The burden to counsel well can lie heavy on our minds and hearts. No one knows that better than Pastor Tim Pasma.

He understands your world as Tim is the Senior Pastor of about 130 people at LaRue Baptist Church in LaRue, OH. Tim is also an ACBC Fellow and Board Member, author, and speaker.

In this episode, you’ll hear some of the areas counselors are most likely to make mistakes, the key difference between teaching and counseling, encouragement for those worried about making a mistake in counseling, and much more.

Listen in! Show Notes: bcmnational.org/tim-pasma-51

Have you ever wondered what happens when you send your people to a three-day intensive? What did they learn? Was it true to Scripture? How can you build on what they achieved there?

This is the topic we are covering today, along with Ben and Ailey Holman, and Kris and Amanda Mettlemen, who recently attended a retreat at Twelve Stones. These four are close friends, and they also share a counselee and counsel advocate couple relationship.

In this episode, you’ll learn what is involved in a retreat, what an advocate couple is, how churches can effectively use partnership ministries, and much more.

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Show Notes: bcmnational.org/advocate-couple-50

As pastors, we recognize our sacred calling to teach and preach God’s Word to our flock. But one of the questions we’ve been pondering is that of our call to counsel and care for them as well.

How does or should the care of souls within the local church impact our preaching? Does the dual focus on counseling and teaching have an impact, positive or negative, on either role? Can you only effectively be one or the other?

I am delighted to introduce you to a guest who has the answers to all these questions and more. Scott Gnuse is the teaching and leadership pastor at New Castle Bible Church in Mackinaw, IL.

In this episode, Scott shares how these two roles affect each other, why we should be careful not to neglect the ministry of prayer, our responsibility to genuinely care for people, and much more.

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Show Notes: bcmnational.org/scott-gnuse-49

There has been a biblical counseling movement going on for about 60 years now and it’s still moving! We are so excited to be able to share with you not only what is going on inside our country, but internationally as well.

Joining for this conversation is Dr. Andrew Rogers. He is the Executive Director of Overseas Instruction in Counseling at BCM Worldwide, a ministry devoted to training biblical counseling trainers around the world.

In this episode, Andrew shares what remains consistent across all countries and cultures, some of the issues the international church is facing, encouragement for your church and counseling ministry today, and much more.

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Show Notes: bcmnational.org/andrew-rogers-48

Recently, we’ve seen more terms like “clinically-informed” and “trauma-informed” emerge in the counseling world. How are we to tell what is in line with biblical counseling and what isn’t? Many of these movements are more syncretistic in nature.

To help us understand more about the new arguments coming out and how we should respond as biblical counselors is Dr. Heath Lambert. He is the Senior Pastor at First Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Florida and he previously served as the Executive Director of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors (ACBC)

In this episode, Heath discusses how some will use biblical truths to smuggle in lies, current issues facing the biblical counseling movement, the importance of firmly establishing the sufficiency of Scripture, and much more.

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Show Notes: bcmnational.org/heath-lambert-47

Have you ever felt burnt out? After a long day of vocational ministry, you return home but you can’t stop worrying and thinking about all the people under your care. Perhaps you are wondering how you will manage to keep pastoring in the midst of this crazy world.

These thoughts are quite common among church leadership and burnout is a far more common occurrence than ever before. Barna reported in 2022 that a staggering 42% of pastors said they were considering leaving their jobs, which Barna refers to as a “burnout epidemic.”

This is why I am honored to welcome someone who has spoken on the topic of burnout and stress, Dr. Rob Green. Rob has been a member of the Faith Church staff for 20 years and his responsibilities include oversight of the Faith Biblical Counseling Ministry and teaching New Testament at Faith Bible Seminary.

In this episode, Rob shares the different types of burnout, how to discern when burnout is an issue of rest or obedience, the challenges of vocational ministry, and much more.

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Show Notes: bcmnational.org/rob-green-46

In our last episode, Kari Gross shared her personal testimony and the role SoulCare™ has played in her life. And now, we have the pleasure of welcoming her daughter, Noelle Baffa, for this follow-up conversation.

Following Jesus and allowing that to permeate through every aspect of your life doesn’t just change a person; it also changes their home, how they parent, and how they go through life. It shapes the culture of our home and how we disciple our children.

In this episode, Noelle shares how Kari’s discipleship helped shape her identity and purpose, the ways that SoulCare™ impacted how she was instructed as a child, practical ways for addressing anxiety from her experience, and much more.

Show Notes: bcmnational.org/noelle-baffa-45

What do we do at BCM, and why does it even matter? This is the question Kari Gross is going to help us answer in this conversation.

At BCM, we firmly believe people should be able to go to their local church and receive help when they face great suffering, great sin, and the everyday trials of life that they cannot seem to handle.

It is our mission to assist churches in creating an environment, a culture of biblical SoulCare™, and weave counseling into the DNA and daily life of their church.

In this episode, Kari shares more about her personal counseling experience, what the core byproduct of any counseling is, why biblical counseling is superior, and much more.

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Show Notes: bcmnational.org/kari-gross-44