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Scripture doesn’t treat spiritual warfare as a rare experience reserved for a peculiar few, but as an ordinary, everyday reality for every Christian.
Read Dr. Keith Evans’ full article on the reality of spiritual warfare for believers: biblicalcounselingcoalition.…
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“Pastors cannot build God’s kingdom, then, without His tools. God forbade the Israelites from lifting a tool on His altar so they would not pollute it with human workmanship (Ex. 20:25). As soon as men bring their man-made ideas into ministry, they have polluted the work of God. Only God can build His kingdom. If man builds it, then the kingdom is man’s and not God’s. Not only are pastors helpless without the Holy Spirit, but the Holy Spirit’s strength is necessary for a pastor to persevere amid the difficulties of ministry. In particular, a pastor needs the Spirit’s indwelling, influence, and empowerment.”
Thriving in Lifelong Ministry:
Cultivating Spiritual and Pastoral Vitality for the Long Haul by Joel R. Beeke
Charles Hodges retweeted
This may come as a shock to many:
“Dr. Charles Hodges @runningdoc , a physician and biblical counselor, warns, "Not every study will have a good design or be well conducted, and the researcher's biases can sometimes influence the interpretation of data."”
Charles Hodges retweeted
When life's demands leave us weary, how can we discern what matters most?
In this article, Joe Keller offers three Scripture-centered reminders to help us navigate weariness with wisdom, faithfulness, and an eternal perspective.
Read the article: ibcd.org/wise-counsel-for-th…
Charles Hodges retweeted
We are at the phase of discourse in the biblical counseling conversation where everyone I don't like is a Fundy.
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To be clear, Van Til’s doctrine of common grace allows that unbelievers may discover much that is true and useful. But this is not the same as granting that unbelieving disciplines may supply the church with governing categories or methods for ministerial care—frameworks and methods which are never philosophically neutral. — @DrKeithAEvans
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"What we are witnessing in the field of biblical counseling today is not a true Reformation but, as Van Til perhaps would have seen it, a counter-reformation. It is presented as if it were the consistent outworking
of Reformed theology, but in reality it is of a different order. This modern reformation risks drifting toward epistemological instincts more reminiscent of Trent or Kant than of a consistently Calvinian epistemology. It is presented as a reformation, a move “forward,” yet it returns toward an epistemology of autonomous human reason." — @DrKeithAEvans
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By studying King David’s fall and restoration, Jim Newheiser offers crucial insights into how a godly man can fail in midlife and the heart problems behind it.
Read the full article: biblicalcounselingcoalition.…
ALT A quote in blue text reads: "No one is immune to the dangers of spiritual complacency... The question is not whether we have been faithful in the past, but whether we are remaining faithful today." The quote is attributed to Jim Newheiser below. The design includes red horizontal lines above and below the text, with quotes flanking the lines. The background is light blue.
Charles Hodges retweeted
Interesting watching the "trauma-informed" retreat from their previous dogmatic positions. The move from "The Body Keeps The Score" to "The Body Keeps the Score sort of"
While I commend the retreat from lies, the inconsistency requires further reformation. Take for example the attached article.
This article wants to say two things at once:
1. VDK was directionally helpful with his framework.
2. But VDK's framework was materially false at key points.
In point 1:
Claes says VDK helped people see that trauma affects the body. (Sadly, we know that is not what VDK was claiming to do, nor what people believe now about trauma).
In point 2: She rightly points out the Frontiers article that the body does not store trauma. But then moves to include "body work" as a help to counseling trauma.
These blaring errors in addition to the continued category mistakes show that much work is still to be done in undoing VDK's errors.
Charles Hodges retweeted
Interesting watching the "trauma-informed" retreat from their previous dogmatic positions. The move from "The Body Keeps The Score" to "The Body Keeps the Score sort of"
While I commend the retreat from lies, the inconsistency requires further reformation. Take for example the attached article.
This article wants to say two things at once:
1. VDK was directionally helpful with his framework.
2. But VDK's framework was materially false at key points.
In point 1:
Claes says VDK helped people see that trauma affects the body. (Sadly, we know that is not what VDK was claiming to do, nor what people believe now about trauma).
In point 2: She rightly points out the Frontiers article that the body does not store trauma. But then moves to include "body work" as a help to counseling trauma.
These blaring errors in addition to the continued category mistakes show that much work is still to be done in undoing VDK's errors.
Charles Hodges retweeted
The clearest inconsistency in the TGC article is here: Claes says the new study “overturns” Van der Kolk’s conclusions by putting active cognitive and interpretive processes at the center of trauma response. But then she still concludes that body-based care remains important and “entirely consistent” with spiritual formation. That could be true in a modest sense: bodies matter, calming practices can help, sleep matters, breath matters, exercise matters. But if “body work” means therapies built on the assumption that trauma is stored in the body and must be released from the body, then the evidential basis just collapsed.
Charles Hodges retweeted
To be commended though is the clear reference to "the suffer is not at the mercy of the nervous system" I am thankful for that corrective.
Charles Hodges retweeted
The cycle is on repeat… the secular world retreated from TBKTS a while ago… but the church, in her eagerness to stay relevant, chased TBKS mentality when it was popular and is playing catch up again on the debunking of it.
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True, I think even more, those who refused the presuppositions of TBKS were called all manner of names and accused of doing harm.
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Lots of people offended that a comedian called out women’s fondness for immodest gym attire, but ladies, be honest.
If you saw men wearing as little clothing in public as many women do, you’d peg them as perverts real quick.
And you’d be right.
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How can we compassionately care for those wounded within the church?
Tim St. John discusses the complexities of church hurt, the importance of patient listening, and practical ways to help sufferers find hope in Christ.
Listen: ibcd.org/church-hurt-tim-st-…
