Latest Blog Posts

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  The Stewardship of Suffering

  God has a different view of thorns than we do. His ways are
  often paradoxical. He gives a barren couple a son and then tells the father to kill that beloved son on an
  altar. Strange, isn’t it?

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  Anger Part 3

  Before manifesting anger, we need to make sure we are asking the right questions and seeking to ensure that we have enough facts before deciding if anger is the right choice.

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  Anger Part 2

  When the reason or cause of the anger is all about you, when it is about how something has inconvenienced you; then that is a good sign that you are manifesting anger that is sinful.

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  Anger Part 1

  There is one such universal struggle that I would like to focus on in this series of blogs: sinful anger.

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  Ministering the Book of Lamentations

  God’s Word provides us with the testimony of a man who faced horrendous circumstances, yet experienced hope right in the midst of it all.

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  Sanctification on Steroids

  My previous education and training gave me worldly knowledge and learnedness, which now help me see that even with keen observations and brilliant minds, they lack a biblical view and biblical solutions.

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  God’s Redemptive Use of Trauma (Part 2)

  Sanctification, which refers to biblical change into the image of Jesus Christ, is obviously absent in CBT. Instead, holiness is exchanged for wholeness

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  Gods Redemptive Use of Trauma (Part 1)

  I was deployed to Iraq four times starting in early 2004, I served 44 months in an eight-year period. Combat tours like this will take a toll on both your physical body and your heart.

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  Growing in Gratitude

  As we recount, or receive, the details of life’s difficulties, giving thanks isn’t usually our first response, is it? In fact, as
  we listen, often God is missing from the narrative altogether. Life can be unbelievably painful.

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  Wrong More Often Than Right: The Problem of Psychological Diagnosis

  The entire premise of the DSM is built on standards. Those standards are meant to ensure conformity; they do not. What Dr. Hwang is arguing is that the diagnosis should not be seen as a rigid criterion like it would be if you went to an oncologist, but rather something else.

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  Biblical Counselling Training is Worth the Effort

  According to Paul, there is a need for the ministry of the Word on two fronts. There’s the public ministry of the Word (preaching). But there’s also the private, house to house ministry of the Word, which is what biblical counselling is all about. When we preach, we take the Word to people. When we counsel, we take people to the Word.

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  Welcome to the First Blog Post of Biblical Soul Care UK

  Thank you for joining us for the first blog post of Biblical Soul Care UK! As we embark on this journey together, I thought it would be helpful to start by explaining what biblical counselling is.