Speak The Truth

Episode Summary: Last year(EP. 27) we interviewed Ronnie Mills, Church planter of Kingdom Chapel in North Fort Worth to discuss church planting and biblical counseling; creating biblical counseling in the DNA of a new church plant.

This episode was from last year(EP.29); hosts, Michael & Shauna, have a special guest Pastor, Andy Swart discussing; launching a biblical counseling ministry within his established church. Intentionally raising up lay leaders who love people and know God's Word to do the work of the ministry within their own body - cultivating Saints for Soul Care - the purpose of "one-anothering" in the local church. Episode Notes Moving from Planting (Metro Church) to an already established church (The Mount). Creating an environment that allows people to struggle, starting from the platform. Truth Renewed isn’t a replacement for the church regarding counseling, but an overflow of care. Truth Renewed is a training center to help equip church leaders to become biblical counselors and launch biblical counseling in the local church. Trident of ministry; robust theology, organization strategy, counsel and care. In the same way, we raise up leaders to make Sunday happen, we need to raise up care leaders for the rest of the

In this episode, the hosts, Mike, Shauna, Jeremy, and special guest, Pastor, Trey Grant. Trey shares his perspective on #BlackLivesMatter and ways the local church can respond by educating and equipping the Saints in applying the gospel to racist perspectives. Please reach out to us if you'd like us to discuss anything at topics@speakthetruth.org Episode Resources: Frederick Douglass: A Prophet of Freedom The New Jim Crow White Metropolis Oneness Embrace Free At Last The Next Evangelicalism Divided By Faith

In this episode, hosts, Mike, Shauna, Jeremy, and special guest, Trey Grant discuss how the church can help deconstruct systemic racism in practical ways starting with our areas of influence. Trey talks about a ministry within his church, The Specs Movement, that focuses on deconstructing racist perspectives that produce racism, and his own personal experiences. This is part 1 of our interview with Trey, and part 2 will focus on Trey's perspective of the statement and subsequent network of #BlackLivesMatter. Remember to email us at topics@speakthetruth.org with any questions, topics wanted to be addressed, etc.

This episode is from last year's Association of Biblical Counselors - 2019 Called To Counsel National Conference Where we sat down with Jonathan D. Holmes to discuss his heart behind his book, "Counsel for Couples: A Biblical and Practical Guide for Marriage Counseling", and as a pastor and biblical counselor, discusses the need for the local church to have marriage counseling available in the local church. He expresses the urgency for the local church to have a "culture of care" and to promote preventative ministries. This book is unique because it could be used for lay leaders, church leaders, and leadership development...A must-have resource!

This episode is from last year's Association of Biblical Counselors - 2019 Called To Counsel National Conference Where we sat down with Greg Wilson, D.Ed.Min., LPC-S to discusses the nature and scope of “Domestic Violence”, providing a working definition for domestic violence and presents an educational glimpse into the world of a common perpetrator and consequent victim, and provides a fresh perspective on how the church needs to understand the delicacy of domestic abuse in the local church.

In this episode, the hosts, Mike, Shauna, and Jeremy continue their "Heart of the Matter" series with the "Put On" tool of helping counselee's put on godly thoughts, feelings, and actions. The heart of man is always worshiping, the heart is never idle. This new ABC resource helps counselee's understand their responsibility of putting on godly thoughts, feelings, and actions in the same way that they take off ungodly thoughts, feelings, and actions.

This episode was from last year's ABC Conference - 2019 Called To Counsel National Conference - and in this episode, the hosts, Mike, Shauna, and Jeremy interview Curtis Solomon, Executive Director for The Biblical Counseling Coalition. Curtis takes time to Demystify PTSD by removing the D out of it. It’s not an abnormal reaction to normal life, but it’s really a normal response to really extreme and difficult circumstances. PTSD is severely misunderstood, and in this episode, Curtis offers a robust understanding of the nature and scope of PTSD. And given the social climate in our culture right now, consequently, the probability of traumatic stress is quite high.

In this episode, the hosts, Mike, Shauna, and Jeremy answer questions that have come in via email(topics@speakthetruth.org)and the website(speakthetruth.org). They discuss the question received about grief (grieving the loss of a child or a child losing a parent), Rejection, Can a woman lead the vision of a church launching and cultivating a counseling ministry within the church(from EP.55 W/Guest Lee Lewis), and respond to some feedback we received regarding EMDR. If you'd like us to answer a question regarding a topic, etc. please email us at topics@speakthetruth.org or visit our web page www.speakthetruth.org and use the widget, "lets chat" to ask us a question or reach out to us.

Given the state of our country right now, all the suffering happening through deathly virus', injustice, rioting as a retaliation, etc., we wanted to share our podcast with Paul Tripp from last year's ABC National Called To Counsel Conference about the hope of the Gospel through suffering. Paul Tripp discusses his heart behind his recent book release on suffering, “Suffering: gospel hope when life doesn’t make sense”, which was largely due to his own recent experiences in suffering through an acute renal failure. Listen as Paul shares the nature of suffering and our response to it.

This episode was from a year ago when we were at The 2019 "Called to Counsel" Conference interviewing Lee Lewis, pastor, and biblical counselor - discussing the nature of depression and biblically responsive ways to identify it and confront it. Our hosts and special guest provide a brief contrast on how our culture responds to depression and how the local church can respond to it and provide gospel hope through community; learning from depression and rightly orienting our hearts in the place of sorrow.

In this episode, the hosts, Mike, Shauna, and Jeremy discuss EMDR Therapy with Author and Biblical Counselor, Eliza Huie. Eliza is clinically trained in EMDR with years of biblical counseling and provides a great introduction into what is EMDR Therapy, who should receive it, if it's safe, and ultimately for the sake of the Christian community, is it biblical. She discusses a biblical-connected approach to EMDR and its process and how to get started.

In this episode, the hosts, Mike, Shauna, and Jeremy discuss ABC's assessments; how they are built and how they can be utilized in real-time with clients. Also, these assessments can be used in the church context as well for leadership development. There are several categories of assessments, for example, marriage, intimacy, depression, anger, anxiety, money, domestic abuse, substance abuse, parenting, and a myriad of others. They talk about how they use these assessments and give testimony to how they strengthen data-gathering for the counselor and ultimately making it more productive for the clients. Remember to email us at: topics@speakthetruth.org or engage with us on our website - www.speakthetruth.org

In this episode, the hosts, Mike, Shauna, and Jeremy discuss Stuart Scott's new book, "31 Ways to be A One Another Christian" and how it can be used in the counseling room to the community groups in the local church. Also, how it can be used as a leadership development tool for helping community group leaders be more intentional in their relational engagements. This is a great resource! Please remember to email us at topics@speakthetruth.org for anything you'd like us to address, discuss, etc. Also, you can engage with us on our website at www.speakthetruth.org

In this episode, the hosts, Mike, Shauna, and Jeremy discuss a new counseling resource tool from ABC that is designed to help facilitate a process with counselees to help with the opportunity of examining their hearts drawn from Psalm 26:2. This tool uses a heart log for the counselee to help capture and identify where there heart was in a situation to expose deeper rooted issues and learn how to "Put off" deceptive thoughts, desires, and habits. This tool can be used immediately with counselees; they interact with the process and can be used as homework.

In this episode, the hosts, Mike & Shauna and special guest, Lee Lewis, talk about Lee's partnering organization - Soulcare Consulting. Soulcare Consulting specializes in helping local churches build a culture of soul care instead of a side avenue of care. They Provide Training, Resources, and Consulting for Church Leaders Who Want To Lead Healthy. A must-listen for pastors and lay leaders who want to implement a culture of soul care from the informal moments of the body to formal moments - from one to one discipleship to healthy community groups.

In this episode, the hosts, Mike, Shauna, and Jeremy discuss how God uses times like these to strengthen our faith. They discuss the reality of Hebrews Chapter 12 being worked out through our current pandemic situation and the universal reality of how God grows our faith through hardship...not resting in our ability to do things in our own strength which only produces pride. Be encouraged that God doesn't waste our hardships - they are not arbitrary matters, but a means to produce more faith in God - the true object of our faith. Remember to email us any topics you'd like us to address and discuss at topics@speakthetruth.net

In this episode, the hosts, Mike, Shauna, and Jeremy continue their discussion around the COVID - 19 situations and our natural responses of fear and anxiety, but God's Word has a three-fold plan to help cast out that fear and anxiety and replace it with praying, thinking biblically, and living biblically in this chaotic time.

In this episode, the hosts, Mike, Shauna, and Jeremy discuss the impact of COVID-19 and how it's modified what our normal is and how God uses these times to reveal things to us about our fears and anxieties. They take a look at some key scriptures to demonstrate the need for biblical faith in order to cast out the paralyzing fears and anxious thoughts that prevail if we don't reorient the obeject of our faith.

In this episode, the hosts, Mike, Shauna, and Jeremy discuss the DSM criteria for Paranoid Personality Disorder and the biblical explanations associated with these symptomologies. They help develop a category for the believers who may feel overwhelmed with those in their influence who have maybe been given this label and not sure how to minister to them. *****Reminder: WE ARE NOT recording this podcast in order to diagnose anyone who exhibits these symptomologies***** Due to the Covid -19 pandemic, "The 2020 Called to Counsel Conference" has been rescheduled to September 10th through the 12th. This year's theme and plenary sessions will be situated in the words of Jesus when he proclaimed, "the kingdom of God is at hand." The tracks for this year will include an introduction to biblical counseling, Depression, Domestic Abuse, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, anxiety, and Marriage. Register now at: www.calledtocounsel.com