TIL 392: Confession in Counseling (feat. Joel Wood)
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
1. The role confession plays in counseling.
2. The importance of vertical and horizontal confession.
3. What to do when you are under conviction of sin.
4. The relationship between confession and repentance
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| 0:00.0 | Confession in Counseling on this edition of Truth and Love. |
| 0:11.2 | I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, |
| 0:17.1 | where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people face. |
| 0:22.1 | Today I am so thrilled to have with us, Joel Wood. He's the senior pastor of New Life Presbyterian |
| 0:28.0 | Church of La Mesa, California. He holds a BA from Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, the M.Div and |
| 0:34.1 | D. Men degrees from RPTS in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. And he's also an ACBC fellow. |
| 0:41.0 | He's married to Emily for 20 years. They have a daughter and son-in-law who live in Maryland. |
| 0:46.2 | And he has a son attending Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. And he has three kids at home. |
| 0:52.9 | Joel operates VeritySoul.Care. |
| 0:56.1 | He's an adjunct professor at city seminary in Sacramento, California, a Westminster |
| 1:00.8 | Seminary in Philadelphia, and he also trains with OIC, and they train pastors and lay |
| 1:07.0 | people in seminarians and biblical counseling around the world. |
| 1:10.1 | He's also one-fourth of the Jerusalem Chamber podcast for anyone interested in dabbling in the |
| 1:15.4 | Westminster Confessions Theology. |
| 1:17.9 | Joel, I'm sure we're going to talk about Westminster Confession, at least at some point in this podcast. |
| 1:22.2 | But our task today is to talk about confession in counseling. |
| 1:26.5 | So, brother, welcome to the podcast. So grateful |
| 1:28.3 | you're willing to help us tackle this topic. Thanks. Great to be here. Now, let's jump right |
| 1:32.7 | into it. I want to talk specifically about this issue of confession. We sometimes, I think, |
| 1:37.8 | struggle with the idea of confession, what it means, how we help people and lead people toward or in the direction of |
| 1:45.9 | confession. That certainly is wrapped into this idea of repentance, calling people to repentance. |
| 1:51.6 | Those are things that we shouldn't shy away from, primarily because the Bible emphasizes |
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