The Problems with Jay Adams’ Nouthetic Counseling Works-Sanctification Doctrine
Jay Adams’ nouthetic counseling methods have done great damage to the abused. How has his view on sanctification distorted the Christian life?
No “Digging Up the Past” Allowed: A Response to Nouthetic (“Biblical”) Counseling
Sometimes I talk with people who want healing and help from the Lord but are hesitant to “dig up the past” or who have counselors who don’t want them to “dig up the past.” For a while now, maybe over a year, I’ve been mulling over that pejorative expression. “Digging up the past” to me …
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Here’s an Abuse Survivor’s Plea about Nouthetic “Biblical” Counseling
An abuse survivor who experienced the nouthetic counseling that is called “Biblical” describes it and makes a plea for change.
Our Christian Deconstruction Journey (guest post by my husband, Tim Davis)
Taking the beliefs apart, brick by brick, to examine the soundness of the foundation. That’s Deconstruction. The rebuilding on the sound foundation. That’s Reconstruction.
“(Don’t) Save the Body”: A Response to John MacArthur’s Head of Counseling
I enjoy irony when it’s in the context of literature. When it’s in the context of a Bible teacher who seems to be completely oblivious about the contradictions of his statements, it makes me feel like I need to practice my breathing techniques. Apparently, according to professor John Street, head of counseling at John MacArthur’s …
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Restoring a Pedophile, According to Jay Adams
This article is Part Three of the series “Competent to Examine Jay Adams and His Teachings,” written with the help of Valerie Jacobsen. Part One, “How Jay Adams Would Counsel a Pedophile,” is here. Part Two, “How Pedophiles are Forgiven, from the Teachings of Jay Adams,” is here. Now it’s time for restoration
How Pedophiles Are Forgiven, From the Teachings of Jay Adams
This is Part 2 in my “Competent to Examine Jay Adams and His Teachings” series. Part 1, about counseling a pedophile, can be found here. ***** Many years ago when I was a very young and very naïve teacher at a Christian high school, I caught a student blatantly cheating on a test. I talked …
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How Jay Adams Would Counsel a Pedophile
Part 1 in the Series: Competent to Examine Jay Adams and His Nouthetic Counseling I have posted about “nouthetic counseling” (later rebranded to be called “Biblical counseling”) more than any other tagged topic on this blog. But this series will examine Jay Adams’ writings themselves, drawing from the work of Valerie Jacobsen on her Facebook …
Why You Need to Listen to Your Emotions
“[T]he first story told about the wisest man ever is about how he made a just and true decision based on the emotional response of a mother who dearly loved her child.”
“Look To the Cross More”: A Response to the “Gospel-Centered” Movement
Last week I received a letter from my friend Ana. The first part of her first question read: In the Reformed/Gospel-centered movement, the focus seems to be on how sinful and wicked and powerless we all are and how comforted and relieved we should be when we look to the cross. It seems like the …
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