Helping counsellees form good 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. Today on the podcast, once again, I am joined by Dr. Greg Gifford.

Greg is the Associate Professor of Biblical Counseling at the Master's University. He received his

Ph.D. from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is an elder at Faith Community Church.

He is a certified member of ACBC, and he recently completed his fellow process,

so now he is a fellow with ACBC as well.

He is married to Amber, and they have two boys, and one on the way.

Praise the Lord.

Really excited about that.

He's released a new book called Heart and Habits, and I want to talk with him further about

this, I think, a very important book. So, Greg, one of the things I want you to do first,

if you can, is just share a little bit about a personal story, the way that some of the ideas

of habits was developed into your heart and the way this idea of habits personally affected you and even the way that you minister.

Okay. Thank you for letting me do this. It's really the privilege of every biblical counselor to be an instructor in habits to a certain degree.

And it's no different in my own experience that really I've been an instructor in

habits for nine, almost 10 years now, as long as I've been counseling.

And what I have found is that when we're assigning homework, a big part of what we do, we're

teaching individuals habit formation and helping them practice godly habits.

It really started to become a parent.

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