Speak The Truth

Episode Notes: ◎ There will be 4 pre-conference sessions      ◎ John Henderson (Author Of The Equipped To Counsel Curriculum)      ◎ Elise Fitzpatrick - Author of numerous books      ◎ Lee Lewis      ◎ Panel Discussion ◎ Conference Theme     ◎ The Kingdom is at hand - Mk. 1:15      ◎ Whats the location we find ourselves counseling, its in the Kingdom of God.      ◎ Counseling with eternity in mind...

Episode Notes:  ◎ Not doing life with one another is all too often the case with most of the believers. ◎ Heb. 10:23-25 ◎ Are there believers in our life that have the right to examine our life; when we’re with counselee’s, we want to gather enough data to make sure we know what the reality is of our counselee’s relational church-life.  ◎ we need people in our lives who will speak to what we need...

Episode Notes:  The Lord’s Prayer  ◎ “And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard with their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. Pray then like this:  ◎ Our father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.  ◎ Give us this day...

Episode Notes:  ◎ The church is struggling in helping their congregations with spiritual disciplines. ◎ Helping our people how to study scripture, practice meditating, having a praying life, and the relational aspects of being a follower with accountable relationships.  ◎ Prayer quote, “To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.” Martin Luther.  ◎ Spir...

Gen Z Perspective on being Christian in the culture - their culture.  ◎ Our two sons, Dustin (18), Jaxson (13), give their perspective of being Christian in their context.  ◎ Their perspective on youth group night, their experience and thoughts on what’s talked about verses not talked about, what's missing from the youth context, etc. 

Episode Notes:  ◎ Growing up between both households felt like two different worlds. ◎ Having one strong side towards the faith and having the other side nonexistent was difficult.  ◎ In encouraging the church to help with families in blended families, I would focus on the youth and talk more about what our struggles are. 

Episode Notes:  Principles 11-14:  1. False gods. Principle: you are parenting a worshiper, so it's important to remember that what rules your child’s heart will control their behavior.  2. Control. Principle: the goal of parenting is not control of behavior, but rather heart and life change.  3. Rest. Principle: It only rests in God’s presence and grace that will make you a joyful and patient par...

Principles 6 - 10: 1. Process - Principle: you must be committed as a parent to long-view parenting because change is a process and not an event. 2. Lost - Principle: As a parent you’re not dealing just with bad behavior, but a condition that causes bad behavior.  3. Authority - Principle:  one of the foundational heart issues in the life of every child is authority. Teaching and modeling the prot...

Episode Notes:  First 5 Principles 1. Calling - Principle: Nothing is more important in your life than being one of God’s tools to form a human soul.  The Why.  2. Grace - Principle: God never calls you to a task without giving you what you need to do it. He never sends you without going with you. The How.       Lelek Quote “God’s grace is more committed to their transformation  and good than we w...

The Cultural and Moral Crisis:  Terrorist Identity  In their book, The Terrorist Identity, Michael P. Arena and Bruce Arrigo (Arrigo is a Professor of Crime, Law, and Society at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte) share their research on the social variables that influence what they call the terrorist identity.  They are considering this issue through the lens of Social Identity Theory...

Episode Notes:  What do I, as a Christian, believe about Self-Identity, and are there limits? Orders of Meaning (Johnson, Foundations of Soul Care, 2007).   The Biological Order:   “...the platform for all higher psychological functioning” (Johnson, p. 336).   Genetic determinants (i.e., height, eye color, male/female) Pre-natal development Neuronal maturation Neuronal structures Brain-structures...

Pete’s Pastoral Journey  ◎ Corban University Western Baptist College ◎ Being a pastor was about preaching, or so he thought.  ◎ Has been involved within a lot of ministry groups. ◎ Biblical Counseling ◎ the staff went through the equipped to counsel ◎ They also went through Self-Confrontation  ◎ Learning to apply the word/counseling to the hurt of man ◎ Using Self-Confrontation and equipped to cou...

Journey started as homework components that were created as counseling was happening.  Application questions Theological concepts that continued to come up regardless of the format Drawing out charts with those who were being counseled, turning that into charts that could be reproducible.  The counselor can actually use the book with those receiving biblical counseling - starting with the gospel a...

Episode Notes:  – Made to minister Regional Conference  W/Carl & Laura Chica from Salem Heights Church.  – The Unfortunate Reality of Oregon’s mental illness epidemic among children and adolesence; they have the highest  rate of suiscide attempts, depression, and anxiety in the country and don’t have the help they need to meet the need with licensed professional counselors.  – Most folks are h...

Episode Notes:  – Salem Heights, Lead Pastor, Justin Greene,   – Carl Chica, Pastor of pastoral care & counseling  – Bringing biblical counseling in their local church context, origin, and development of biblical counseling in their church; the impact in the local church and in the community at large.  – The ministry started to happen naturally; given the need and just starting counseling as t...

Episode Notes Moving from Planting (Metro Church) to an already established church (The Mount).  Creating an environment that allows people to struggle, starting from the platform.  Truth Renewed isn’t a replacement for the church regarding counseling, but an overflow of care.  Truth Renewed is a training center to help equip church leaders to become biblical counselors and launch biblical counsel...

Six Scriptural Truths that we need to focus on:  Gal. 1.10 - Trusting in the LORD. What we trust is where our fear comes from.    Faith is the willingness to look foolish.  Humility - it’s not about me, but the work that God is accomplishing through me.  James 3.13-18   - Wisdom from above, anything else is demonic.  Jn 20.21 - Peace in the Father’s Will.   Ezk. 2:  1-6: God’s will over man’s; we’...

Episode Notes:  As a podcast devoted to biblical truth for counseling & discipleship for the counselor and local church, we wanted to invite our friend, Ronnie Mills,  Pastor of Kingdom Chapel North Fort Worth Baptist Missionary Association of Texas help Ronnie launch out in their church plant  Kingdom Chapel is located Alliance Christian Academy  Biblical counseling training has greatly impro...

Episode Notes:  ◎ Scriptural examples: Jer. 17.5 - a powerful diagnostic  ◎ living a cursed life when we anchor our lives in the flesh of our selves and others; living life in our own way.  ◎ Ps. 1  ◎ a thriving fruitful tree even in a time of drought.  ◎ Where does he place the location of the problem?  ◎ How much change would be established if he changed his routines?  ◎ Does he understand his o...

Episode Notes:  ◎ Andy reports being angry all the time ◎ Things we would address with Andy based on the summary of his behavior and his own perspective on life ◎ what does he think is going on ◎ what does he really get angry about ◎ Does Andy have a victim mindset? ◎ Was he motivated by his dad’s approval? ◎ What is uninteresting about God ◎ Does he consider himself as a Christian? ◎ More discuss...

Episode Notes: Marks from Joseph Pipa's book - The LORD's Day ◎ Scriptures: Isa 58:13-14; The purpose of the Sabbath -  ◎ pg. 13; 17 (Rev. 1.10) Original Intent Gen. 2.1-3;  ◎ The market day of the Soul Exod. 20.9-11;  ◎ pg. 42; 44-45;  First Day Sabbath Heb. 4.9-10  Ex. 20:8-15: In the same way the 7th commandment speaks to the ordinance of marriage - the creational mandate - by not committing ad...

Episode Notes: ◎ Self-Care: how to avoid burnout. ◎ Going beyond our Sunday services and quite times to ensure we’re investing in our soul’s with God’s Word.   ◎ Psalm 73.26, not Psalm. 76.13, there is no verse 13.  ◎ 26 My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.  (Ps. 73.26) ◎ Establishing a rhythm of rest at least one day of the week.  ◎ Physicall...

Episode Notes: ◎ How would you dig into some of the particulars that they’re struggling with that affecting their sex life and ultimately, their marital life? ◎ how they’re day-to-day grind is affecting their marriage, sexually, emotionally, and intellectually. that they’ve become so horizontally focused that they’ve lost sight of the vertical importance to their horizontal. ◎ Defining the Why of...

Episode Notes: – Marital Case study  – Doing a thorough assessment of their sexual backgrounds, what they’ve experienced personally, what they’ve observed by their parents or familial context, etc.  – Are there emotional, physical, or psychological issues that are affecting the there sex life, frequency, duration, etc.  – What’s going on in their hearts?  – Be quicker to focus on the vertical than...

Episode Notes:  ◎ Self Forgiveness: Can you forgive yourself?  ◎ In order to have forgiveness, there needs to be an offender and a victim.  ◎ People who use this statement are really dealing with something, but this isn't a correct articulation or rendering of what one is working out.  ◎ 2 Cor. 7.8-10 is a text that does speak to grief; worldly grief vs. godly grief.   ◎ Godly grief produces life...