Counseling Troubled Dreams on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors,

where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people face.

This week on the podcast, I have with me Keith Evans.

He's assistant professor of biblical counseling at the Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina.

He's an ordained pastor, and Keith has been teaching at the seminary level since 2018,

has been in pastoral ministry since 2011. He's married to Melissa,

and they have four daughters. And currently, Keith is completing his PhD in biblical counseling

at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. And Keith, grateful for you,

brother, and your work and really excited about your new role there at RTS

Charlotte. And maybe at some point we can talk about that, but really grateful for your transition

there. Welcome to the podcast, looking forward to our time today. Thank you so much. Glad to be here.

Today we're going to talk about troubled dreams. I have people ask questions. What do we do about

that? Are we responsible for the things that we dream

morally? How do we handle these types of situations? Should I confess these types of things, right? So these

are questions that lots of people have. As we think about counseling biblically, do we deal with these

types of issues with our people? How do we stay away from Freudian dream

interpretation, right? Those sorts of things. So I just want you to sort of dive in at the beginning.

How do we handle these types of troubled dreams? Because there are ditches sort of on both sides

where we dismiss them. Ah, this is meaningless. It doesn't mean anything versus, you know, you get into

Freudian dream type of analysis, interpretation, and that sort of thing. So what do we mean when

we talk about these troubled dreams and then how do we start to discuss these? Yeah, absolutely. Just

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