Welcoming the Broken
How do you decide who to minister to? What are your criteria for those to whom you will reach out a helping hand? Does your church have an open hand toward people who have troubled pasts or are known...
View ArticleDeveloping Care and Counseling in Your Church Through IBCD and NANC...
Every weekend we highlight one of our free resources. This weekend’s audio message was originally given at the IBCD 2012 Summer Institute. Continue reading →
View ArticleJourney to Biblical Counseling: Paul Tautges Interviews Howard Eyrich
Pastor Paul Tautges at his Counseling One Another blog site has launched another excellent series. It’s called Journey to Biblical Counseling and in it he interviews various teachers, trainers,...
View ArticleWhat Constitutes Ministry Failure?
When did not having enough fun become a tragic failure? Some would say in the last 100-150 years. Neal Postman’s title Amusing Ourselves to Death almost immediately came to mind as I considered our...
View ArticleJourney to Biblical Counseling: Paul Tautges Interviews Deepak Reju
Pastor Paul Tautges at his Counseling One Another blog site has launched another excellent series. It’s called Journey to Biblical Counseling and in it he interviews various teachers, trainers,...
View ArticleThe “Basics” of the Church
You probably wouldn’t be reading this if you weren’t interested in biblical counseling. Most likely, you spend a lot of time trying to convince others that “it is the greatest thing since hotcakes” or...
View Article5 Ways God’s People Minister God’s Grace
How do God’s people minister God’s grace to each other? Let me suggest five categories. Continue reading →
View ArticleThe BCC Weekend Media Resource: Sexual Sin in the Ministry
During weekends we frequently highlight one of our free resources. Many times those are media resources—video or audio. But we also have hundreds of written resources on Christian living and biblical...
View ArticleBCC Weekend Media Resource: Ed Welch on Biblical Counseling and Changing Lives
This weekend we highlight a resource that first appeared on Desiring God Ministries and is used with permission. In this video, Desiring God interviews Ed Welch on what comes to mind when you hear the...
View ArticleMental Illness and the Church
In light of the passing of Matthew Warren, who took his life, and in light of much discussion in the Christian community about suicide and mental illness, we asked one of our BCC Council Board members,...
View ArticleWhat’s a Pastor to Do?
In Ephesians 4:11-16, the Apostle Paul highlights the Bible’s most powerful, focused vision statement for the Church. This passage offers God’s ministry description both for pastors and for every...
View ArticleIt Takes a Congregation
Sadly, in some churches, the people of God are second-class citizens when it comes to the work of the ministry. If a “lay” person makes a hospital visit, that’s okay, but we want to know, “where’s my...
View ArticleCounseling in Community: Equipping the Ground Troops
If the church in the western world is really going to move away from the over-professionalized, hyper-therapeutic view of counseling, we need to see counseling more as part of the discipleship...
View ArticleOn Equipping the Saints for Counseling Ministry
Several years into this cascade, I was studying through Ephesians and the passage from chapter 4 hit me like a freight train. In the face of this incredibly clear passage I had to admit that I was...
View ArticleTeaching Resources for Equipping Counselors
Many times when people write about equipping, they provide excellent ideas. But often I hear people say: “I love those ideas, but do you have any resources so I don’t have to reinvent the wheel? And,...
View ArticleEquipping a Stubborn Little Church
As a pastor or ministry leader, you may clearly recognize the need for church-wide discipleship, but convincing your people is another story. They may not intend to be stubborn; they just pursue their...
View ArticleWhy We Need to Equip and Be Equipped
Equipping believers and being equipped is an important aspect of biblical counseling. Primarily from the Ephesians 4, there are several corresponding ways equipping and being equipped correspond and...
View ArticleThe Church’s Mission and Psychiatric Disorders
Whether you are a church member or ministry leader you might find yourself filled with a sense of compassion when face with parishioners struggling with mental illness, but it is eclipsed by feelings...
View ArticleBiblical Counseling and Community Outreach
Our experience with community-based biblical counseling is that over time amazing things start to happen. Like a Japanese auto maker providing a community asset for a local church. All I can say is,...
View ArticleKeeping Equipping Simple in the Local Church
Equipping the Body of Christ to care for one another is a necessary, yet daunting task. A simple 3-part discipleship model of care made the task more manageable in one local church context. Continue...
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