Therapy and psychoanalytic forms of counseling are a billion dollar industry in the United States. There are millions of Christians every year who are looking for help with their emotional and behavioral problems from non-Christian counselors. These are people who have no biblical interest or spiritual insight and are in fact in many cases hostile to our faith. Even Christian counselors are often not biblical in their approach, and and sometimes encourage their counselees to deconstruct their faith and train them and teach them to deflect their issues back onto the church - the church that maybe has loved them and cared for them over the years but somehow has become a problem. There are many Christian counselors who practice in this manner.

Counseling as an industry itself is intended to self-perpetuate by keeping people locked into normalizing their problems so that there is no way of having absolute victory over reckoning things in their life and finding the solution they need.

Today, we want to ask the questions, "what if the church reclaimed its responsibility to counsel the hurting people within their churches?" and, "what if the local church was trained and prepared to receive the hurting, and no longer had to refer hurting congregants outside of the church to find help.” We've invited professional counselor and faculty professor of biblical counseling at Living Faith Bible Institute, Jonathan Kindler, to sit down with us and to have a conversation about what it looks like for the church to take back the role of counselor. Specifically, we discuss both the need for the church to counsel its own members together with a Bible principle guided framework for doing so.

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We continue our biblical counseling series with professor of Biblical Counseling, Jonathan Kindler. This time we talk about addictive thought and behavior patterns, discussing biblical pathways for breaking free from sin strong holds. Furthermore, we answer questions like, is addiction just a chronic illness that can only be managed? And, how do we lovingly counsel and offer real hope to those around us who feel defeated?

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In this episode of the Postscript, we sit down with Professor of Biblical Counseling Jonathan Kindler to discuss what it looks like to deal with loss and grief in a biblical manner. Grief is a universal experience, but not everyone walks through emotional pain in a way that is healthy. Jonathan shares with us how to identify grief in our life as well as to acknowledge if we have failed to grieve in a biblical way. He also provides steps with how to handle our grief as it rises up, sometimes in unexpected ways.

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We continue our series with Jonathan Kindler, LFBI professor of Biblical Counseling, to discuss the topic of marriage. We briefly address underlying thoughts, behaviors and patterns that manifest in common presenting issues. We discuss what it looks like to counsel couples according to God’s purpose and plan, beginning with the gospel. Lastly, we touch on how a biblically sound relationship functions and what intimacy looks like for the married couple who’s main goal is to glorify Christ.

In this episode we speak with LFBI professor and professional counselor Jonathan Kindler regarding therapeutic culture and America’s obsession with finding personal happiness. Despite a pervasive mental health culture, why is depression and anxiety at an all time high? In this episode we reveal a better pursuit: joy and a divine mission.

In this episode with LFBI professor & professional counsellor Jon Kindler we address several key questions on the topic of fear — What is its place in our life? Is there a spiritual component to fear? What are the broken mechanisms we use to cope with fear in the flesh that always fail in time? What happens when fear goes unchecked by truth?

Lastly, we see what God’s Word says about dealing with fear. This leads us to a spiritual walk marked by freedom in faith by the power of God.

We contrast the secular view of depression to the biblical. We then discuss an approach to helping people understand the thought cycles that cause despair.