163: The Lord as Counselor
What is counseling from a Biblical perspective? Listen to the latest podcast from Jeff Christianson, who explains how Jesus Christ is our Wonderful Counselor (Isa. 9:6). “In whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” (Col. 2:3). A relationship with Jesus Christ is the anchor of Biblical Counseling.
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162: Passion for Christ
Biblical counselors desire to unleash the power of God into the lives of their counselees. When we look at Scripture, we see so many promises of blessings and comfort found in Christ. Yet, we see many people stuck in bondage to sin, unable to break free from self-destructive patterns. How can counselors help their counselees experience victory rather than defeat?
In this week’s episode of the Biblical Counseling Podcast, Pastor Jeff Christianson and Jennie Christianson explain how a passion for Christ frees Christians from the power and reign of sin.
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161: Three Types of Conflicts
Everyone knows what a conflict looks like. Yelling, arguing, cold shoulders, furrowed eyebrows. Yet, Christians know that different conflicts have different shapes. As we approach Scripture, God instructs different approaches to certain conflicts rather than others. How can we discern between different conflicts we may see in the church?
In this week’s episode of the Biblical Counseling Podcast, Pastor Jeff Christianson and Jennie Christianson overview three types of conflict biblical counselors will face.
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160: Conflicts of Differentness
In this week’s episode of the Biblical Counseling Podcast, Pastor Jeff Christianson and Jennie Christianson continue their discussion on managing conflict from matters of differentness. We recognize that God made every individual as his or her own person. People are different. This reality can contribute to disagreements of style and personality. When we approach conflicts of differentness, hopefully each person involved has a willing heart to hear what the Scriptures have to say about these conflicts. We recognize that God has given us this command in Romans 12:18: “If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men.”
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159: Contending For The Faith
Contending for “The Faith” does not mean be contentious. But it means we are called to contend earnestly for the faith.
So, for the love of God, for the love of His truth, for the love of all who need His truth, let’s seek to guard and live and proclaim a pure biblical faith.
We invite you to listen to the full episode of the Biblical Counseling Podcast with Jeff Christianson.
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158: Eschatology and Discipleship
We invite you to listen to the full episode of the Biblical Counseling Podcast with Jeff Christianson.
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157: Biblical Counseling and the Devil
A lot of people wonder why life can become so difficult. What’s going on? The underlying cause of these struggles is because we are living life on a spiritual battlefield.
Pastor Jeff wants to bring to your attention that, as a biblical counselor, you need to remind everyone that you minister that we have a spiritual enemy. How do we proceed with ministering and discipleship and help others navigate against spiritual warfare? Listen to the full episode to learn more about “Biblical Counseling and the Devil”.
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156: Counseling with the Comfort of the Rapture
What does the end times have to do with biblical counseling? Everything is going according to plan. Because we have the scripture on our side to teach these things, we need to know what’s happening around us and compare it to the Word of God.
We invite you to listen to the full episode of the Biblical Counseling Podcast with Jeff Christianson. Know that when you get anxious, nervous, fearful, and worried they can see the scriptural timeline that God is in control.
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155: Interview with Dr. Howard Eyrich
“This conference is important for IABC as an organization because we have been spending the last two years restructuring, reorganizing, and relaunching the organization with the same theme we’ve always had, but in a refined and much better-organized fashion. We want our people to be there. We want them to get well acquainted with everybody that’s in leadership. We want them to get excited about what we’re doing. We want them to be trained further. And we want them to develop a continuity of fellowship among all the various members and counselors.” – Dr. Howard Eyrich
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154: The Balance of God’s Grace (Part 2)
Dr. Kevin Carson and Jeff Christianson dive deeper into understanding the balance of God’s grace in Part 2 of our interview series. Here Kevin suggested four cautions when offering others the same grace we (as biblical counselors) have received from God.
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