15:14 - Biblical Counseling Coalition

Dr. Mike Emlet

Dr. Mike Emlet is a BCC Council Member and faculty member at CCEF (Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation). He holds an MD from the University of Pennsylvania and an MDiv from Westminster Theological Seminary. He worked as a family physician for over ten years before joining CCEF. Mike has counseled for many years and is the author of CrossTalk: Where Life and Scripture Meet, which explores the use of Scripture in counseling, Descriptions and Prescriptions: A Biblical Perspective on Psychiatric Diagnoses and Medications, and most recently Saints, Sufferers, and Sinners: Loving Others as God Loves Us. Mike is married to Jody, and they have two children. He is active in his urban church and enjoys gardening, camping, and creating wheel-thrown pottery. Mike joins us for this episode of 15:14 to tell us more about his upbringing, how he came to faith, his journey into biblical counseling, and lessons learned from his counseling experience.

This episode is sponsored in part by CCEF’s National Conference, Modern Problems: Caring for Souls in the 21st Century.

Margy Tripp

Margy Tripp is an author, biblical counselor, teacher, and speaker. She and her husband, Tedd Tripp, minister alongside one another through Shepherding the Heart Ministries. Margy joins us for this episode of 15:14 to discuss her most recent book It’s Not Too Late: Restoring Broken Relationships with Teenage and Adult Children. The publisher, Shepherd Press, is offering a special 30% discount to our listeners. Simply go to the Shepherd Press website and enter the code TOOLATE at check out for 30% off your purchase of It’s Not Too Late.

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Mighty Oaks Foundation and Afghanistan

The recent turmoil in Afghanistan has brought a great deal of attention and concern. Our primary concern is for the people there who are suffering persecution and death under the hands of the Taliban as they take over that country. Another group of people that also deserve our prayers, concern, and care are the men and women who served in the Armed Forces for the last two decades in Afghanistan. Jeremy Stalnecker, Executive Director of the Mighty Oaks Foundation, joins me today to talk about some of the soul care needs of our veterans and military members who are asking significant questions in the midst of this crisis. Jeremy also shares about some special efforts that have begun by a coalition of NGO’s including Mighty Oaks to help get U.S. citizens and those Afghans who helped allied forces out of Afghanistan. You can support these efforts with prayer and financial donations. Find out more at saveourallies.org.

Joy Forrest (Rebroadcast)

Joy Forrest, founder of Called to Peace Ministries, joins Curtis on this episode of 15:14 to discuss the value of a team approach when counseling individuals or couples involved in domestic violence. You can find out more about Called to Peace Ministries at their website https://www.calledtopeace.org/.

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Rick Horne (Rebroadcast)

Rick Horne joins Curtis in this episode of 15:14 to discuss two of his books, Get Outta My Face!: How to Reach Angry, Unmotivated Teens with Biblical Counsel and Get Offa My Case!: Godly Parenting of an Angry Teen. These excellent resources are designed to help parents, teachers, youth ministers, and all those who work with teens to draw out what is in their hearts in order to apply biblical truth to their lives.

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Ellen Dykas

Ellen Dykas is a new BCC Council Member and the Women’s Ministry Coordinator for Harvest USA. She focuses on discipling women who struggle with sexual and relational sins in their own lives, as well as women who are impacted by the sexual sins of their spouses or others. Ellen has authored Sexual Sanity for Women: Healing from Sexual & Relational Brokenness, Sexual Faithfulness: Gospel-Infused, Practical Discipleship for Women, Your Dating Relationship and Your Sexual Past: How Much to Share, and most recently, a 31-day devotional, Toxic Relationships: Taking Refuge in Christ.

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Global Summit 2016 David Powlison

The first ever Biblical Counseling Global Summit was held in 2016. Today’s episode of 15:14 is a keynote address by Dr. David Powlison at that conference. You can rent or purchase the video content from that Global Summit here on the BCC Vimeo channel.

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Soul Care for Missionaries

In this episode of 15:14 we are joined by BCC Council Member Dr. Andrew Rogers who serves as the Executive Director for Overseas Instruction in Counseling (OIC) and Sara Shannon the OIC Missionary Soul Care Coordinator. They discuss the need missionaries have for soul care in their own lives. This aspect of support to missionaries is often overlooked and we want that to change. There are many ways this care can be provided: through sending churches, through agency member care, or through individual biblical counselors connecting with missionaries. OIC is helping to coordinate a network of biblical counselors who donate time to provide soul care to missionaries overseas. We encourage you to prayerfully consider joining this network.

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Matt Joiner (Rebroadcast)

Matt Joiner is the Associate Pastor at Redeemer Church (formerly Harvest Bible Chapel) in Rockford, IL. He joins us today to discuss counseling children, youth, and families. One of the key topics in this interview is the incorporation of biblical counseling in the discipleship of each generation within the local church. Matt and Curtis also discuss the importance of preventative counsel with the goal of preparing our children for life by grounding them in the Word of God and teaching them to use the Bible as their primary resource to answer life's difficult questions.

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Jason Kovacs

Jason Kovacs is a BCC Council Member and Board Member of the Canadian Biblical Counseling Coalition. Currently, Jason serves as Executive Director of Gospel Care Collective, where he counsels, trains others in biblical counseling, and consults churches, pastors, and biblical counseling ministries on various topics. Jason’s wife, Shawnda, also works with Gospel Care Collective. They have been married for 18 years and have five children. In this episode of 15:14, Jason shares about life growing up in Canada, his 18 years of ministry in the United States, how the Lord brought him to faith through his own evangelistic efforts, and much more.

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