Counseling People affected by Disability 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, once again, I am delighted to have with us,

Paul Touches, who's the senior pastor at Cornerstone Community in Mayfield Heights, Ohio. And Paul's

been around ACBC for quite some time. He's a member, certified member, and a fellow of ours as well.

So Paul gets to do quite a bit of supervision for our members seeking certification.

And I'm so grateful for his ministries.

He's been faithful to pastor, and I love the way he always describes his role as a minister of the word is pastoral first,

and then counseling flows out of that ministry.

And for those of you who are pastors, I encourage you to think through that mentality.

That's a very biblical perspective of shepherding.

And Paul has several books that he's written on those topics.

I'll include some of those in the show notes. But today I want to talk a little bit more specifically about a books that he's written on those topics. I'll include some of those in the show notes.

But today I want to talk a little bit more specifically about a book that he's written recently.

We actually talked about it last week when disability hits home.

It's a book produced by Shepard Press, and I'm delighted that Paul has written this with several contributions from Johnny Erickson Tata.

And last week we talked specifically about

the theology behind the book, the purpose, who Paul is targeting as an audience here.

But I want to bring this into practicality because, you know, it's one thing to have an idea

of what I think to be true theoretically about theology and about an

understanding of suffering and having a view of the image of God and man and the value of a person.

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