Speak The Truth

In this episode, the hosts, Michael & Shauna take Speak The Truth on the road to Salem, OR at Salem Heights Church, and sit with special guests, Justin Greene, Lead Pastor, and Carl Chica, Pastor of Pastoral Care & Counseling for their 1st Regional Made To Minister Conference on “An Introduction To Biblical Counseling”. Biblical Counseling in a heavily secular culture; launching, cultivating, and sustaining biblical counseling in a secularly dominated culture - how the gospel is advancing. Want us to discuss a particular topic or issue, please email us at, topics@speakthetruth.net

In this episode, 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.

In this episode, the hosts, Shauna & Michael and their guest host, Ronnies Mills, continue their conversation of being in leadership in ministry and focusing on the assignment that the LORD has given with God’s people - operating in that fear versus falling prey to the fear of the people. This is an encouragement for the calling.

In this episode, the hosts, Mike & Shauna, are joined in studio with special guest, 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.

In this episode, the hosts focus on a scriptural focus in engaging with Andy; how they would introduce the topic of anger with Andy, biblically. Introduce the topic of anger biblically, does Andy understand the nature of his anger, does it find its origin with his desires vs. God’s truth?

In this episode, the hosts work through another case study, Angry Andy and his perspective on life. In reading a summary of Andy's current life and highlights of how he grew up, the hosts discuss some questions they'd ask Andy to gather sufficient data in order to speak into what Andy thinks his problems are and why he seems to be angry the majority of the time....Please remember to email us topics you'd like the hosts to address or discuss at TOPICS@SPEAKTHETRUTH.ORG

In this episode, the hosts consider an appropriate application of the Sabbath towards self-care. Has there been sufficient discussion in evangelicalism towards the nature and scope of the sabbath, do many people truly understand the implications of the sabbath theologically and responsively? Remember to email topics@speakthetruth.org if you want the host to discuss a specific topic or issue.

In this episode, the hosts discuss the importance of planning and establishing a self-care plan to prevent burnout in ministry at large, and more specifically, in biblical counseling. Establishing a rhythm of rest will provide a sustainable pathway for effective ministry and a Christ-filled soul.

In this episode, the hosts wrap up the case study by providing some theoretically practical homework ideas for the couple struggling in their marriage with sex. They provide a biblical schema for reorienting the spouses' thought process' towards one another in a biblical context. And then conclude, as counselors, how we can use these general schema's for homework to those who struggle within their marriages.

In this episode, the hosts work through a marital case study that focuses’ on a marriage struggling with sexual tensions and struggling to communicate their desire-laden dispositions to one another in a productive manner. Listen as the hosts read through the case study, and begin to ask questions to gather data towards the root of their sexual problems.

In this episode, the hosts discuss the popularly cultured disposition of "Self-forgiveness", can you forgive yourself? Is there a biblical category for this idea? People who use this statement are truly going through something, but does the statement articulate what the person is really experiencing?

In this episode, the hosts discuss “how to’s” concerning homework for counselee’s, and the importance of client-specific homework based on the nature and scope of the person; their situation and personality and their engagement with scripture. Viewing scripture as a “heart-exposer” and engaging at that level with counseling.

In this episode, the hosts discuss cultivating some counseling methods with the analogy of a farmer, which as biblical counselors we're taking God's Word and sowing it with our counselee's, and the importance of being encouraged through engaging our peers with prayer, and God's Word.

After discussing youth camp and the way “Gen.Z” is engaging with Gospel truth, the hosts get into the ever relevant topic of the church and counseling, and how the church needs to take back counseling as the primary soul care provider.

Jeremy and the hosts define and explain the new heart and war of a biblical anthropology that is driven by the work of the Holy Spirit. This work is set on cultivating the new man, which is being made after his creator for God’s glory.

The host's continue to work through ch. 9 of Jeremy's book, biblical counseling basics, to establish a biblical anthropology and draw stark differences of the humanist view and their lack of proper categories for a robust understanding of anthropology.

In this episode, Jeremy and the hosts, establish a humanistic and biblical worldview on anthropology and their respective differences and implications on academia in the field of psychology and its monumental consequences on the culture. Then, they begin to draw sharp contrast with respect to a biblical worldview on anthropology.

In this bonus episode, the hosts discuss a prevalent christianese phrase, “The Holy Spirit is a gentleman”, he won’t impose himself when believers aren’t ready, or something to this effect. Is this theologically accurate? Why do people resist a big God theology? Why are so many believers still human-centric?

Mike, Shauna, and Jeremy finish the series, "God & counseling", God the Holy Spirit: our comforter and counselor. What the Father purposed, God the Son accomplished on the cross becoming our propitiation, and now the Holy Spirit applies all that Christ accomplished. In other words, the third person of the trinity, the Holy Spirit, has claimed the terrain of human flourishing, it's His work. And He is more committed to the process of change than we can control; His timing, His process, His work.

Our co-host, Jeremy launches right into a question that speaks to the tensions that exist within the christian community with psychology and theology. Eric provides a robust response that captures the reality of differing worldview’s within psychology, but provides a persuasive wholistic response for Christians to do their research and take back psychology. Faith and science are not opposed to one another. However, psychology needs to be taken back by rendering it into biblical categories instead of humanistic categories - a must listen!