Our Emotional Well-being Comes from a Relationship With God

Our Emotional Well-being Comes from a Relationship with God by Scott Stephens, Pastor of Biblical Counseling Because we were created in the image of God, by nature we were created as a rational and responsible beings. Because of this, there is an innate sense for the need for some type of creed or guide to […]

Counseling the Deceptive Counselee

Counseling the Deceptive Counselee by Scott Stephens, Pastor of Biblical Counseling I received a phone call the other day from Sue, a former counselee. Sue was devastated as she tearfully said, “Bob just admitted to me that he is not a believer… He told me that he said whatever I wanted to hear so I […]

Returning Counseling to the Church, part 2

Returning Counseling to the Church, Part Two by Scott Stephens, Pastor of Biblical Counseling The sufficiency of Scripture means that the Bible contains all the words of God that He intended his people to have at each stage of redemptive history, and that it now contains all of the words of God we need for […]

Returning Counseling to the Church

Returning Counseling to the Church by Scott Stephens, Pastor of Biblical Counseling The Sufficiency of the Scriptures-Part 1 In his book The Biblical Counseling Movement After Adams, Heath Lambert explains that “’counseling’ is the word our culture uses to describe what happens when people with questions, problems, and trouble have a conversation with someone they think has […]

A Perspective on Biblical Counseling

A Perspective on Biblical Counseling by Scott Stephens, Pastor of Biblical Counseling I was heartbroken when a pastor told me, “The truth is that we are unable to provide the professional care that many of our members need.” Now, this wasn’t a bi-vocational pastor of a small church. This was a seasoned pastor—one of ten—in […]

Truth in Counseling

What is the “Truth” We Should Be Counseling Our Congregations with? by Scott Stephens, Pastor of Biblical Counseling The concept that “all truth is God’s truth” is used by many well-meaning Christians who have determined that God’s truth can be empirically discovered in general revelation and applied to the sciences; specifically, in the realm of […]