Counseling from biblical narratives 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.

This week on the podcast, I am delighted to have with us, Dr. Keith Palmer.

Keith is a dear friend of mine and has been for several years. He is down in Fort Worth, Texas

area. As a matter of fact, he's an associate pastor at Grace Bible Church in Granbury, Texas.

He helps to lead the CBCD, one of our training centers down in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

Any of you who are down in that area, I would recommend that you go find some training down

there with Keith and several other guys who represent our training center there.

And he's married to Lisa, has three kiddos,

and he's one of our board members and fellows. So in effect, he's sort of one of my bosses. So this

will be a fun conversation as we talk about biblical narratives. And Keith, you know what's interesting

is we talk often in biblical counseling about needing to counsel from the whole of the counsel of God's word.

And sometimes we fail to do that, right? We like to run to the imperative passages. We like to

run to the promises of God. And we often forget that much of the Bible is written in narrative

form. And the scriptures tell us that it's for our instruction as well.

So I want us to talk through this today about how we use the whole of the counsel of God,

particularly the narratives.

And how do we counsel from the narrative?

So let's start by just saying what in the world are we talking about relative to narratives in scripture?

Yeah, thanks, Dale. It's great to be with you as always. Yeah, you know, if you think about it,

not only does the Bible have a lot of stories in it, the Bible comprehensively is one big story.

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