Should I buy my child an iPhone for Christmas on this edition of Truth and Love?

I'm Heath Lambert, and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, where we seek to provide biblical

solutions for the problems that people face.

Here at ACBC, we believe that the Bible is sufficient for all the problems of life that people

can face. We don't mean medical problems or things of that nature, but we mean

as we struggle to think through the meaningful issues of Christian living, we believe that the Bible

provides all of the answers for those questions that we address. That's why the subtitle of our

podcast is providing biblical solutions for the problems that people face.

Sometimes in the Bible, we don't have explicit language answering our complex questions with an easy

answer. God did not give us a Bible that is exhaustively sufficient that tells us every single detail about everything we'd like to know.

He gave us instead a Bible that is comprehensively sufficient. It tells us all the kinds of things

that we need to know to think through the issues that we struggle with. The reason he did that

is important to know, because we might like,

in one sense, the easier approach of having exhaustive answers for everything. But

exhaustive answers aren't possible because only the mind of God is an exhaustive and

authoritative resource. Every other resource either has to be comprehensive or not.

And the comprehensive nature of the sufficiency of Scripture is a benefit for other reasons, too.

Number one, it challenges us to think through complicated issues and to renew our mind,

according to scripture in that way, rather than just getting easy answers.

We also learn as we study a Bible that is comprehensively sufficient rather than exhaustively so

that God has made us free in some areas. There are some matters about which God has not

legislated. Some matters are crystal clear. We ought not to commit

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