emotional abuse 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. I am excited to announce that the 2018 annual conference for the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors is going to be on the topic of abuse. We're calling it light in the darkness,

biblical counseling, and abuse. And that conference is going to be on October 1st, 2nd, and 3rd of

2018 in Fort Worth, Texas. At ACBC, we want to take this problem of abuse head on, take it as seriously as it needs

to be taken, and we want to bring to bear all the resources that Scripture has to say about this

very, very important and very challenging topic. One of the most challenging topics under the big

banner of abuse is the topic of emotional abuse.

We want to be very careful to understand this topic of emotional abuse from the standpoint of

scripture. And I am thrilled that joining us on the podcast this week is Timothy Pazma, who is a fellow with ACBC, a board member of ACBC,

a pastor in Ohio, and is going to be one of our general session speakers at that conference,

and he's giving his general session talk on the topic of emotional abuse.

Timothy, we're glad that you're here with us today.

Thank you. And I want to ask you about this topic of emotional abuse. Timothy, we're glad that you're here with us today. Thank you.

And I want to ask you about this topic of emotional abuse.

What is it?

And how is it different from other kinds of abuse?

Physical abuse, verbal abuse?

Well, let's start with the last part of that question.

It's different because there may be no bruises left.

It's not a violent, physically violent sort of thing. It's not, it's not something that you can say,

look, he hit me and I've got the bruises to show it.

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