Our True Environment
It is true that in this psalm the writer is one of God’s children, but what he says also holds true for the non—Christian (but in a disturbing rather than comforting way) : God is man’s Environment....
View ArticleThree Questions and Answers
The first question, “What is your problem?” will elicit an answer on one of three levels. They are: 1) the level of irritation (what ails him, what drove him to counseling); 2) the level of the...
View ArticleJay Adams, “One Flesh”
The expression “one flesh” has been widely misinterpreted as refering directly to the sexual union. Certainly, one factor included in the one-flesh concept is sexual union, but that is not its...
View ArticleJay Adams on Imitation
In 2 Thessalonians 3, Paul raised the question of discipline. There were Christians in Thessalonica who, because they had heard (wrongly) that the second coming of Christ was imminent, thought that...
View ArticleCounsel Before the Fall
Indeed, it is the very reason why remedial counseling exists (remember, man was made as a creature whose welfare was dependent—even before Adam’s sin—on God’s directive, guiding and preventive counsel....
View ArticleThe Biblical Counseling Movement After Adams.1
Quick take: The book is excellent. It does far more than chronicle the biblical counseling movement beginning with Adams (although it does that very well). The book provides an oversight as to some...
View ArticleThe Biblical Counseling Movement After Adams.2a
In Chapter 1, “The Birth of the Biblical Counseling Movement,” Lambert traces first the decline of pastoral counseling and the revitalization of counseling which took place with Jay Adams. However,...
View ArticleParallel texts on “envy” in Ecclesiastes 4:4 Part 2
The piel of the related verb provides a few additional examples of such an emotion: Pielקִנֵּא—(1) to be jealous (from the redness with which the face is suffused); followed by an acc. of the wife,...
View ArticleIntroduction to Biblical Counseling Week Two: Sin
The previous entry in this series may be found here:http://memoirandremains.wordpress.com/2014/01/02/introduction-to-biblical-counseling-overview/ The lecture which accompanies this lesson can be found...
View ArticleSome Comments on Ecclesiastes 5:1-7
The penalty for flippant vowing is ominous, to say the least (Joshua 9:18-20). Qohelth repeats his concerns about fools speaking to their own destruction and 10:12-13. Fredricks, 142 Our relationship...
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