Biblical Counseling

This is our third in a series of articles on biblical counseling that formed us in SG. It’s by David Powlison and entitled “I’ll Never Get Over It” - Help for the Aggrieved.

This is our second in a series of articles that influenced our approach to biblical counseling. It is an article by Edward Welch titled, “Exalting Pain? Ignoring Pain? How Do We Counsel Those Who Suffer?”

Many of us remember the days of thinking carefully through our approach to counseling and the therapeutic movement. But many of us weren’t even around in those days. Over the next few months, I’m going to be posting some of the articles that were particularly formative for SG as we developed a Biblical approach to counseling God’s people. My hope is that reading these historically important articles will be a helpful reminder to many and helpful new thoughts for others…

When I answered the phone that evening, I heard my daughter-in-law’s trembling voice: “I just found out that my sister may have only twenty-four hours left to live.”…

We’re into the second week of the Great Hunkerdown of 2020.  Most pastors I know have spent the last week reworking their churches into some kind of new virtual reality.  But we all know that pastoral counseling needs are out there awaiting our attention…

Writing about events while they are happening is always a bit dangerous. It’s easy to encourage over-reactions and reinforce unhelpful panic in our hearts. That said, the COVID 19 coronavirus provides us with an opportunity to think about how we respond to anxiety…