There are three goals in soul care. Number one, every believer in Christ needs a word of counsel from God regularly. It’s important to find His knowledge and wisdom in our lives especially if we are going to be instruments of His counsel for others. Number two, we ask God to equip us to counsel others His way. We all need to grow in this area because all Christians are called to give a word of counsel. Third, we want to notice the warnings about deceptive philosophies. The word of God has warnin...
Feb 08, 2022•26 min•Ep. 144
Have you noticed in our today's society, we always hear people ask before participating or helping, "What's in it for me?" We're living in a time where humanity loves itself. In this week's episode, join Pastor Jeff Christianson, and let's talk about selfishness and how do we start from loving ourselves to loving our neighbor. How do you begin to overcome fear and selfishness? Share your thoughts and join the discussion! ---- Want to be part of a growing family of like-minded biblical counselors...
Jan 31, 2022•24 min•Season 2Ep. 143
An important part of Biblical Counseling is the topic of “Conflict Resolution”, just learning about communication. As we grow in the Lord, as we are walking with Jesus, we are always learning to be better communicators. How do we accelerate that growth? In this podcast episode, Pastor Jeff Christianson shares how words are powerful and how the Bible can teach us how to communicate. Join the discussion and share your thoughts about this episode. --- PS: Is biblical counseling your calling? Learn ...
Jan 24, 2022•31 min•Season 2Ep. 142
Conflict resolution is an important part of your counseling ministry. When a conflict happens, there’s a temptation to respond inappropriately. We want to learn more to respond biblically. We know that we cannot produce a Godly life on our own. In terms of conflict, it must source with God above working upon us, in us and through us. Do you think you have developed a tendency to respond to conflict as described in the scriptures? Listen to the full episode and join the discussion in our communit...
Jan 18, 2022•32 min•Season 2Ep. 141
Does it ever seem like the only thing that will be appropriate that could possibly help is a perfect place to hide in safety? Do you ever feel like, if God doesn’t give strength, you’ll never have any? Sometimes life comes like a crushing and breaking of our hearts. The more that a person is crushed in spirit, the more the Lord can use them. You see, the Lord is never nearer than when the heart is broken. Listen to the full podcast episode as Pastor Jeff Christianson discusses the great truth th...
Jan 03, 2022•30 min•Season 2Ep. 140
Psalm 73:24 the psalmist confesses a great truth: “You will guide me with Your counsel, And afterward receive me to glory.” This is to be our confidence for time and eternity. Throughout time God will guide us with His counsel, if we let Him, if we look to Him, and if we trust Him to do so. And afterward, what will He do? As we’re walking along that path of His counsel, He’ll just receive us right into glory. He’ll just continue it in heaven forever. The Lord is our Counselor. Enrollment is Now ...
Dec 31, 2021•30 min•Season 2Ep. 139
Now Enrolling: BiblicalCounselingAcademy.com Biblical Counseling Can Be Described As: 1:1 Soul Care, Ministering to One Another It begins with the Lord as Counselor. The comprehensive, all-sufficient wisdom and knowledge of Jesus, our Wonderful Counselor. He is given to us for discipleship and sanctification, Through the life-giving, life-changing, life-liberating, life-sustaining truth of the word of God, By the full involvement of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth, Involving prayer from tru...
Dec 21, 2021•26 min•Season 2Ep. 138
This podcast episode talks about a pastor’s perspective on what it means to equip the saints for the work of the ministry. In these days that we are living in, we need an army of equipped and passionate biblical counselors committed to the authority and the sufficiency of the scripture. We begin with discussing the role of the pastor-teacher in Ephesians 4:12. Listen to the full episode as Pastor Jeff Christianson and Pastor Jeff Figgs dive deeper into this important verse. --- PS: The Biblical ...
Dec 13, 2021•29 min•Season 2Ep. 137
Join us for another Biblical Counseling Podcast with Jeff Christianson!
Dec 06, 2021•30 min•Season 2Ep. 136
Are you interested in training to counsel others God’s way? Listen to the latest podcast episode as Pastor Jeff Christianson discusses the three purposes of our training. Find out more about the Biblical Counseling Academy and stay tuned as enrollment opens for a course of study that will help you become certified. ---- PS: Are you interested in a series of passages from the Bible to help you gain a perspective in the midst of your trial? Click here 👉 https://www.jeffchristianson.com/trials...
Nov 29, 2021•30 min•Season 2Ep. 135
This is the last episode of our 5-part series about the Counselor Evaluation. Certified Counselors in training are evaluated by their professors to ensure the counselor has a biblical framework. In this series, Jeff Christianson and Bill Hines discuss the typical questions asked on a Counselors's Evaluation. ----- PS: A series of passages from the Bible to help you gain a perspective in the midst of your trial. https://www.jeffchristianson.com/trials
Nov 22, 2021•22 min•Season 2Ep. 134
This is part 4 of our 5-part series about the Counselor Evaluation. Certified Counselors in training are evaluated by their professors to ensure the counselor has a biblical framework. In this series, Jeff Christianson and Bill Hines discuss the typical questions asked on a Counselors's Evaluation. ----- PS: This self-paced tutorial will help you overcome trials, difficulties, and impossibilities God's Way! https://www.jeffchristianson.com/trials
Nov 15, 2021•31 min•Season 2Ep. 133
This is part 3 of our 5-part series about the Counselor Evaluation. Certified Counselors in training are evaluated by their professors to ensure the counselor has a biblical framework. In this series, Jeff Christianson and Bill Hines discuss the typical questions asked on a Counselors's Evaluation. ----- PS: This is a simple, yet powerful (Hebrews 4:12), time of learning from God's Word. https://www.jeffchristianson.com/trials
Nov 08, 2021•23 min•Season 2Ep. 132
This is part 2 of our 5-part series about the Counselor Evaluation. Certified Counselors in training are evaluated by their professors to ensure the counselor has a biblical framework. In this series, Jeff Christianson and Bill Hines discuss the typical questions asked on a Counselors's Evaluation. ----- PS: Have you ever gone through a trial and thought, “This difficulty is so strange” and “This is pointless” and “There is no way out of this.” Let’s talk about it. https://www.jeffchristianson.c...
Nov 01, 2021•22 min•Season 2Ep. 131
Certified Counselors in training are evaluated by their professors to ensure the counselor has a biblical framework. In this 5-part series, Jeff Christianson and Bill Hines discuss the typical questions asked on a Counselors's Evaluation. --- PS: Have you ever gone through a trial and thought, “This difficulty is so strange” and “This is pointless” and “There is no way out of this.” Let’s talk about it. https://www.jeffchristianson.com/trials
Oct 25, 2021•25 min•Season 2Ep. 130
In this episode, Pastor Jeff Christianson provides a review on the booklet by Lou Priolo, “Fear Breaking its Grip”. If you are possessed by fear that your body and soul seem powerless against it, if you are one that’s prone to fear, and if you’re a biblical counselor or church leader who recognizes that people have been paralyzed by this fear and they need biblical help God’s way, God has good news. God’s Holy Spirit is able to totally give you victory over fear. Learn how to control fear and di...
Oct 19, 2021•25 min•Season 2Ep. 129
“For my people have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters.” Jeremiah 2:13. God was grieved that His very people have turned aside from God’s living water and counsel for cisterns that could not hold water. A major threat that we face as biblical counselors and among the body of Christ is when internal God’s people are forsaking the Wonderful Counselor. It is not the psychological theories of the world, it’s the inside of the church. In this episode, we want to talk about walking away and ig...
Oct 11, 2021•20 min•Season 2Ep. 128
“…do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you might prove what is good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” Romans 12:1-2. Aren’t we surprised that the word of God is so sufficient? It is so relevant to the culture that we are living in the world today no matter what part of the world you live in. The Lord has made it clear that it is His will for you and for the people that you counsel. We need to be renewed in the very spirit of our minds. We ...
Oct 04, 2021•20 min•Season 2Ep. 127
“And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” Romans 12:2 This is how we help those that we disciple. When we care for a soul, we point them to the scripture. We need to be transformed. As biblical counselors, this is one passage that helps us understand these things. We should give it consistent attention when we live for Christ. Live and think God’s way. In this episode, Pas...
Sep 27, 2021•27 min•Season 2Ep. 126
Today, we continue to talk about our identity in Christ. In this episode, we will describe the opposite of who we are in Christ and what the world would describe as "self-esteem philosophy". See Mark 8:34-35 Listen to the full episode and leave a comment in our community section. ---- PS: A self-paced mini-tutorial. Overcoming Trials God's Way. https://www.jeffchristianson.com/startercourse
Sep 20, 2021•22 min•Season 2Ep. 125
What do people seek in life? Who are we in Christ? Who am I? Who am I really? What is my life supposed to be about? Until we know Jesus as Lord and Savior, we will be spiritually dead and under the control of Satan himself. Ephesians 2: 1-3 In this episode, Pastor Jeff Christianson shares his experiences and thoughts on accepting Jesus as our Lord and Savior. Listen to the full episode and leave your comments in the community section. --- PS: Overcome trials, difficulties and impossibilities God...
Sep 13, 2021•25 min•Season 2Ep. 124
Open your Bibles to (Ephesians 4:31-32 NKJV) 31. "Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. 32. And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you."
Sep 07, 2021•24 min•Season 2Ep. 123
We are living in the last days. Jesus said if you see these things begin to happen, look up. Your redemption is drawing near. Look to the heavens and be reminded. This is what you, as biblical counselors, remind those who are in the biblical counseling office. It is important that we have a strong understanding of our position in eschatology. Because of what we are seeing in our culture and our world today, we’re living in the signs of the times. There is a place for the end times events and esc...
Aug 30, 2021•24 min•Season 2Ep. 122
Worry is anticipating future suffering. However, it’s anticipating without anticipating the grace that God has promised to those who suffer. There’s always a remedy and biblical answers. In psychological theory, sometimes it is helpful to learn from our past but there is a point in time where need to press on and forget those things behind but Jesus said to His disciples, “Do not worry about tomorrow for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” Matthew 6:34. In tod...
Aug 23, 2021•22 min•Season 2Ep. 121
"For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit." Romans 8:2-4 "O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of deat...
Aug 17, 2021•29 min•Season 2Ep. 120
What is counseling with a gentle voice? In order to understand whether a person should receive confrontation or comfort, we must consider the characteristics, purposes, and uses of law and grace. We will see that the law of God is related to counseling by confrontation, while the grace of God is related to counseling by comfort. Join us as Pastor Jeff Christianson, and guest Jennie Christianson discuss counseling with a gentle voice! --- PS: Do you sense a calling to become a Biblical Counselor?...
Aug 02, 2021•27 min•Season 2Ep. 119
Do you feel that you are mature and have you trained yourself and has God trained you in effective spiritual discernment? In this podcast episode, Pastor Jeff talks about having the discernment and maturity to counsel others. More than just gifting alone, becoming an expert biblical counselor or an instrument of God’s counsel requires that you mature on a regular basis. People might be gifted and the Lord might use you. You would want that to grow because you are maturing spiritually so that you...
Jul 26, 2021•17 min•Season 2Ep. 118
“You are especially abounding the highest goodness, richly supplied with perfect knowledge, and competent to counsel one another.” Romans 15:14 In this podcast, we will talk about, “Are You Called to Counsel God’s Way?” based on Romans 15:14. Every single believer is to be involved in the counseling and discipleship ministry. Are YOU called to counsel? Find out in this new podcast from Pastor, Teacher, and Biblical Counselor Jeff Christianson! Join in the discussion and share your thoughts with ...
Jul 19, 2021•28 min•Season 2Ep. 117
There is a spiritual foe that comes after us and wants to destroy our life just like a lion would its prey. He desires to rip us off, wipe us out, and tear us down. This is spiritual warfare, and it is what often drives people to seek the counsel of biblical counselors. In this episode, Pastor Jeff Christianson talks to us about spiritual warfare and the counselor. Listen to the entire podcast and leave your comments in the community section. We would love to hear from you! --- PS: Learn more ab...
Jul 05, 2021•23 min•Season 2Ep. 116
What does the Bible say about anxiety? How do you self-counsel and help others who are facing despair? How do you assess if anxiety is sinful and how do you walk in life when anxiety strikes? In this podcast episode, Pastor Jeff Christianson is joined by Mark Baker of hopeforlifeonline.com as they talk about self-counsel and anxiety. “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than fo...
Jun 28, 2021•29 min•Season 2Ep. 115
