2023: Living and Active

This item includes audio from all of the 2023 Annual Conference Plenary & Breakout Sessions.

Session titles below:

Plenary 1 - Dale Johnson - The Folly of Fig Leaves
Plenary 2 - Ernie Baker - The Insufficiency of Psychological Sanctification
Plenary 3 - Abner Chou - Common Grace and the Sufficiency of Scripture
Plenary 4 - H.B. Charles - The Sufficiency of God's Word
Plenary 5 - Terry Enns - Are You Now Being Perfected by the Flesh
Plenary 6 - Rick Holland - Our Sufficiency in Christ

Breakout sessions

Brad Bigney - Helping Your Counselee to Confess But Not Obsess Over Their Sin
Lisa Anderson - Emotions of a Sexual Crime Victim and God's Love
Marshall Adkins - A Biblical Evaluation of Emotionally Focused Therapy
Tom Sugimura - The Old Testament as Literature
Keith Evans - Resisting Temptation, Psalm 63
Ernie Baker - What is Trauma Informed Counseling?
Sean Perron - Jesus as the Model Counselor in the Gospel of John
Jim Fain - "Ought-ness" vs. "Is-ness": Is Natural Revelation and Common Grace Enough?
Shelbi Cullen - Looking Up! Counsel For Troubled Souls from Psalm 37:1-11
Cheryl Bell - Simple Exegesis: How to Meditate on Scripture with Word Studies
Johanna Pressley - Are psychologically-derived terminologies and therapies for those on the autism spectrum a Trojan horse? Should you open the door?
Omri Miles - Clearly Sufficient: the Inseparability of Scripture's Perspicuity and Sufficiency for Counseling
John Babler - Using Biblical Narratives in Counseling
Rhenn Cherry - A Biblical Critique of EMDR Therapy
Greg Gifford - Mind v. Brain: Cultural Confusion, A Mental Health Epidemic, and What the Bible Says
Josh Zeichik - Identifying & Responding to Sinful Pastoral Leadership
Bret Capranica - Transitioning a Church to Biblical Counseling
Eric Abisror - Soul Care in Missionary Care in the Local Church
Kevin Carson - Counsel the Word: The Process from the Text to the Counselee
Robert Jones - Resting Our Hearts in God Alone: Applying Psalm 62 to People Facing Affliction
Glenn Dunn - Counseling the Soul Who Refuses to Be Comforted
Seth Leeman - A Critique of the Sexual/Gender Identity Construct
Charles Hodges MD - Medicine, Common Grace, and Sufficiency:
Howard Eyrich - Biblical Counselor's Guide to Counseling Theories
JOSHUA GREINER - The Values and Qualities of Good Homework
Matt Mumma - Relationship Between Sufficiency and Authority of Scripture
Deborah Dewart - Lawyers and Pastors Tackling Legal Issues Together (PANEL)
Brad Brandt - “O My Soul: The Necessity of Talking to Ourselves”
Andrew Rogers - When Application Grows Out of Control
Lou Priolo - Counseling Lonely People
Heath Lambert - The Sufficiency of Scripture and The Threat of Common Grace
Joel Wood - Confession of Sin in the Counseling Office
Samuel Stephens - Sam Stephens - How to become a certified Training Center
Keith Palmer - Finding God in Difficult Relationships (Psalm 55)
Scott Mehl - The Three Kinds of Anxiety: Ungodly Fear, Godly Concern, and Habitual Anxiety
Nicolas Ellen - Understanding The Four Categories of Fear
Jacob Elwart - A Little Bit of Truth for a Little Bit of Life
Jim Newheiser - The place of common grace wisdom in counseling technique
Javan Payne - Viewing Trust-Based Relational Intervention Through a Biblical Lens
Terry Enns - “Take a Letter: Using the Epistles Biblically in Biblical Counseling”
George Thomas (Tom) Wells - The Bible is sufficient! … even for financial problems
Abby Bearden - Abby Bearden - How to Become ACBC Certified
Tim Bryant - Self Esteem Vs. Union with Christ: (Finding Sufficiency through Humility)
Timothy Pasma - Psychedelics: The New Frontier in Counseling
John Street - Sufficient Sanctification: Counseling Serious Problems Only from Scripture
Brian Sayers - How to Sleep in Distress - Psalm 4
Emily Stahly - Assessing the Duluth Model
Gabe Powell - The Nature of Man and Sufficiency of Scripture
Mark Shaw - A Critique of Celebrate Recovery
John St. Pierre - Counseling from Proverbs with Accuracy and Power
Brent Osterberg - Scrupulosity: Religious OCD
Caroline Newheiser - Helping Women Who Have Eating Disorders
Jim Koerber - Resources for Rightly Handling the Word of Truth
Ken Schultz - Being a Biblical Counselor Who Accurately Interprets and Applies Scripture
Randy Patten - What Makes Biblical Counseling Unique?
Josh Weidmann - Expository Conversations
Jeremy Pray - Psalm 32 - On Confession and Repentance
Tom Patton - Biblical Counseling and Spiritual Warfare
Jim Newheiser - The Abuse Pendulum -- Navigating Current Controversies about Abuse
George Sanders - Are Antidepressants Good for Anything?
Aaron Brewster - A Biblical Response to Emotion Coaching
Donn Arms - An Overview of the Life and Ministries of Jay E Adams
Martha Peace - But I Have A Chemical Imbalance
Shannon McCoy - The Crisis of Prayerlessness: Teaching Counselees How to Pray About Their Problems
Rush Witt - A Longing to Escape: How the Psalms Identify and Help the Common Urge to Escape Hardship
Bill Slattery - Psalms of Lament
Kelli Dionne - Counseling children who fear
Joel Wood - Confronting the Broadness of Biblical Counseling: Noutheteo throughout the Scripture
Adam Tyson - Why We Counsel from the Bible Alone
Mark Mann - Discovering the Origin of All Man’s Problems
Todd Sorrell - Christian or Secular College? Making a Biblically Wise Choice
Lucas Pace - Training a Counselee to Study Scripture
Lilly Park - Applying Scripture for Cross-Cultural Counseling
Lisa Schmidt - Hope for the Depressed from Psalm 42 & 43