What is? What is? What is? What is biblical counseling?

Biblical counseling will grow you from brokenness to wholeness.

I think what you just said made me look at those scenarios differently.

God replaced all my junk with a beautiful light.

God's really been changing the way that I parent my children.

The most amazing thing is the sufficiency of his word. This is

Transform. And now your host, assistant professor of biblical counseling at the Master's

University and certified biblical counselor, Dr. Greg Gifford. Welcome back to Transform. My name is Dr. Greg Gifford. And today we are talking about tips for

being a godly man, married or single. As you may recall, I did a series about a year ago,

maybe a little bit longer, on characteristics of a man, what makes a man a man and not a woman,

and asking some of those fundamental questions. A listener wrote in and said, hey, Dr. G, can you share just some basic tips for being a godly man? And I don't want to assume it's that easy. It's like, oh, yeah, here's the three things to transform your life. And if you just buy my book for $8.99, you'll be a godly man. I never want it to come across that way. But I also want to give you practical actions, too. Character traits, as we discussed, they're extremely important because that's who you are that will overflow into what you do. Another listener wrote in and said, hey, when is a man not providing for his house? And I thought, well, maybe this is a good place to start. A godly man provides for himself. He eats his own bread, to use the term in

Second Thessalonians 3. If you have a Bible, and I hope that you do, open up with me to 1st

Timothy 5. And I think 1st Timothy 6 is going to have guardrails for you when it comes to being a man who is a provider.

When we say that in, and really in America, in a North American context, or at least in the West, to say that a man is a provider, that often can bring with it different connotations.

Does this mean that I need to earn enough money so that my wife drives a Lamborghini?

Oh, yes, it does. That way I can borrow it. Oh, just kidding. All right. No, I mean, we have different standards of living. Some of us expect vacations and some of us are grateful for them. Some of us expect new cars and

others of us dream of that or would never buy a new car. We see that it's wasteful. You also have

different costs of living. And to live in Los Angeles is not the same thing as to live in Springfield,

Missouri. So when I think of those equations, that does go into what it means as a man to be a provider.

I also look at seasons of life and seasons of life.

Typically as a younger man, you're hustling.

And in your 20s, for most of us,

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