TIL 500: Honoring our Heritage (feat. Howard Eyrich)
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
1. Favorite Story in early training with Jay Adams
2. What were the early days of NANC/ACBC like?
3. What have been some areas of growth over the years in biblical counseling and ACBC?
4. What are some ways that we can grow in the biblical counseling movement?
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| 0:00.0 | honoring our heritage on this edition of Truth and Love. |
| 0:11.4 | I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, |
| 0:16.5 | where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people face. |
| 0:20.9 | This week on the podcast, I have with me, Dr. Howard Irick. |
| 0:24.5 | He's a retired pastor of counseling at Briarwood Presbyterian Church. |
| 0:28.2 | He currently serves as director of the D. Men in Biblical Counseling at Birmingham Theological Seminary, |
| 0:33.4 | and he's a professor for Master's University of Divinity. |
| 0:36.9 | He's also an ACBC fellow and an academy member. |
| 0:39.7 | He has education from Bob Jones, achieved his BA there at Bob Jones. |
| 0:45.0 | He has an ED from Faith Theological Seminary, a THM from Dallas Theological Seminary, a D-Men from Western Theological Seminary. |
| 0:52.7 | He's done PhD studies at California Coast University, |
| 0:55.9 | and he's done postdoctoral studies in gerontology at the University of Georgia. Howard is so good |
| 1:02.2 | to have you here on this 500th edition of Truth in Love, and today we're celebrating, honoring |
| 1:08.2 | our heritage, and I thought you'd be a great person to help us to do that. Well, brother, welcome to the podcast. Thank you for being here with us. Oh, thank you, Dale. It's good to be here. Man, it's encouraging to me, Howard, how you're continuing to study all of these formal pieces of education that you're pursuing. And I want to talk to you at some point about the gerontology studies. That's really interesting to me. But that's not our task today. |
| 1:31.9 | What I want us to talk about today is looking back, honoring our heritage with ACBC, the history |
| 1:38.5 | as we began in 1976 with Nank. I want to get this started with just a personal reflection, Howard. One of the |
| 1:47.0 | most exciting and fun things that I get to do is sit down with people just like you who were |
| 1:51.6 | there in the early days. And I love just to ask questions to hear some of the stories from |
| 1:57.1 | early on. And today we're going to let our listeners to the podcast in on some of those |
| 2:01.3 | personal conversations that we've had in the past. And first question I want to ask, |
| 2:06.0 | Howard, is just give a reflection. You were trained directly by Jay. You were in the room |
| 2:11.7 | very early on. What was that training like? Maybe give a favorite story of your training with Jay. I think that |
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