by Pastor Bruce Roeder | Mar 11, 2015 | Biblical Counseling, Pastor Bruce's Blog
John MacArthur attacked the problem of incorrectly classifying addictions and compulsive behaviors as diseases over twenty years ago in his book The Vanishing Conscience: Perhaps the most prevalent means of escaping blame is by classifying every human failing as some...
by Pastor Bruce Roeder | Feb 7, 2015 | Biblical Counseling
After I posted Are Addictions Diseases and received some feedback, I was curious as to how many bad habits are listed as addictions and therefore diseases if you follow the popular medical model of addictions. I found a website...
by Pastor Bruce Roeder | Jan 27, 2015 | Biblical Counseling, Pastor Bruce's Blog
The other day I was half paying attention to what was on television when I heard someone refer to a drug addiction as a disease. It immediately reminded me of what one of my biblically counseling teachers said when he noted, “if it’s a disease then it’s the only...
by Pastor Bruce Roeder | Jan 24, 2015 | Biblical Counseling, Pastor Bruce's Blog
I wanted to write a follow-up to my blog titled How Counseling is Discipleship: Personal Experience. In that blog I made reference to an article by psychologist Mark Tyrrell titled, How to avoid the damage caused by psychological labelling. Here is the lengthily...
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