Episode Notes: "We, in biblical counseling, we do acknowledge that our story shapes our heart. Our story does have a shaping impact on the struggles that we might be dealing with." -Jeremy Lelek, Speak The Truth, EP. 51 Unpacking Diagnoses: Paranoid Personality Disorder (importance of data gathering - context added) DSM Criteria: Pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of others such that their motives are interpreted as malevolent, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts...
Mar 29, 2020•19 min•Ep. 51
Episode Notes: DSM-IV Criteria for “Personality Disorder (general)” Enduring pattern of inner experience or behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of the individual’s culture including the areas of • Cognition • Affectivity • Interpersonal functioning • Impulsive control The pattern is enduring and inflexible as well as pervasive across a broad range of personal and social situations Enduring pattern leads to clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, o...
Mar 23, 2020•23 min•Ep. 50
Episode Notes DSM CRITERIA Hyperactivity • Often fidgets with hands or feet or squirms in seat. • Often leaves seat in classroom or in other situations in which remaining seated is expected. • Often runs about or climbs excessively in situations in which it is inappropriate • Often has difficulty playing or engaging in leisure activities quietly • Is often “on the go” or often acts as if “driven by a motor” • Often talks excessively Impulsivity • Often blurts out answers before questions have be...
Mar 16, 2020•27 min•Ep. 49
Psychiatric explanation of ADHD by DSM-IV-TR Inattention (6 symptoms that persisted at least six months) Often fails to give close attention to details or makes careless mistakes in schoolwork, or other activities • Often has difficulty sustaining attention in tasks or play activities • Often does not seem to listen when spoken to directly • Often does not follow through with instructions, and fails to finish school work, chores, or duties in the workplace • Often has difficulty organizing tasks...
Mar 09, 2020•25 min•Ep. 48
DSM-IV Criteria for DSM-IV-TR Criteria for “Manic Episode” “Manic Episode” 1. A distinct period of abnormally and persistently elevated, expansive, or irritable mood, lasting at least 1 week. 2. Inflated self-esteem or grandiosity 3. More talkative than usual or pressures to keep talking. 4. Flight of ideas or subjective experience that thoughts are racing. 5. Distractibility 6. Increase in goal-directed activity (either socially, at work or school, or sexual activity). 7. Excessive involvement ...
Mar 02, 2020•26 min•Ep. 47
Episode Notes DSM-IV Criteria for DSM-IV-TR Criteria for “Manic Episode” “Major Depressive Episode” 1. Depressed mood most of the day, nearly every day, as indicated by either subjective report (feels sad or empty) or observations made by others. 2. Markedly diminished interest or pleasure in all, or almost all, activities most of the day, nearly every day. 3. Significant weight loss when not dieting or substantial weight gain. 4. Insomnia or hypersomnia nearly every day. 5. Fatigue or loss of e...
Feb 24, 2020•33 min•Ep. 46
The disclaimer is to help pastors, biblical counselors, and lay leaders to engage the culture with this material. – Understanding the DSM and its terms – Not feeling intimidated by labels – Diagnostic damnation - the label becomes the person’s identity – Everyone has a worldview, a lense, a conceptual lens in which they view everything – Secular psychology pushes, what does my theory say - so our theory informs our methodology – The DSM is the bible of Psychiatry – when we encounter these labels...
Feb 17, 2020•23 min•Ep. 45
Episode Notes: ◎ There will be 4 pre-conference sessions ◎ John Henderson (Author Of The Equipped To Counsel Curriculum) ◎ Elise Fitzpatrick - Author of numerous books ◎ Lee Lewis ◎ Panel Discussion ◎ Conference Theme ◎ The Kingdom is at hand - Mk. 1:15 ◎ Whats the location we find ourselves counseling, its in the Kingdom of God. ◎ Counseling with eternity in mind. ◎ There are 7 Tracks and each track has 8 sessions ◎ Introduction To Biblical Counsleing ◎ Addictions ◎ Anxiety ◎ Depression ◎ Domes...
Feb 10, 2020•24 min•Ep. 44
Episode Notes: ◎ Not doing life with one another is all too often the case with most of the believers. ◎ Heb. 10:23-25 ◎ Are there believers in our life that have the right to examine our life; when we’re with counselee’s, we want to gather enough data to make sure we know what the reality is of our counselee’s relational church-life. ◎ we need people in our lives who will speak to what we need to hear rather than what we want to hear. ◎ we need to encourage our counselee’s to find someone who c...
Feb 03, 2020•25 min•Ep. 43
Episode Notes: The Lord’s Prayer ◎ “And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard with their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. Pray then like this: ◎ Our father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. ◎ Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. ◎ And lead us not into...
Jan 27, 2020•24 min•Ep. 42
Episode Notes: ◎ The church is struggling in helping their congregations with spiritual disciplines. ◎ Helping our people how to study scripture, practice meditating, having a praying life, and the relational aspects of being a follower with accountable relationships. ◎ Prayer quote, “To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.” Martin Luther. ◎ Spiritual disciplines grow from duty, as a discipline, to a matter of devotion…..to the point where you don...
Jan 20, 2020•22 min•Ep. 41
Gen Z Perspective on being Christian in the culture - their culture. ◎ Our two sons, Dustin (18), Jaxson (13), give their perspective of being Christian in their context. ◎ Their perspective on youth group night, their experience and thoughts on what’s talked about verses not talked about, what's missing from the youth context, etc.
Jan 14, 2020•24 min•Ep. 40
Episode Notes: ◎ Growing up between both households felt like two different worlds. ◎ Having one strong side towards the faith and having the other side nonexistent was difficult. ◎ In encouraging the church to help with families in blended families, I would focus on the youth and talk more about what our struggles are.
Jan 06, 2020•24 min•Ep. 39
Episode Notes: Principles 11-14: 1. False gods. Principle: you are parenting a worshiper, so it's important to remember that what rules your child’s heart will control their behavior. 2. Control. Principle: the goal of parenting is not control of behavior, but rather heart and life change. 3. Rest. Principle: It only rests in God’s presence and grace that will make you a joyful and patient parent. 4. Mercy. Principle: No parent gives mercy better than one who is convinced that they desperately n...
Dec 16, 2019•18 min•Ep. 38
Principles 6 - 10: 1. Process - Principle: you must be committed as a parent to long-view parenting because change is a process and not an event. 2. Lost - Principle: As a parent you’re not dealing just with bad behavior, but a condition that causes bad behavior. 3. Authority - Principle: one of the foundational heart issues in the life of every child is authority. Teaching and modeling the protective beauty of authority is one of the foundations of good parenting. 4. Foolishness - Principle: th...
Dec 10, 2019•35 min•Ep. 37
Episode Notes: First 5 Principles 1. Calling - Principle: Nothing is more important in your life than being one of God’s tools to form a human soul. The Why. 2. Grace - Principle: God never calls you to a task without giving you what you need to do it. He never sends you without going with you. The How. Lelek Quote “God’s grace is more committed to their transformation and good than we will ever be.” 3. Law - Principle: Your children need God’s law, but you cannot ask the law to do what only gra...
Dec 02, 2019•27 min•Ep. 36
The Cultural and Moral Crisis: Terrorist Identity In their book, The Terrorist Identity, Michael P. Arena and Bruce Arrigo (Arrigo is a Professor of Crime, Law, and Society at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte) share their research on the social variables that influence what they call the terrorist identity. They are considering this issue through the lens of Social Identity Theory (a theory that only considers the Biological and Psychosocial strata). Regarding what they refer to as ...
Nov 25, 2019•45 min•Ep. 35
Episode Notes: What do I, as a Christian, believe about Self-Identity, and are there limits? Orders of Meaning (Johnson, Foundations of Soul Care, 2007). The Biological Order: “...the platform for all higher psychological functioning” (Johnson, p. 336). Genetic determinants (i.e., height, eye color, male/female) Pre-natal development Neuronal maturation Neuronal structures Brain-structures The Psychosocial Order: By psychosocial order, we are referring to the immaterial dynamic structures that o...
Nov 18, 2019•28 min•Ep. 34
Pete’s Pastoral Journey ◎ Corban University Western Baptist College ◎ Being a pastor was about preaching, or so he thought. ◎ Has been involved within a lot of ministry groups. ◎ Biblical Counseling ◎ the staff went through the equipped to counsel ◎ They also went through Self-Confrontation ◎ Learning to apply the word/counseling to the hurt of man ◎ Using Self-Confrontation and equipped to counsel as resources - systematically, and practically ◎ Biblical Counseling has really helped him as a pa...
Nov 11, 2019•20 min•Ep. 33
Journey started as homework components that were created as counseling was happening. Application questions Theological concepts that continued to come up regardless of the format Drawing out charts with those who were being counseled, turning that into charts that could be reproducible. The counselor can actually use the book with those receiving biblical counseling - starting with the gospel and building on the gospel with theological tracks. Establishing the fundamentals with the counselee’s;...
Nov 04, 2019•32 min•Ep. 32
Episode Notes: – Made to minister Regional Conference W/Carl & Laura Chica from Salem Heights Church. – The Unfortunate Reality of Oregon’s mental illness epidemic among children and adolesence; they have the highest rate of suiscide attempts, depression, and anxiety in the country and don’t have the help they need to meet the need with licensed professional counselors. – Most folks are having to wait several weeks to receive help, so they’ve bee working – Suicidality; 4 pepople above the na...
Oct 28, 2019•28 min•Ep. 31
Episode Notes: – Salem Heights, Lead Pastor, Justin Greene, – Carl Chica, Pastor of pastoral care & counseling – Bringing biblical counseling in their local church context, origin, and development of biblical counseling in their church; the impact in the local church and in the community at large. – The ministry started to happen naturally; given the need and just starting counseling as the need came. – It began small but had a quick and immediate impact within the body, so they started equi...
Oct 21, 2019•31 min•Ep. 30
Episode Notes Moving from Planting (Metro Church) to an already established church (The Mount). Creating an environment that allows people to struggle, starting from the platform. Truth Renewed isn’t a replacement for the church regarding counseling, but an overflow of care. Truth Renewed is a training center to help equip church leaders to become biblical counselors and launch biblical counseling in the local church. Trident of ministry; robust theology, organization strategy, counsel and care....
Oct 14, 2019•39 min•Ep. 29
Six Scriptural Truths that we need to focus on: Gal. 1.10 - Trusting in the LORD. What we trust is where our fear comes from. Faith is the willingness to look foolish. Humility - it’s not about me, but the work that God is accomplishing through me. James 3.13-18 - Wisdom from above, anything else is demonic. Jn 20.21 - Peace in the Father’s Will. Ezk. 2: 1-6: God’s will over man’s; we’ve been called into this co-prophets of God’s gospel - man won’t hear it all the time, but God has given us the ...
Oct 07, 2019•22 min•Ep. 28
Episode Notes: As a podcast devoted to biblical truth for counseling & discipleship for the counselor and local church, we wanted to invite our friend, Ronnie Mills, Pastor of Kingdom Chapel North Fort Worth Baptist Missionary Association of Texas help Ronnie launch out in their church plant Kingdom Chapel is located Alliance Christian Academy Biblical counseling training has greatly improved his discipleship efforts and his preaching. Biblical counseling has already begun to be rooted in th...
Sep 30, 2019•29 min•Ep. 27
Episode Notes: ◎ Scriptural examples: Jer. 17.5 - a powerful diagnostic ◎ living a cursed life when we anchor our lives in the flesh of our selves and others; living life in our own way. ◎ Ps. 1 ◎ a thriving fruitful tree even in a time of drought. ◎ Where does he place the location of the problem? ◎ How much change would be established if he changed his routines? ◎ Does he understand his own anger? ◎ Proverbs, Psalms, etc. speak to the nature of anger; who’s is the object of his anger? ◎ Jer. 1...
Sep 23, 2019•19 min•Ep. 26
Episode Notes: ◎ Andy reports being angry all the time ◎ Things we would address with Andy based on the summary of his behavior and his own perspective on life ◎ what does he think is going on ◎ what does he really get angry about ◎ Does Andy have a victim mindset? ◎ Was he motivated by his dad’s approval? ◎ What is uninteresting about God ◎ Does he consider himself as a Christian? ◎ More discussion around his understanding of God. ◎ How does he understand his own anger? ◎ What does Andy think h...
Sep 16, 2019•17 min•Ep. 25
Episode Notes: Marks from Joseph Pipa's book - The LORD's Day ◎ Scriptures: Isa 58:13-14; The purpose of the Sabbath - ◎ pg. 13; 17 (Rev. 1.10) Original Intent Gen. 2.1-3; ◎ The market day of the Soul Exod. 20.9-11; ◎ pg. 42; 44-45; First Day Sabbath Heb. 4.9-10 Ex. 20:8-15: In the same way the 7th commandment speaks to the ordinance of marriage - the creational mandate - by not committing adultery, and the 8th structures the creation ordinance of work. Episode Resources: Joseph Pipa - The Lord'...
Sep 09, 2019•29 min•Ep. 24
Episode Notes: ◎ Self-Care: how to avoid burnout. ◎ Going beyond our Sunday services and quite times to ensure we’re investing in our soul’s with God’s Word. ◎ Psalm 73.26, not Psalm. 76.13, there is no verse 13. ◎ 26 My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. (Ps. 73.26) ◎ Establishing a rhythm of rest at least one day of the week. ◎ Physically, Spiritually, Intellectually, Emotionally ◎ Ps. 46.10 ◎ A way to prevent taking things home is resting ...
Sep 02, 2019•31 min•Ep. 23
Episode Notes: ◎ How would you dig into some of the particulars that they’re struggling with that affecting their sex life and ultimately, their marital life? ◎ how they’re day-to-day grind is affecting their marriage, sexually, emotionally, and intellectually. that they’ve become so horizontally focused that they’ve lost sight of the vertical importance to their horizontal. ◎ Defining the Why of what we do. ◎ Do they see how they're destroying one another? ◎ How can they incarnate a merciful sp...
Aug 26, 2019•18 min•Ep. 22
