Speak The Truth

Episode Notes:what are the psalmshow would you use it in the counseling sessionAfter the session for homeworkThe 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

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 ResourcesWorthyHomeSheep Among WolvesElyse's Podcast - Worthy 

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 accountability and provides a pathway to becoming equipped in how to apply the gospel of Jesus Christ to everyday life.Level 1 Certification Objectives Develop a biblical philosophy of the Christian life that includes active involvement in a community of believers.Develop a biblical philosophy of counseling that emphasizes the call of all believers to take part in the work of counseling and discipleship.Understand the basic meaning of biblical counseling.Acquire a basic understanding of the general and specific methods of biblical counseling.Cover various counseling-related issues that include depression, anger, anxiety, addiction, and sexuality.Level 2 Certification Objectives Develop basic practical skills in the personal ministry of God’s word with people. These basic skills include careful listening, helping people open up, conveying compassion, grace, and mercy, and guiding constructive ministry conversations.Develop more advanced skills in the personal ministry of God’s word with people. These more advanced skills include responding patiently to difficult ministry conversations, discerning counseling problems from within a biblical worldview, helping people understand and apply the gospel of Jesus Christ in daily life, and more.Grow in Christian maturity as a minister of the gospel. That is, learn to be humble, repentant, and dependent upon the Holy Spirit in heart and life while ministering to others.Broaden your general knowledge of Scripture as it relates to life and struggles while also broadening the strategic and careful application of the Scripture to specific people and their situations.Learn how to depend on the Holy Spirit during the process of change.Develop a genuine love for others, and active, daily prayer life.Level 3 Certification Objectives Specialized trainingEpisode Resources:shauna@christiancounseling.com for more information about ways to connect with training centers

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 statement - placing God at the center of why you do a particular activity/exercise, etc.Gal. 5:16-17 - competing desiresMatt. 6:21 - what does the person valueEph. 4:22-24 - deceitful desires and what they can produceThe physical and emotional benefits of exercising Endorphin release - improving sleep quality, mood and cognitive functionNeurotropic release - learning abilityAdrenal functioning - improving mod, and ability to cope with stressHabituation

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 gracious, continual, and progressive work in the lives of His children. If people want to understand their suffering, their struggles, their sin, the process of change, the means to change, and the purpose for change, they must embed, and then interpret their individual stories within the context of God’s divine and redemptive narrative. Only then, does any of it have meaning, significance, and purpose.  Previous EquipU Episodes: - Ep. 64 - Heart of the Matter Part2 "Put On"- Ep. 56 - Heart of the Matter Part1 "Put Off"Please email us at topics@speakthetruth.org with any questions or topics you'd like us to discuss. 

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 WorthBaptist 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 the DNA of the church, so we can raise up leaders through discipleship and biblical counseling to strengthen the body, and keep it healthy. Email Speak The Truth about getting a biblical counseling ministry started in your church; topics@speakthetruth.org 5 Resolves for soul careGod has called meGod has gone before mePastor now - shepherd nowStay relative to “us”. .....Raise leaders - we can’t do this on our own. The hardest thing about church planting is putting yourself out there. Fear of man becomes a huge struggle for putting yourself out there as leaders.  Episode Resources:  Kingdom Chapel - North Fort Worth Missionary Baptist Association of Texas Truth Renewed Biblical CounselingAssociation of Biblical Counselors Alliance Christian Academy Exemplary Husband - Stewart Scott  

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 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. In the same way, we raise up leaders to make Sunday happen, we need to raise up care leaders for the rest of the week - where ministry lives. Don’t stop plowing, it takes time to bring life change and equipping the saints. Trust the process of sanctification. Find those in your congregation who are gifted in caring for others, they’re serious about God’s Word and the process of transformation, and scholarship them. Find a line item in your budget to cultivate the saints in soul care. The posture of a pastor should be a leader of learning. Sunday morning is to edify the saints. Email us on any topics; topics@speakthetruth.org Reach out to Shauna if you’d like to start a biblical counseling ministry @ christiancounseling.com Episode Resources: The Mount Church Metro Church Rage Ministries Instruments in the Redeemer's Hand's Christiancounseling.com Information about training your lay leaders as biblical counselors or becoming a training center, email Shauna, Shauna@christiancounseling.com

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 injusticesI am for the statement, but I don't support the mission or values of the organization.Episode Resources:Books recommended by TreyFrederick Douglass: A Prophet of Freedom The New Jim Crow White Metropolis Oneness Embrace Free At Last The Next Evangelicalism Divided By Faith

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 racismWe 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/whoareweSpecs Movement: http://www.thespecsmovement.com/

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, is moving from life to scripture.Don’t counsel alone, bring others in with you. Reduplicate yourselves.An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Promote preventative ministries.Resources From Episode"Park Side churchFieldstone CounselingBiblical Counseling CoalitionCounsel for Couples