We are just 3 weeks away!! Are you interested in becoming more effective as a believer and how you minister to others around you? Would you be interested in hearing from some of the leading practitioners in the Church and Biblical Counseling? Speakers like Jonathan Holmes, Alasdair Groves, Tim Challies, and Julie Lowe to name […]
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Dear Friends, Ten Reasons to Attend the 2023 ABC National Conference Attendees will experience an uplifting time of encouragement as they engage in corporate worship to glorify God. Counselees will glean from a powerful Gospel-saturated approach to biblical care. This year’s conference features over 30 scholars and practitioners in biblical counseling eager to help equip […]
Halloween, Reformation Day, and Self-Identity
Author: Jeremy Lelek
Category: Blog, Counseling, Identity/Roles, The Gospel
A Christian’s identity is no pseudo-identity, as is the case with Halloween costumes, but is the deepest identity by which the believer is known by God. Today, we usher in October 31st, 2022—a day our culture recognizes as Halloween. It is a day that finds traditions spanning from the innocence of watching Shultz’s Great Pumpkin […]
Dear Friend, The Association of Biblical Counselors wants to extend you a special early-registration discount for our annual conference, Called to Counsel. The conference will be held April 27th-29th in Fort Worth, TX. Discount information for you has been included at the end of this email. Plenary speakers for this year include Tim Charlies, Jeremy Lelek, Jeremy Pierre […]
As a member of the Association of Biblical Counselors my prayer is that you are continually strengthened and encouraged in your ministry to others. Walking through the difficulties and hardships experienced by those God sends into our lives is one of the most amazing privileges to which we have been invited (Gal. 6:2). However, this […]
The past few years I have become quite excited about the idea of holistic biblical care. The idea really began to germinate in my heart when a definition of biblical counseling emerged from my dissertation (and reached consensus by top scholars in Christian soul care) that, in part, read as follows: “The biblical counselor does […]
Biblical counseling is a discipline that has always been dedicated to rich, theologically informed biblical care. Since the seminal work of the late Dr. Jay Adams who outlined a biblical counseling model that positioned itself within Christian counseling as uniquely biblical, the movement has continued to experience helpful developmental processes that have served to deepen and […]
ABC’s National Biblical Counseling Conference is a wonderful time of training, networking and fellowship, being reminded that we are all called to counsel. The Association of Biblical Counselor’s National Biblical Counseling Conference is coming up on April 27th-29th at Irving Bible Church in DFW. We are anticipating a wonderful time of training, networking and fellowship and are praying […]
Helping Others Find Peace this Christmas
Author: Jeremy Lelek
Category: Blog, Counseling, Family, Relationships, The Gospel
For as bright as the holidays may be, it is equally dark for many, giving us the opportunity to live out our divine call to counsel in helping others find peace this Christmas! The holiday season is again upon us ushering in a seemingly magical transformation of social life. Celebration is the theme of the […]
As biblical counselors, we need to be able to address the important issue of self-identity in a sensitive, wise and biblical manner. In our previous post, we were reminded that the identity of the Christian is one of union with Jesus; therefore, whatever is true of Jesus becomes true of the believer. In Christ, the […]