biblical counseling and youth ministry 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, I am joined with Pastor Adam Tyson, who's from the wonderful state of Georgia.

After attending medical school, he became a physician's assistant and worked in cardiovascular

and thoracic surgery in Savannah for four years.

While serving in his local church, he felt an overwhelming desire to pursue

the glory of God through theological training and the opportunity to serve the Lord in full-time

ministry. Adams had the privilege of attending the master's seminary for both an MDiv and a D. Men degree.

He served as an associate pastor of student ministries and outreach at a church in Texas for seven

and a half years,

and he has passion for expository preaching and biblical counseling,

worldwide missions, and reaching the community of Santa Clarita,

had his current pastorate at Placereida Bible Church.

Adam serves as adjunct professor in biblical counseling department at Master's University.

He and his lovely wife,

Lisa, have been blessed with five children. Adam, I'm so grateful that you're here. And talking about this issue, sometimes we think about counseling as more adult issues that we're dealing with or

even child issues. Sometimes this window in between of dealing with youth gets left out in some of the

discussion. And I think it's important. I love the way that you're couching some of this as we talk

about biblical counseling and youth ministry. We should think about this through the church

and how we deal with young people. So I just want to start here. First of all, welcome. I'm so

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