Truth in Love

Truth in Love

A podcast providing biblical solutions for the problems people face. This podcast is a resource from the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors. For more information about ACBC visit biblicalcounseling.com.

Episodes

October 27, 2025 16 mins

1. Can you explain the difference between shame and guilt?

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1. Who was Van Til?

2. What was Van Til's presuppositional approach to apologetics?

3. How would Van Til lay out the distingush between what human beings can observe and know?

4. How does a fallen human being use their mind?

5. What is the connection from Van Til to David Powlison?

6. What are ways Van Til influenced the biblical counseling movement through David Powlison?

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1. Who was Thomas Watson?

2. What stands out about Thomas Watson?

3. What is a Puritan?

4. Why is Watson such an important read for a biblical counselor?

5. What does Watson/Puritans have to lend help to a biblical counselor?

6. Where do we begin reading Watson?

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1. Who are the Puritans?

2. What is unique about this particular set of books?

3. Why should biblical counselors think of this series as an essential read and resource?

4. How should we approach the series? What should we read first?

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1. Why did the Puritans focus on this so much?

2. How do the Puritans distinguish between categories of temptation?

3. What role does self-knowledge play in resisting temptation?

4. How did the Puritans help give us a sense of moving toward the remedy of temptation?

5. What are some examples of remedies the Puritans gave us for temptation?

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1. Who was John Newton and why should we look to him for counseling?

2. How is John Newton helpful as we think about biblical counseling?

3. What are the factors that informed John Newton's pastoral ministry?

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1. What are some of the practical things we can learn from the puritans today?

2. How are the puritans different from the reformers?

3. How to begin reading the puritans?

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1. What do you think is the best Scripture passage or two to help counselors combat someone when they say being clinically informed or trauma informed is better than just the Bible?

2. What are percieved strengths or pitfalls to healing memories theory applied to traumatic experiences?

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1. What are we talking about with AI and counseling?

2. How are these chat bots being used in therapy?

3. How should we think about AI therapy or counseling?

4. How is the church a better place to seek help?

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1. How did the Puritans think of keeping and cultivating the heart?

2. How are the spiritual disciplines are a means of grace for us?

3. What are the spiritual disciplines that have helped you the most?

4. What are some books from the puritans that you would recommend on this?

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1. What is the importance of the ministry of the Word and the Church in biblical counseling?

2. What are the means of grace?

3. What are some examples of how these are significant in the life of the believer?

4. How do we think about justification in relation to counseling?

5. How do we think about the Lord's Supper in relation to counseling?

6. How do we implement these concepts in the ...

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1. How have you partnered with the local church in this endeavor?

2. What are some of the topics in your classes and how do you determine those?

3. How do you face issues of discipline?

4. How do you start to engae when you notice an issue?

5. How does biblical counseling help your school operate in a biblical fashion?

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1. How did Kings Academy begin?

2. How to develop a culture of biblical counseling in the school?

3. How do you train staff in biblical counseling?

4. How do you structure your classes to support or teach biblical counseling?

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1. How do we think through the recent use of the term of integration?

2. How to think in categories of essential elements and incidental circumstances in counsleing?

3. What are some of the essential elements?

4. What are some elements that would fundamentally alter biblical counseling?

5. How do we acknowledge the incidental circumastantial elements of biblical counseling?

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1. Why is it important to understand God's nature before we counsel?

2. How does God's independence shape our counseling relationships?

3. What does this look like as we shepherd others with God's Word?

4. What does success look like in counseling?

5. How do we guard against pitfalls in ministering the truth of Scripture?

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1. What is psychology and what does it claim to be and do.

2. What is the definition of emprircism?

3. What are some problems that arrise when applying this definition to humanity?

4. What are some other problems when dealing with empiricism?

5. How is empiricism utilized in the DSM?

6. How should we discern as we read psychological information?

7. Final thoughts on opportunity cost?

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July 7, 2025 27 mins

How do we handle despair biblically?

Biblical hope in all affliction from 2 Corinthians 1.

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1. God glorifying change as a key tenet of biblical counseling.

2. Where do we get the concept that sanctification is the primary aim in biblical counseling?

3. What texts come to mind when thinking about not adding to God's Word in counseling?

4. Why do we see sanctification as such an important issue when considering helping others in counseling?

5. Where do we see people substituting ...

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1. Why should counselors be careful when sharing the Gospel?

2. What are the potential pitfalls?

3. How can our mishandling of the Gospel harm someone?

4. How can counselors avoid some of these pitfalls?

5. What resources have helped you?

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  1. What is a biblical understanding of discontentment?

  2. What are common factors that contribute to discontentment?

  3. What are the dangers of not dealing with discontentment biblically?

  4. What are good resources on discontentment?

  5. How can the counselor or pastor think through discontentment?

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