

Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
A podcast providing biblical solutions for the problems people face. This podcast is a resource from the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors. For more information about ACBC visit biblicalcounseling.com.
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Dec 22, 2025 • 16min
TIL 548: Christmas Traditions (feat. Jacob Elwart)
1. What are some of your favorite Christmas traditions?
2. What are some of the special ways that you guys celebrate Christmas?
3. What do Christmas eve and day look like with your family?
4. What are some of the key things that are comforting for you about the Incarnation?
5. What are some of the special meals that you have with one another?
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Dec 15, 2025 • 24min
TIL 547: The Catechizing Counselor (feat. Sinclair Ferguson)
1. Describe the concept of catechism and its history and importance.
2. What are some ways our culture has detracted from chatechizing as we see in church history?
3. What is the value in catechizing?
4. What is the value of teaching this way in the church?
5. What are some of the palces you would encourage people to start with catechisms?
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Dec 8, 2025 • 16min
TIL 546: Teaching Counselees to Apply the Truth (feat. Jacob Elwart)
1. What is the goal of biblical counseling and the concept of homework?
2. How do you help people learn the basics of applying Scripture?
3. What are some categories of homework we can give?
4. What do we do to motivate counselee's to do the homework?
5. How can the local church be involved in the counseling process?
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Dec 1, 2025 • 20min
TIL 545: In-Law Relationships (feat. Ryan Trzeciak)
1. How should we think of in-law relationships and what does the Bible have to say?
2. What are some examples of in-law relationships in the Bible?
3. What conflict can arise from in-law relationships?
4. How do we rightly order God's design and mitigate in-law conflict?
5. How do we see the importance of leaving and cleaving in the Bible?
6. What would you say to a young couple struggling to navigate in-law relationships?
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Nov 24, 2025 • 16min
TIL 544: ACBC Mailbag - Secular Therapy? (feat. Sam Stephens & Francine Tan)
1. How do we approach someone who is involved in secular therapy?
2. Questions to ask in an initial conversation.
3. How to approach the conversation in a winsome and intentional way.
4. How to refraim the conversation towards hope in Jesus and His Word.
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Nov 17, 2025 • 15min
TIL 543: Starving Our Desires (feat. Keith Evans)
1. Why do you think Scripture seems to make fasting more important than we do today?
2. How do we define fasting?
3. What are some of the purposes of fasting?
4. What is the role of fasting in discipleship?
5. How can fasting be helpful in the counseling context?
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Nov 10, 2025 • 37min
TIL 542: Practices of Gentle Parenting (feat. Sam Stephens & Emily Stahly)
1. What are some of the practice promoted in Gentle Parenting.
2. How are thoughts of depravity being modified into thoughts of sensitivity?
3. How does Gentle Parenting address the lack of self control in children?
4. How do we discern between Gentle Parenting's view of discipline and a biblical view of discipline?
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Nov 3, 2025 • 30min
TIL 541: What is Gentle Parenting (feat. Sam Stephens & Emily Stahly)
1. What is Gentle Parenting
2. What are the foundational teachings/beliefs of Gentle Parenting?
3. What are some of the ideas behind the teaching or beliefs of Gentle Parenting?
4. What makes Gentle Parenting appealing?
5. How does Gentle Parenting wrongly focus on parents?
6. How do we respond when we fail?
7. How does Gentle Parenting use the fear of messing up your kids as motivation?
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Oct 27, 2025 • 17min
TIL 540: ACBC Mailbag - Shame & Guilt (feat. Francine Tan)
1. Can you explain the difference between shame and guilt?
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Oct 20, 2025 • 28min
TIL 539: A Presuppositional Approach (feat. Marshall Adkins)
1. Who was Van Til?
2. What was Van Til's presuppositional approach to apologetics?
3. How would Van Til lay out the distingush between what human beings can observe and know?
4. How does a fallen human being use their mind?
5. What is the connection from Van Til to David Powlison?
6. What are ways Van Til influenced the biblical counseling movement through David Powlison?
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