You don't put band-aids on cancer and you don't give human wisdom the spiritual issues.

Dr. Tony Evans says human insight won't fix spiritual problems. Only God's word has the power to restore.

His textbook, the Scriptures, is the best tool for healing wounds of the soul. This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the archives of Dr. Tony Evans.

When something's wrong in your body, you go to a doctor. But when the pain is deeper, when it's in your soul, Dr. Evan says there's another kind of help you need.

Today, he explains how the Bible functions as a powerful tool for spiritual counseling,

diagnosing the root causes of our struggles, and guiding us toward healing.

Let's join him as he begins.

Often what you feel may not be the same thing that's wrong.

Your symptom may be simply symptomatic of something much deeper.

So you go to the expert to diagnose, identify, and correct the pain in your body.

That's one type of pain that needs to be fixed.

But a lot of us feel okay in our bodies,

but we are hurting in our souls.

The soul is your unique personhood, your unique personality.

The study of the soul is called psychology. It is the study of the soul, created by God.

The art, the science of psychology, seeks to address soulings.

Pain in the life that needs to be corrected that evidently the person who has the pain

has been unable to correct themselves.

Biblical counseling is when a Christian uses the Word of God as the

foundation for diagnosing and addressing what another person needs to know to bring healing to their

soul. It is amazing what the Bible thinks about itself.

For example, David says in Psalm 119, verse 23, he says, I meditate on your words, and he says,

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