God's grace through child sexual abuse 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 have with me, Dr. Cheryl Bell. She is the wife of one, the mother of four

and grandmother of four precious grandchildren. Dr. Bell holds a BS in nursing and an MA in

religious education. After raising and educating her children, God called

her to return to school where she completed her Ph.D. in biblical counseling with a minor in

women's studies. Her dissertation addressed the issue of child sexual abuse. She currently serves as

an adjunct professor at Southwestern and Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminaries. She writes and

equips for the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors and the Southern Baptist of Texas

Convention. And she counsels women who are struggling to meet life's challenges. She loves to see

God transform his children's lives by his spirit and through his word in the classroom

and in the counseling room. Cheryl, I'm so

grateful for you spending time with us today. I'm grateful for the things we talked about last week,

and we're going to get a little bit more detailed this week as we talk. So thanks for joining me

again this week. It's my pleasure. Thank you. Now, last week, we walked through a little bit of your

journey to biblical counseling, sort of the 30,000-foot view.

And it's always interesting to me to hear the providence of our Lord.

All of our stories are similar in proclaiming the grace of God, but they're very distinct in the ways in which God uses certain things that are very specific to our own lives. And I want to

talk a little bit more today. We've titled this God's grace through child sexual abuse.

That's certainly a part of your past. I've heard you talk about that frequently. I think it's a

means that the Lord has really gifted you to speak in such a way very strongly about the scripture

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