can teach us how to communicate. Join the discus...

Conflict resolution is an important part of your counseling ministry. When a conflict happens, there's a temptation to respond inappropriately. We want to learn more to respond biblically. We know that we cannot produce a Godly life on our own. In terms of conflict, it must source with God above working upon us, in us and through us. Do you think you have developed a tendency to respond to conflic...

Does it ever seem like the only thing that will be appropriate that could possibly help is a perfect place to hide in safety? Do you ever feel like, if God doesn't give strength, you'll never have any? Sometimes life comes like a crushing and breaking of our hearts. The more that a person is crushed in spirit, the more the Lord can use them. You see, the Lord is never nearer than when the heart is...

Psalm 73:24 the psalmist confesses a great truth: "You will guide me with Your counsel, And afterward receive me to glory." This is to be our confidence for time and eternity.  Throughout time God will guide us with His counsel, if we let Him, if we look to Him, and if we trust Him to do so.  And afterward, what will He do?  As we're walking along that path of His counsel, He'll just receive us ri...

Now Enrolling: BiblicalCounselingAcademy.com Biblical Counseling Can Be Described As: 1:1 Soul Care, Ministering to One Another It begins with the Lord as Counselor. The comprehensive, all-sufficient wisdom and knowledge of Jesus, our Wonderful Counselor. He is given to us for discipleship and sanctification, Through the life-giving, life-changing, life-liberating, life-sustaining truth of the wor...

This podcast episode talks about a pastor's perspective on what it means to equip the saints for the work of the ministry. In these days that we are living in, we need an army of equipped and passionate biblical counselors committed to the authority and the sufficiency of the scripture. We begin with discussing the role of the pastor-teacher in Ephesians 4:12.  Listen to the full episode as Pastor...

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Are you interested in training to counsel others God's way? Listen to the latest podcast episode as Pastor Jeff Christianson discusses the three purposes of our training. Find out more about the Biblical Counseling Academy and stay tuned as enrollment opens for a course of study that will help you become certified. ---- PS: Are you interested in a series of passages from the Bible to help you gain...

This is the last episode of our 5-part series about the Counselor Evaluation. Certified Counselors in training are evaluated by their professors to ensure the counselor has a biblical framework. In this series, Jeff Christianson and Bill Hines discuss the typical questions asked on a Counselors's Evaluation.   ----- PS: A series of passages from the Bible to help you gain a perspective in the mids...

This is part 4 of our 5-part series about the Counselor Evaluation. Certified Counselors in training are evaluated by their professors to ensure the counselor has a biblical framework. In this series, Jeff Christianson and Bill Hines discuss the typical questions asked on a Counselors's Evaluation.   ----- PS: This self-paced tutorial will help you overcome trials, difficulties, and impossibilitie...

This is part 3 of our 5-part series about the Counselor Evaluation. Certified Counselors in training are evaluated by their professors to ensure the counselor has a biblical framework. In this series, Jeff Christianson and Bill Hines discuss the typical questions asked on a Counselors's Evaluation.   ----- PS: This is a simple, yet powerful (Hebrews 4:12), time of learning from God's Word. https:/...

This is part 2 of our 5-part series about the Counselor Evaluation. Certified Counselors in training are evaluated by their professors to ensure the counselor has a biblical framework. In this series, Jeff Christianson and Bill Hines discuss the typical questions asked on a Counselors's Evaluation.   ----- PS: Have you ever gone through a trial and thought, "This difficulty is so strange" and "Thi...

Certified Counselors in training are evaluated by their professors to ensure the counselor has a biblical framework. In this 5-part series, Jeff Christianson and Bill Hines discuss the typical questions asked on a Counselors's Evaluation.   --- PS: Have you ever gone through a trial and thought, "This difficulty is so strange" and "This is pointless" and "There is no way out of this." Let's talk a...