Two-Book Series Information On September 15, 2020, Baker Books released Dr. Bob Kellemen’s 19th and 20th books—a two-book series on marriage and family counseling: Gospel-Centered Marriage Counseling: An Equipping Guide for Pastors and Counselors Gospel-Centered Family Counseling: An Equipping Guide for Pastors and Counselors To learn more about the books, including free resources and sample chapters, people can visit Bob’s RPM Ministries website: www.rpmministries.org . Also, RPM Ministries has...
Jan 11, 2021•36 min•Ep. 81
Biblical Concepualization of OCD 300.3 Presence of obsessions, compulsions, or both: Obsessions are conceptualized by the following: Fallen World—There is empirical evidence that obsessions are strongly influenced by factors associated with living in a fallen world (i.e., brain structure, physical, emotional, or sexual abuse at a young age). Fear—Obsessions within this diagnosis are typically associated with perceived and potentially dreadful outcomes. For example, becoming contaminated by germs...
Dec 07, 2020•29 min•Ep. 80
DSM 5 Criteria for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder 300.3 Presence of obsessions, compulsions, or both: Obsessions are defined by (1) and (2) Recurrent and persistent thoughts, urges, or images that are experienced, at some time during the disturbance, as intrusive and unwanted, and that in most individuals cause marked anxiety or distress. The individual attempts to ignore or suppress such thoughts, urges, or images, or to neutralize them with some other thought or action (i.e., by performing a co...
Nov 16, 2020•27 min•Ep. 79
This was a podcast we did earlier this year to begin the conversation regarding the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorder with an important disclaimer. In order to re-engage the conversation of counseling people who have been highly psychologized, we wanted to review this episode to set up our episode next week regarding (OCD | Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). Here are the notes from earlier this year on this episode. Stay tuned next week as we continue in our "unpacking diagnoses"...
Nov 09, 2020•23 min•Ep. 78
In this episode, host, Mike Van Dyke sits down with Pastor and Biblical Counselor, Lee Lewis to discuss establishing mutual soul care in the local church - bringing soul care into the life and culture of the local church. They discuss the process of evaluating the culture in a church - it's care culture and discipleship culture. And asking questions that may reveal being a Sunday heavy church. Is it time to change the model of our churches? Is the current model producing disciples that are equip...
Oct 12, 2020•23 min•Ep. 77
Episode Notes: Trauma-Induced Anxiety The effects of sin Identifying gospel gaps in the anxious heart Concern and trouble are sinful, it's when it goes beyond that to worry and anxiety What we do with worry either leads to trust or anxiety. And depending on where that trust is, depends on when something turns into full-blown anxiety. Conditioned Anxiety - when one blows right past care and concern into anxiety. Then anxious heart always puts God on trial and questions His character. Episode Reso...
Oct 05, 2020•28 min•Ep. 76
Episode Notes: what are the psalms how would you use it in the counseling session After the session for homework The Psalms naturally model for us a Godwardness to our prayers, thinking, suffering, and pain. What life is about the bible is about, and what the bible is about is what life most needs to be about. Resources: Counseling Through The Psalms - ABCRes
Sep 28, 2020•33 min•Ep. 75
Episode Notes: In this episode, the hosts, Mike, Shauna, and Jeremy are joined with Author, Elyse Fitzpatrick to discuss her Home: How Heaven and the New Earth Satisfy Our Deepest Longings. And then they discuss her newest book, Worthy: Celebrating the Value of Women. Episode Resources Worthy Home Sheep Among Wolves Elyse's Podcast - Worthy...
Sep 21, 2020•20 min•Ep. 74
Episode Notes: ABC's aim through the certification pathway to help equip the local church - a pastor in helping shepherd the local church - but also the professional to help better apply the bible in their practice. Our pathway provides a foundational process in which to grow while allowing one to practically apply the truth as one learns; so our methodology creates the ability to cultivate a biblical counseling paradigm in the local church. The certification parameter creates a culture of accou...
Sep 14, 2020•29 min•Ep. 73
Exercise - excerpt from the monthly (August) EquipU piece: Exercise has wonderful potential to positively impact one’s mental state in various ways. It is also important to note that while not emphasized in Western culture, exercise at root, is a spiritual activity. It is a spiritual activity because one’s motives for doing anything, including exercise, are ultimately anchored in what an individual is worshipping. 1 Cor. 10:31 - "Whatever you do" "do all" "to the glory of God" Creating a purpose...
Sep 07, 2020•24 min•Ep. 72
In this episode, the hosts, Mike, Shauna, and Jeremy discuss how this ABC EquipU Resource can be used as homework in helping our counselee's see their story's hardships, sufferings, and subsequent trauma through the larger Redemptive Narrative of God. The application from the exercise with the counselee would be; Individual lives are like a sentence in a much bigger story. If people interpret reality based on their own subjective story, then they will miss the glorious story of God and His graci...
Aug 31, 2020•17 min•Ep. 71
Episode Summary: In this episode, the hosts, Mike & Shauna, are joined in studio with special guest, Ronnie Mills Church planter of Kingdom Chapel in North Fort Worth to discuss church planting and biblical counseling; creating biblical counseling in the DNA of a new church plant. 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 Ba...
Aug 24, 2020•29 min•Ep. 70
This episode was from last year(EP.29); hosts, Michael & Shauna, have a special guest Pastor, Andy Swart discussing; launching a biblical counseling ministry within his established church. Intentionally raising up lay leaders who love people and know God's Word to do the work of the ministry within their own body - cultivating Saints for Soul Care - the purpose of "one-anothering" in the local church. Episode Notes Moving from Planting (Metro Church) to an already established church (The Mou...
Aug 17, 2020•39 min•Ep. 69
Episode Notes: Trey gives his perspective on the statement, #BlackLivesMatter #BlackLivesMatter was the first organization to speak up about how they felt about the mistreatment of people of color - the church didn't step up and say something needs to be done. The evangelical church didn't step up and speak out against these injustices I am for the statement, but I don't support the mission or values of the organization. Episode Resources: Books recommended by Trey Frederick Douglass: A Prophet ...
Aug 03, 2020•33 min•Ep. 68
Episode Notes: Over 80% of churches are homogenous churches; White churches, Black churches, Hispanic churches, Asian churches, etc. Protesting without deconstructing doesn't tare down the walls of systemic racism We need to research what is system racism or institutional racism and find ways to deconstruct it in our spheres of influence. Be intentional in cultivating relationships with those who don't look like us, etc. Episode Resources: The Well Church: https://www.thewellchurchkeller.org/who...
Jul 27, 2020•27 min•Ep. 67
A Few Points: There isn’t really anything available that speaks directly to laypeople, church leaders who could use it as a resource., user friendly, helpful as soon as you pick it up. Using this book for leadership development would be extremely useful. Fieldstone grew outside of the church. Pastors move from scripture to life and counselors are trying to move from life to scripture. - For pastors who are preaching week to week; if you’re trying to move from Scripture to life, all counseling is...
Jul 13, 2020•26 min•Ep. 66
Greg Wilson discusses the nature and scope of “Domestic Violence”, defined and explained. The church hasn’t done well in this category of ministry. Desecrating the image of God in another person. Where man has perverted the dominion that God gave man to rule and subdue the earth, but in man’s sinful state, he corruptly exerts power through violence. Definition: the desecration of the image of God through patterns of intentionally misusing power overtly or covertly in words or actions to gratify ...
Jul 06, 2020•34 min•Ep. 65
Show Notes: “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. He is like a tree planted by the water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.” Jeremiah 17:7-8 The Heart of the Matter (Put On) Series is intended for use upon thoroughly working through the Put Off portion of this series. It is designed to help you facilitate a process wi...
Jun 29, 2020•34 min•Ep. 64
Episode Summary: Curtis takes time to Demystify PTSD by removing the D out of it. It’s not an abnormal reaction to normal life, but it’s really a normal response to really extreme and difficult circumstances. PTSD is severely misunderstood, and in this episode, Curtis offers a robust understanding of the nature and scope of PTSD. Episode Notes: How do we demystify PTSD? With the Counselee, helping them understand what’s going on physiologically and spiritually as far as what they're facing becau...
Jun 22, 2020•29 min•Ep. 63
Episode Notes Answers to Shauna's questions of who'd we like to sit down with over a cup of coffee Mike - Jeff Durbin Shauna - John Piper / Ben Shapiro Jeremy - James K. A. Smith / Jordan Peterson Topics & Questions Answered Grief? grieving the loss of a child or a child losing a parent Books on grief & loss Bob Kellemen - God's healing for life's losses: to find hope when you're hurting Paul Tautges - A small book for the hearting heart: meditations on loss, grief, and healing Paul Taut...
Jun 15, 2020•42 min•Ep. 62
Show Notes: Paul Tripp discusses his heart behind his recent book release on suffering, “Suffering: gospel hope when life doesn’t make sense”, which was largely due to his own recent experiences in suffering through an acute renal failure. Listen as Paul shares the nature of suffering and our response to it. "Tweetable Tripp one-liners" from the episode Suffering is spiritual warfare Suffering isn’t neutral, we never come to suffering empty; we don’t suffer the thing your suffering, you suffer t...
Jun 08, 2020•28 min•Ep. 61
Show notes: The cultural view of depression Treats it like a disease, attributing it or reducing it to a chemical imbalance or a genetic disposition. These aren’t invalid, but it causes a quick diagnosis so it can be treated quickly. It can almost promise a remedy, which scripturally speaking, is much deeper, its more of a heart problem that has physiological and emotional implications. Therefore, culture has a very superficial view and resolution to depression, very much consistent with the med...
Jun 01, 2020•34 min•Ep. 60
Episode Notes: - What is EMDR Therapy Developed by Psychologist Francine Shapiro, EMDR stands for Eye Movement Reprocessing and Desensitization. It focuses on how memory is stored in the brain and how that impacts experience. It is a successful evidenced-based method for treating trauma. - How is it used EMDR uses dual attention stimulation (eye movements, tapping, or rhythmic audio sounds) to activate the brain’s orienting response, allowing you to access adaptive information and attach it to t...
May 25, 2020•31 min•Ep. 59
Episode Notes: After 8 or 9 minutes of riffing about being in lockdown with each other, the discussion starts about using assessments in the counseling room and with the local church for leadership development. ABC has a resource page with the assessments broken down into categories such as: Anger Marriage Sex Intimacy bitterness Money Spiritual Life Substance Abuse Parenting Adultery Domestic Abuse Womanhood, etc. Besides providing excellent training for certifying biblical counselors, ABC is a...
May 18, 2020•26 min•Ep. 58
General Notes: Discuss Stewart Scott's new book, "31 Ways to be A One-Another Christian How Mike uses it as a pastor to encourage group leaders to be more relationally intentional with their groups and then being able to use it as a more formative leadership developing piece. Also, as a counselor, being able to use it as a form of data gathering, where the counselor is being forward about the relational dynamic of church engagement. As most counselees are pretty infrequent in attending church an...
May 11, 2020•27 min•Ep. 57
Episode Notes: The Heart of the Matter: designed to help facilitate a process with our counselees to help with the opportunity of examining their hearts. Drawn from Psalm 26.2 Heart log (helpful in assisting counselees to identify various aspects of their hearts begin to identify our theirs through logging A situation Their emotion Their thoughts and beliefs Their desires and wants Their subsequent behaviors and habits Emotion Wheel Emotions are often smoke alarms of the soul that alert us to pr...
May 04, 2020•33 min•Ep. 56
Episode Notes Interview with Lee Lewis (was in our 10th podcast on depression) Pastor at Radiant Church in Austin - https://www.radiantaustin.com/ www.soulcareconsulting.com 12 stone counseling - Garret Higbee https://www.twelvestones.org/ Soulcare Consulting Creating a ministry of soul care Build a culture of care not a side avenue of care What would that process look like for a church considering implementing this culture of care 360 evaluation interview process Evaluate what's already happeni...
Apr 27, 2020•31 min•Ep. 55
Episode Notes: Faith God will give you everything you need to complete the work, task, job, etc. that he assigned you to do - not according to your ability, but his ability to work through you. Faith isn't in your ability to do something, but your faith in God giving the work to you. God has given you the assignement; he has called you to do this and he will give you everything you need in order to do this, not because of your own ability, but because of his ability through you. - Shauna Van Dyk...
Apr 20, 2020•23 min•Ep. 54
COVID-19 Anxiety & Fear: P2 Phil. 4:4-9 3 fold plan for responding to COVID-19 Praying Thinking biblically And living biblically Anxiety - "its a feeling of worry, nervousness, uneasiness, or distress over a real or a perceived threat." - Shauna Van Dyke Helpful Resources COVID - Anxiety Article
Apr 13, 2020•32 min•Ep. 53
Episode Notes: The hosts start riffing about how COVID-19 has impacted everyone in some measure and trying to find a new normal. Please pray for Jeremy's wife, Lynne as she continues to fight on the front lines here in Fort Worth. Proverbs 12.25 - without a good word ( a word of real hope), how do those without Christ navigate this? There is no neutrality, there has to be something stronger, like faith, to combat the anxiety where it replaces the anxious heart and thoughts. because there is no n...
Apr 06, 2020•29 min•Ep. 52
