How to Overcome Paranoid Thinking on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Dale Johnson, 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.

Today, I am thrilled to have Lou Priolo join us on the podcast today.

He is the director of counseling at Valleydale Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama,

and he is the president of Competent to Counsel International Birmingham, Alabama, and he is the president of competent to counsel international.

And Lou, most people are familiar with you and much of your work in the biblical counseling

movement. I know personally, I've benefited from your work, and it is so good to have you here

with us today. Well, thank you, brother.

It's really good to be here.

Now, what we're talking about today is a resource that you have now put into print that I'm very

excited about.

The resources entitled Suspicion, How to Overcome Paranoid Thinking.

And what an intriguing title, even as I think about that title,

so many ways in directions that you could go with that title. It's always intriguing to me to

hear how an author got to the process of writing. So why did you write this particular work?

Well, like with most of the things I write, I try to look for a topic

that people struggle with about which there is nothing or very little written from a biblical

perspective. And so I found myself counseling lots and lots of people, some of whom were warriors,

some of whom were jealous, some of whom struggled with other things, but they were also suspicious.

And there was nothing available that I knew of from the biblical perspective to help people

identify suspicious thinking and certainly to help them go back

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