Editor’s Note: Our April 2024 mini-series on the BCC Grace and Truth blog addresses the topic of panic attacks. In this second article, Lucy Ann Moll shares a biblical strategy for breaking the anxiety cycle in panic attacks. In other contributions to the series, Charlie Hodges shares five things to know about panic attacks, and Joy Forrest explains how biblical meditation can help trauma… Source ..read more

Editor’s Note: Our April 2024 mini-series on the BCC Grace and Truth blog addresses the topic of panic attacks. In this first article, Charlie Hodges shares five things to know about panic attacks. In other contributions to the series, Lucy Ann Moll shares a biblical strategy for breaking the anxiety cycle in panic attacks, and Joy Forrest explains how biblical meditation can help trauma survivors… Source ..read more

This episode of 15:14 is a rebroadcast of the interview we did with Pastor Dave Kirk regarding the Eastern Iowa Biblical Counseling Coalition. As part of the Build 133 series, we wanted you to hear about the great work they are doing again! Dave Kirk is the Pastor of Spiritual Formation at Grace Community Church in North Liberty, Iowa, where he has served since 2009. Before that, he was a pastor… Source ..read more

What should biblical counselors make of current trends in the larger counseling world? Should we ignore recent research because we have the truth about the world, or can we benefit from keeping up with the trends? Some historical context can help us as we think this through. Over the past ten years, we have been in dozens of churches offering our lay counseling training courses or events. Source ..read more

I don’t watch zombie movies, but there is something terrifying about the dead coming to life. What should be scarier, however, is the idea that we would give life to our idols. Why would we ever do that? While not intentional, we tend to do it through our misdirected meditation. Earlier, I wrote about how meditation isn’t missing but misdirected. Since meditation most simply means to think… Source ..read more

This summer, I was able to purchase a new vehicle for myself. The Toyota Camry I drove had been a very reliable friend for over the past ten years, but it was time for a change. As I researched the various options for the replacement, I found myself in the normal process of weighing the pros and cons. As I settled on a Honda, there wasn’t one particular reason for the decision. In fact… Source ..read more

Kelly Tarr is our guest on today’s episode of 15:14. Kelly is an ACBC counselor who leads the Smoky Mountain Biblical Counselor Network. For the last three years, she served as the women’s ministry director in her local church and co-led a mother and tween-daughter discipleship ministry. Kelly is married to Blane and is a mom to five kids, and hospitality is central to the Tarr family’s weekly… Source ..read more

Throughout the years, I have found that most of my counseling cases, if not all, eventually touch on one topic: personal identity. While the presenting issues may vary, my counselees struggle to answer one question lingering in their hearts constantly: who am I? Although the secular world has come up with relevant concepts (i.e., identity crisis) to explain this phenomenon, it never succeeded in… Source ..read more

Every counseling model seeks increased and more accurate self-knowledge as one of its aims. Everyone agrees that poor self-awareness and self-deception hinder personal growth. But not everyone agrees on what that self-knowledge looks like or how to attain it. Let’s look at two different models of increased self-knowledge. Positive psychologist Christina Wilson, PhD, writes… Source ..read more

Certain points of argument seem to be quite evergreen within the church. Does God choose us, or do we choose Him? How is the church’s government supposed to be structured? What’s going to happen at the end of all things? Some of these conversations are certainly more important than others. Another question that comes to the surface time and again is of significant importance. Is all sin the same… Source ..read more