Required Reading

2 page book reports due at the end of the year.

• Seeing with New Eyes by David Powlison
• Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands by Paul David Tripp
• The Gospel for Disordered Lives by Jones, Kellen, and Green
• A Theology of Biblical Counseling by Heath Lambert

Required Listening

Listen to one Biblical Counseling podcast per week and fill out summary:

Approved Podcasts

1. Counseling Talk by 9Marks, with Garrett Kell, Hayley Satrom, and Deepak Reju
2. Counsel the Word: Conversations about Biblical Counseling from the Center for Biblical Counseling and Discipleship (CBCD)
3. Transformed with Greg Gifford
4. 15:14 from the Biblical Counseling Coalition (BCC)
5. Hope + Help Podcast from The Institute for Biblical Counseling and Discipleship (IBCD)
6. Truth in Love from the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors (ACBC)

Podcast Summary Template

Your Name:

Date:

Name of Podcast and Episode:

Summary:

• What did you learn?
• How were you encouraged?
• How will you apply?

Fall

Biblical Counseling | The Basis and Beliefs

• Week 1: Mandate of Biblical Counseling
• Week 2: The Definition and Goal of Biblical Counseling
• Week 3: How We Change: Progressive Sanctification and the Process of Change
• Week 4: Who Can and Should counsel?
• Week 5: Getting to the Heart
• Week 6: Local Church is the Best Context
• Week 7: Various Theories
• Week 8: What Makes Biblical Counseling Biblical?

Winter 1

Biblical Counseling | Practices

• Week 1: Gathering Data
• Week 2: Gathering Data Continued
• Week 3: Discerning Problems Biblically
• Week 4: Discerning Problems Biblically
• Week 5: Establishing Involvement
• Week 6: Giving Hope
• Week 7: Providing Instruction
• Week 8: Giving Growth Assignments

Winter 2

Biblical Counseling | Marriage and Family

• Week 1: God’s Purpose for Marriage
• Week 2: Roles in Marriage
• Week 3: Communication in Marriage
• Week 4: Sex and Sexuality in Marriage
• Week 5: The Goal of Parenting
• Week 6: Parental Instruction
• Week 7: Parental Discipline
• Week 8: Kids and Social Media

Spring

Biblical Counseling | Common Problems

• Week 1: Guilt and Repentance
• Week 2: Forgiveness
• Week 3: Trials and Suffering
• Week 4: Fear and Worry
• Week 5: Anger
• Week 6: Depression
• Week 7: Sexual Sin
• Week 8: Medical Issues