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This June!

The popular use of grounding techniques in secular therapy, Integrationism, and Clinically-Informed Counseling demands discernment.

So, Omri Miles is teaching a 4-part course throughout the month of June entitled Discerning Therapeutic Grounding.

Join Omri as he guides you through what God has to say about these practices by clicking the link below.

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Happy Memorial Day.

Our prayer today is that you would cast your cares and confessions upon the God who hears, forgives, exalts, redeems, and restores.

Here’s 2 passages to ground your hope:

Regarding your sin. The Apostle Paul wrote this. He imprisoned and murdered Christians before Jesus saved Him.

“The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost. But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life.” — 1 Timothy 1:15-16

Regarding your suffering. The Apostle Paul also wrote this. A transformed man, he was repeatedly beaten and imprisoned before ultimately being murdered for preaching the gospel. He also had beloved friends who suffered alongside him and risked their lives for him.

“For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.” — Romans 8:18

As you grieve your sins and sorrows today, do not underestimate Christ’s power, wisdom, and love.

Look to Him.

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Change doesn’t happen by accident.

You need a clear plan and targeted tools for real, lasting transformation.

That's why Biblical Counselors Society created Change Pathways — the most comprehensive biblical counseling resource available today.

Inside one platform, you’ll find two complementary counseling models: one for sin and one for suffering.

Change Pathways maps out the biblical process of change and includes targeted tools with key Scriptures, reflection questions, practical steps, and prayer guides for 143 life issues.

No more guessing. No more scattered resources.

Everything is organized, connected, and ready to use—right when you need it.

Change Pathways equips you to counsel with clarity, consistency, and confidence… so you can walk with people toward genuine, Christ-centered change.

Explore Change Pathways today.

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We are so excited to welcome you to 2 events taking place this week!

First, Dr. Daniel Berger will do a live Q&A on clinically-informed biblical counseling (CIBC), Thursday at 12PM CST.

This event is a follow up to Dr. Berger's critique of CIBC, and the entire time will be dedicated to your questions.

Then, on Saturday from 9AM-12PM CST — Omri Miles is teaching a 3-hour seminar entitled: Sin, Sickness, & Sanctification.

It will focus on the relationship between the body and the soul, and why the soul deserves primacy in counseling.

This seminar deals with matters of the utmost importance, and Miles is a faithful guide.

Don't miss it.

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I’m biased, but in addition to @ACBC training and accountability, I’d recommend pastors join @_BCSociety for collaboration with likeminded co-laborers in Christ, ongoing educational opportunities, and actionable biblical counseling tools.

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What an edifying week we have ahead of us at @_BCSociety!

Thank you @StatlerMatthew, @drbergerdr, and @omri12 for building up those working on the front lines of faithful biblical counseling ministry!

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This Thursday! A Live Q&A with Dr. Daniel Berger on his loving critique of clinically-informed biblical counseling.

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Biblical counseling tools for every phase of change. Try it free today.

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We add resources to Change Pathways every week—all aligned with specific phases of the change process, to ensure you provide targeted help to those in your care.

These give you timely support when guiding people through challenging life issues.

This week, we've added a worksheet for guiding others through the sorrow of aging and bodily decline .

To learn more about our biblical counseling models and resources, see the link in comments.

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Paul Tripp rightly insists that Christians must avoid two extremes: the secular tendency to biologize everything, and the church’s tendency to spiritualize everything.

So far, so good.

No biblical counselor disagrees with this.

But, the examples he uses to illustrate his point quietly undermine the very framework he claims to defend, and given his influence, this matters enormously.

The Anxiety Problem

Tripp claims that an antibiotic can cause anxiety, but then immediately clarifies this isn’t “a failure of hope in God.”

He intends this as a helpful distinction, but it concedes too much.

Scripture treats anxiety as a condition of the heart (Proverbs 12:25, Philippians 4:6).

What medication can produce is physiological nervousness or arousal — a real body phenomenon that may aggravate or interact with the heart’s condition, but cannot generate anxiety in the biblical sense.

By calling this medication-induced state “anxiety,” Tripp inadvertently relocates a biblical heart category into the body, doing precisely what he condemns secular culture for doing.

The Brain Injury Problem

Tripp’s limbic example is more serious.

He presents a man whose brain injury produced rage, and whose medication resolved it, as though the causal chain runs cleanly from brain to behavior to cure.

But traditional biblical counseling has argued carefully that organic damage can remove a person’s capacity to mask or govern what is already in the heart; it does not manufacture sinful anger from neutral tissue.

The classic illustration is the dementia patient who begins shouting sexual obscenities: his dementia didn’t create his lust; it stripped away his ability to suppress it.

Tripp’s account, by contrast, implies the brain produced the sin. Medication fixed the brain, and the sin disappeared.

That is a materialist causal account, precisely what his tradition has labored to resist!

Why This Is Not a Minor Error

If the brain can cause sinful behavior, then:

- Moral responsibility is meaningfully eroded

- Sanctification becomes partly a pharmacological project

- The sufficiency of Scripture for addressing the heart is quietly hollowed out

These are not peripheral issues.

They are the precise fault lines along which biblical counseling has distinguished itself from integrationist approaches for decades.

Tripp knows this territory.

That makes the imprecision harder to excuse.

His basic instinct—that the body is real, that the fall affected it, and that Christians must not reduce everything to willful sin—is correct and important.

But, the way he colors in those lines concedes the very ground he claims to be defending.

For a communicator of his reach and influence, this is a serious problem.

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Emails like this make it all worth it.

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I cannot thank you enough!

For years of counseling (I have been certified since NANC days-2007) I have done my best but felt scattered and fragmented.

I have prayed that the LORD would help me be a more focused and effective biblical counselor, and with these amazing materials at my fingertips, I now have that prayer answered.

I retired in 2021 and then in 2022 started working with Julie Ganschow and her fabulous team.

But, I floundered wondering if my senior citizen brain could keep track of all the many resources available and even keep track of which portions of Scripture would be most effective--not anymore! THANK YOU SO MUCH.

I can now evaluate more carefully whether the counselee is suffering primarily and needs a GRACE Pathways approach or Sinning primarily and needs A GOSPEL Pathways approach.

I think I have known this in the past but was not a focused as I wanted.

Praising the LORD for you and your excellent work.

— Cindy

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From Craving to Contentment—A GOSPEL Pathway.

All of our resources for sin issues are aligned with each phase of this process to ensure you are equipped to counsel by objective instead of an arbitrary number of sessions.

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From Craving to Contentment—A GOSPEL Pathway.

All of our resources for sin issues are aligned with each phase of this process to ensure you are equipped to counsel by objective instead of an arbitrary number of sessions.

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Emails like this make it all worth it.

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I cannot thank you enough!

For years of counseling (I have been certified since NANC days-2007) I have done my best but felt scattered and fragmented.

I have prayed that the LORD would help me be a more focused and effective biblical counselor, and with these amazing materials at my fingertips, I now have that prayer answered.

I retired in 2021 and then in 2022 started working with Julie Ganschow and her fabulous team.

But, I floundered wondering if my senior citizen brain could keep track of all the many resources available and even keep track of which portions of Scripture would be most effective--not anymore! THANK YOU SO MUCH.

I can now evaluate more carefully whether the counselee is suffering primarily and needs a GRACE Pathways approach or Sinning primarily and needs A GOSPEL Pathways approach.

I think I have known this in the past but was not a focused as I wanted.

Praising the LORD for you and your excellent work.

— Cindy

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Next week, Dr. Jon Okinaga will help us think carefully about a biblical approach to addictions.

Join at link in comments.

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