Journeys to biblical counseling 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 one of our board members. I'm always delighted to be around.

Pastor Brad Brandt. Pastor Brad loves teaching the Word of God so that people will love and live for

Jesus Christ. He received biblical training from Cedarville University, Grand Rapids Baptist Seminary,

and also Grace Seminary. He received a doctor of ministry there. He's a fellow and a board member

with ACBC. He enjoys woodworking and riding his gold wing with his wife, Sherry. He has two married

daughters. He loves playing in Narnia with his four grandchildren and has served as a pastor at Wheeler'sburg Baptist Church in Ohio since 1987. Brad, it's always good to have you on the podcast. Welcome back, brother.

Thanks, Dale. It's a joy to spend this time together with you. That's always different when we're normally, we're talking about a passage of scripture. we're talking about a counseling issue, we're talking about some other issue related to counseling. I think it's

important that we capture the stories of the Lord's grace in people's lives. And I want to do that

with you today, if we can, just to hear about how you came into the biblical counseling world and

you came to serve even

as a board member and so on. But first I want you to start just a little bit, even from your bio,

your wife, Sherry, a little bit about your family. Tell us a little bit about the man, Brad,

Brandt and things that you enjoy. It's always easier to talk about the word than yourself as

biblical counselors.

We get that.

But I understand our lives are like a window through which we can look to see truth.

And that's true of all of us in my life.

I grew up in a family.

My parents were very moral.

They were both school teachers.

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