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  • Why You Should Read Dangerous Calling

    Thanks to Mathew Sims over at Grace For Sinners, I was able to get a free copy of Dangerous Calling in exchange for a guest post. Yesterday I was able to finish it. Talk about a reality check. Basically, everyone who is in seminary, been to seminary, or thinking about seminary probably ought to read this book.…

  • Heart of The Matter: Daily Reflections for Changing Hearts and Lives

    CCEF Faculty, Heart of The Matter: Daily Reflections for Changing Hearts and Lives. Greensboro, NC: New Growth Press, October, 2012. 416 pp. Hardcover, $19.99. Buy it: Amazon | Westminster Read an excerpt Visit the publisher’s page Thanks to New Growth Press for the review copy! Typically, I’m not a big fan of devotionals. Not because I don’t like them, they’re just not the type of book that I’m…

  • Equipping Counselors For Your Church: Conclusion

    [You’re finishing this review series because Bob Kellemen at RPM Ministries sent me a review copy of Equipping Counselors For Your Church!] Wednesday, we looked at the first two “laps” in Bob’s book, Envisioning and Enlisting. Yesterday, we covered laps 3 and 4, Equipping and Empowering. Today, I just have some summary thoughts on the book as a whole.…

  • Equipping Counselors For Your Church: Equipping and Empowering

    Yesterday, we started into Equipping Counselors For Your Church by looking at the opening two sections, Envisioning and Enlisting. In Bob’s race metaphor, those are the first two laps, so today we’ll look at the final two: Equipping and Empowering. This is more my particular niche, so after the good reminders from Bob about the need to develop…

  • Equipping Counselors For Your Church: Envisioning and Enlisting

    A while back, Bob Kellemen, who heads up RPM Ministries, sent me a copy of his latest book Equipping Counselors For Your Church. Monday’s review of The Biblical Counseling Movement was a kind of setup for this mini-series since Bob stands in line with the biblical counseling movement and is the Executive Director for the Biblical Counseling Coalition. This…

  • The Biblical Counseling Movement: History and Context

    On first glance, I imagine many readers would find this book either immediately attractive or immediately repulsive. The reasons for this are either you’re a) interested in biblical counseling so the title grabs you or b) you’ve had a bad experience with someone promoting “nouthetic” counseling and decided you wanted to have nothing to do…

  • Addiction and Virtue: Beyond the Models of Disease and Choice

    In Addiction and Virtue: Beyond the Models of Disease and Choice, professor of philosophy Kent Dunnington takes the traditional ways of thinking about addiction and flips the paradigm. That probably tells you little about what the book really talks about, but as the subtitle bears out, people typically conceive of addictions as either the result…

  • What Do You Think of Me? Why Do I Care?

    [A review copy of this book was provided by New Growth Press and The B&B Media Group] A little over 8 years ago, I read a book that was a total game changer. It was for my last class of the second year program at Word of Life Bible Institute, and the book was When…

  • Adventures in Psychology

    This series was actually started a while ago and then had to be abandoned to give its conceptual territory in my thinking while I focused on finishing my last year of seminary. With that completed now, I am planning to resume this series and work through a few books, specifically Psychology and Christianity: Five Views. The…

  • Redemption: Freed By Jesus From The Idols We Worship and The Wounds We Carry

    Mike Wilkerson is a pastor at Mars Hill Church in Seattle. From the sources he uses, you can easily see that Mike is passionate about using gospel-based counseling in the local church. This book grew out of Mars Hill’s Redemption Group Ministry and the curriculum that they used in those groups. Overview I already mentioned…