Heart and Habits 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 to the problems that people face.

And this week on the podcast, I am grateful to have with us, Dr. Greg Gifford.

Greg holds the PhD degree in biblical counseling from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

He is currently an associate professor of biblical counseling at the Masters University in California,

and he's an elder at his church, Faith Community Church. He's also certified with us at

ACBC for several years, and he is now a fellow of our organization. And he has a recent book

that I want to talk about today.

I'm so delighted to talk about this, the title of the book is Heart and Habits.

And I think this is an important subject as we dive in.

I'm going to let Dr. Gifford describe some of the things from his book.

But that's the title of the new book. So, Greg, if you will,

introduce us to where that title came from and why this is a significant topic for us to talk

about in biblical counseling. Yeah, thank you for having me. Thanks for letting me speak to this.

So it's the title, Heart and Habit is something that came from the content of the book. And I originally

even wanted to divide the book into two parts with the first part being heart and the

second part being habits. The intent is that I wanted to provide a theology of habits that

got it right and got it right by focusing on the heart, the inner person, and also on the outer person or the actions, the habits.

So when heart and habits, as I started writing, heart and habits started to become the theme, that it wasn't just habits and it wasn't just to focus on the heart, that it was this

symbiosis of how your habits affect your heart, and then also how your heart informs the

habits that you should develop. I love that because now we're talking about the person as a

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