by Pastor Bruce Roeder | Oct 12, 2017 | Biblical Counseling, Pastor Bruce's Blog
A number of years ago there was a column in the local newspaper written by a psychologist. The column was what one would expect as it dealt with the problems common to people, like depression, anxiety, relationships and so forth. Since the psychologist did not possess...
by Pastor Bruce Roeder | Jan 26, 2016 | Biblical Counseling, Pastor Bruce's Blog
“Lying is nothing unusual in small children. In fact, it’s a sign of healthy mental growth.” So states an article titled Children’s Lies Are a Sign of Cognitive Progress in the Wall Street Journal. Perhaps the key paragraph is this… “Child-rearing trends might seem to...
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...
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