TIL 523: God Glorifying Change (feat. Omri Miles)
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
4.8 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
1. God glorifying change as a key tenet of biblical counseling.
2. Where do we get the concept that sanctification is the primary aim in biblical counseling?
3. What texts come to mind when thinking about not adding to God's Word in counseling?
4. Why do we see sanctification as such an important issue when considering helping others in counseling?
5. Where do we see people substituting other ideas for sanctification?
6. What is the goal of biblical counseling and how does that determine the methods we use?
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| 0:00.0 | God-glorifying change on this edition of Truth and Love. |
| 0:11.3 | I'm Dale Johnson and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, |
| 0:16.6 | where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people face. |
| 0:20.7 | I'm so delighted with the guests that I have for today. |
| 0:24.5 | His name is Omri Miles. |
| 0:25.9 | He serves as a lead pastor of Grace Bible Church in New Orleans, Louisiana. |
| 0:29.9 | He holds a Master of Divinity degree from the Expositor's Seminary |
| 0:32.8 | and a Master of Arts and Biblical Counseling from the Master's University. |
| 0:37.1 | He's been certified with ACBC since 2018. |
| 0:39.3 | He spent more than 15 years in Tempe, Arizona, training for ministry until he was sent to plant a church in New Orleans East, |
| 0:47.0 | which is where he now lives with his wife, Emily, and their five children. |
| 0:51.1 | For many of you, last year at our annual conference was an introduction |
| 0:54.2 | to our brother Omri, and I'm so glad he's with us today, and we're going to talk about this |
| 0:58.3 | issue of God-Glorifying Change. Amory, welcome to the podcast. Thanks, Dale. Now, what a critical |
| 1:04.0 | subject as we talk about God-honoring change. This concept, really, that the Bible describes |
| 1:10.2 | as sanctification or being sanctified, |
| 1:13.2 | and so many ways in which we think about this in biblical counseling. In fact, genuine God |
| 1:18.7 | honoring pastoral care really focuses and hones in on this concept of what it means to pursue |
| 1:24.5 | change that's honoring to God. And Iory, I have to be honest with you, |
| 1:27.7 | there are so many ways in which counseling and more of a professional type setting or pursuit |
| 1:32.8 | is drifting away from this concept, even Christian counseling, historically with integration, |
| 1:38.2 | and then now with clinically informed styles of biblical counseling, these concepts are being compromised to some degree, |
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