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. Welcome back to Transform.

My name is Dr. Greg Gifford, and we are discussing loneliness in our last episode.

We were just kind of working through, like, what are the typical patterns of loneliness?

What are we talking about?

I showed you that, you know, according to research, whatever Gallup polls mean to you,

loneliness is a significant factor in American lives. And no matter how digitized we are,

and no matter how connected we are via cell phones, text messages, social media, loneliness is still

prevalent. And in fact, I wonder if this is not the like the

proving ground for this, but I do wonder if our phones are actually making us more lonely and

we're losing communication skills and we're kind of creating this alternate reality. But

loneliness, nevertheless, it's prevalent. And if we just go with 20% according to Gallup or we just think like, hey, this is a common experience, I think most of us could just be candid and say, yeah, I've been lonely at different seasons. So we ended last episode by saying, well, how do you start to turn that corner? And I shared a little bit of how Paul describes his trials in Rome.

So think of the multiple things that Paul has endured.

He was imprisoned in Cessaria for two years.

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