Follow this link to listen to my conversation with Eliza Huie and Beth Broom on the Counsel for Life Podcast. We’re talking about my recent book, Anxious about Decisions: Finding Freedom in the Peace of God.
All of the care providers at BRCC strive to live and serve in a biblical manner, but several are specifically titled “biblical counselors.” In one sense, this simply means that our services include providing what the broader society calls spiritual direction and pastoral counseling without all staff members serving in the specific role of local…
2023 has BRCC serving missionaries in new and creative ways. As we develop and provide these services, we’re regularly reminded that the need is great, and understanding and caring wisely for missionaries is worth all the investment we can give. This article by Bradley Bell highlights one of the common burdens these workers carry and…
New article posted on New Growth Press by Michael Gembola at this link.
Blue Ridge Christian Counseling exists to strengthen the care ministries of churches through collaborative counseling and training ministries. We serve in Roanoke and the New River Valley here in Southwest Virginia. Although our staff worships at churches representing several evangelical denominations, we are a ministry of the PCA’s Blue Ridge Presbytery, which means that we…
Gembola CCEF Outline 2021
Some years ago, working on church staff in a multiethnic church, I asked my pastor, “Can you help me get an idea of ways I can avoid putting my foot in my mouth?” He just smiled and said, “Oh, you will put your foot in your mouth.” Of course he was right. In a thousand…
Mike Emlet’s new book, Saints, Sufferers, and Sinners: Loving Others as God Loves Us, has just been released and is being featured in a series of podcasts you can access for free here. CCEF is also hosting a virtual conference for pastors that you can learn more about here. Most of the BRCC staff has…
We recently posted a link to a limited-time, free article by Ed Welch from the Journal of Biblical Counseling, and in it he surveys three popular books on trauma and the body, and he engages them with thoughtful biblical reflections. Today we want to share another limited-time, free resource, on a related topic, this time…
BRCC seeks to be a help and support to those doing church-based ministry, and especially pastoral and lay counselors who often serve on the front lines of bringing the Word of God into the problems of life. Earlier this year we launched our first distance consultation groups, and we have since grown to hosting three…