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@jasonkovacs @jonathanholmes Amen! So encouraging to see such a kind and compassionate man of God who is deeply committed to the word of God leading @ccef God is good!

Very excited about this news! I believe @jonathanholmes is the right man to lead CCEF and faithfully steward its legacy into the days ahead.

@da_horton @PrestonSprinkle @edstetzer @Dodgers well said sir, great series! Congrats

@revleedyck @PrestonSprinkle @edstetzer I just let my team do the talking 😉 - but in all seriousness this was a series for the ages!!! Great season and hats off to the Bluejays! Let’s go @Dodgers #WorldSeries

Time to troll some Dodgers fans in my feed before game 7, LETS GO JAYS 🇨🇦@PrestonSprinkle @da_horton @edstetzer #LightsUpLetsGo

sad feelings

@PrestonSprinkle @da_horton @edstetzer 🤣

@revleedyck @da_horton @edstetzer

@da_horton @edstetzer Just delaying the inevitable! 🇨🇦

@edstetzer Welcome to the family! We’ve been waiting for you!

30 years! GOD IS GOOD!!!

@challies Preorder placed, looking forward to it!

My new book and documentary project releases two weeks from today, and that makes this the time to preorder it (please)! The documentary is free with the book. amzn.to/46JOhyM #affiliatelink

“As you grow in grace beware of falling into this error: Stop thinking about the Gospel as a mere collection of dry doctrines. Look at it rather as the revelation of a mighty living Being in whose sight you are daily to live.” @JCRyle

@jasonkovacs Amen, well said brother!

Are clinically-informed Biblical Counseling ministries drifting from Scripture? Over the past year concerns have been raised about biblical counseling centers that use the term “clinically-informed.” Some claim these ministries are denying the sufficiency of Scripture, becoming zombie-like imitations of secular psychology, and actually doing harm. Given the seriousness of these claims, I think it’s worth stepping back and asking is that really true? For some historical context, I believe it was Brad Hambrick, Jonathan Holmes, Joshua Waulk and I who first started using the term around 2013-2014. We did not use it to create some new form of Biblical Counseling but rather to describe what we believed is an expression of the kind of Biblical counseling that addresses both sin and suffering, the whole person, and approached common grace insights biblically. That did not seem very controversial. Who are some of the centers that use this term? • Fieldstone Counseling — Parkside Church • Perimeter Counseling — Perimeter Church • Austin Stone Counseling — Austin Stone Community Church • Bridgehaven Counseling — Summit Church • Baylight Counseling — Calvary Church I believe these ministries - all connected to gospel-centered churches - are the best representatives of Biblical counseling that is clinically-informed. What does that mean? • They hold and trust in Scripture as the final authority for truth, hope, and change. • They are passionately Christ-centered above all else. The person and work of Christ is foundational. • They believe in the sufficiency of Scripture for life and godliness, while also acknowledging that God’s common grace provides helpful insights through research, medicine, and the observation of human behavior. • They seek to care for the whole person—body and soul—and recognize the complexity of issues like trauma, mental illness, and relational dynamics. In doing so they do not minimize the impact of sin but see it in its wholeness - impacting not only soul but body and relationships. • They deny a deterministic view and remain committed to Christ-centered change rather than purely symptom management. Are these ministries perfect? Of course not. No counseling ministry or church is. Do we need to be wise and careful in our approach when we are looking at the complexity of common grace, science, and secular observations - absolutely. Drift is possible and if there is anything that moves us from the hope of the gospel at the center then I am willing to change and learn. But I have yet to be convinced of this in terms of how I and these ministries are approaching Biblical Counseling. So to claim that they’ve abandoned biblical counseling is, in my opinion, simply a claim that does not accurately reflect what is happening. Being clinically-informed does not mean abandoning Scripture or diminishing its sufficiency. It means wisely discerning how the truths of Scripture apply in complex human experiences, and how knowledge from the created world can serve the care of souls under the authority of God’s Word. So, if you hear someone dismissing these ministries I encourage you: Look at their statements of faith. Read their beliefs and values. Examine their counseling resources. Talk to them and those who have been helped.

@jasonkovacs “Bible meditation is like immersing a tea bag completely and letting it steep until all the rich tea flavor has been extracted and the hot water is thoroughly tinctured reddish brown. Meditation on Scripture is letting the Bible brew in the brain.” @DonWhitney

Thomas Watson said: “The reason we come away so cold from reading the Word is because we do not warm ourselves at the fire of meditation.” I love that picture — my heart is like a pot of cold water being placed on the lit stove of God's Word.

Let’s go @BlueJays #LightsUpLetsGo #OpeningDay

Here with our daughter ready to start the Canadian Biblical Counseling Coalition Conference @HopeBibleOak #BibleCn

Celebrating our beautiful daughter this #WorldDownSyndromeDay

Happy Birthday to our professor J.R.R. Tolkien who wrote to his son, "There is a place called heaven where the good here unfinished is completed; and where the stories unwritten, and the hopes unfulfilled, are continued. We may laugh together yet."

Happy 17th bday to our little giggle princess 🎂

Be still, and know that I am God. - Psalm 46:10

"What happens to the mind of a person, and the moral fabric of a nation, that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience? What kind of a person, and what kind of a society will we have 20 years hence if life can be taken so casually? It is that question, the question of our attitude, our value system, and our mind-set with regard to the nature and worth of life itself that is the central question confronting mankind. Failure to answer that question affirmatively may leave us with a hell right here on earth." —Jesse Jackson, "How We Respect Life Is the Over-Riding Moral Issue," 1977 groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauc…

“How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.” — G.K. Chesterton

@jasonkovacs Nice, enjoy! Hoping they can be the second Canadian team to ever come back from 0-3!

Heading to Vancouver to meet up with my dad and then on to Edmonton for tommorrows game! #HappyFathersDay #LetsGoOilers