“Counseling by the Book” by authors Dr. John Babler and Nicolas Ellen presents a well composed edition of counselling techniques that is designed to enhance the background structure of the infant stages of psychoanalysis in comparison with spiritual biblical counseling techniques. Utilizing a step by step process, we are ushered from “past roots” of an era ranging from the early 1900s and covering a wide range of time as well as exploring through clinical research the trials and error theories of psychology pioneers. Through personnel testimonies, secular theories are exposed and vindicates, how the field of biblical counseling utilizing the “Word of God” both empowers and provides a more substantial foundation for secular belief in
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At best, my own personal testimony to Dr. Babler’s exposure of the usage of scripture as a means of counseling utilizing the truths of God’s word, has brought me to the point of self-actualization, whereby exposing my weakness and need for enhanced training in the area of Biblical
Counseling.
Through research and years of experience, Dr. Babler brings to the fore-front that many parishioners continue to have mixed views concerning the truths of God’s word. These ideologies understandably can have a perplexing impact on those seeking answers and solutions to daily problems through the infallible word of God. Foundationally it is apparent that the search for real truth is also a matter of trust at all levels. The exposure of man’s belief of where trust lies verses the truth that has been identified through biblical acknowledgment places man in a pressure cooker situation in where his faith ultimately lies.
The reception of God’s word ultimately lies within the heart, or respectively phrased as being a “heart issue”. When any ominous situation presents itself which causes unfavorable conditions to persist a hardening and un-penetrating effect of the heart is observed. This is where the apparent need for
At best, my own personal testimony to Dr. Babler’s exposure of the usage of scripture as a means of counseling utilizing the truths of God’s word, has brought me to the point of self-actualization, whereby exposing my weakness and need for enhanced training in the area of Biblical
Counseling.
Through research and years of experience, Dr. Babler brings to the fore-front that many parishioners continue to have mixed views concerning the truths of God’s word. These ideologies understandably can have a perplexing impact on those seeking answers and solutions to daily problems through the infallible word of God. Foundationally it is apparent that the search for real truth is also a matter of trust at all levels. The exposure of man’s belief of where trust lies verses the truth that has been identified through biblical acknowledgment places man in a pressure cooker situation in where his faith ultimately lies.
The reception of God’s word ultimately lies within the heart, or respectively phrased as being a “heart issue”. When any ominous situation presents itself which causes unfavorable conditions to persist a hardening and un-penetrating effect of the heart is observed. This is where the apparent need for