TIL 561: Memory, Trauma, and Biblical Counseling (feat. Matt Rehrer)
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
4.8 • 627 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
1. What is memory?
2. Why is the concept of memory and important concept in biblical counseling?
3. How does memory prioritize meaning and emotion?
4. How does memory suffer from the noetic effects of sin?
5. How does God redeem our memory?
6. What is trauma and how does it relate to our memory especially in regards to PTS?
7. What role does memory play in the concept of PTS?
8. How does Scripture guide our reorientation of memories?
9. How can we help someone find genuine comfort and hope?
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| 0:00.0 | Memory, trauma, and biblical counseling on this edition of Truth and Love. |
| 0:11.7 | I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, |
| 0:17.3 | where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people face. |
| 0:22.0 | This week on the podcast, I have with me, Dr. Matt Rayer. |
| 0:25.0 | He's an emergency medicine physician in the Bay Area. |
| 0:28.4 | He graduated from Baylor College of Medicine in Texas, and he moved to the Bay Area for residency in 2008, |
| 0:35.0 | where he and his wife Kara have lived ever since. Matt and Kara have been |
| 0:39.0 | married for 21 years, and they have three children. Matt serves on staff at North Creek |
| 0:43.6 | Church in Walnut Creek, California, and he's the author of Redeeming Memory and contributed a |
| 0:49.1 | chapter on dementia in the Christian counselor's medical desk reference, the second edition. |
| 0:53.9 | Matt, it's always good to talk to you. |
| 0:55.2 | Brother, I'm looking forward to this conversation today, and you helping us think through |
| 0:59.3 | this not just as a physician, but also from the perspective of thinking biblically about |
| 1:05.6 | memory and trauma and so on. |
| 1:07.3 | So, brother, welcome the podcast, looking forward to it. |
| 1:09.7 | Yeah, I think still. |
| 1:10.3 | Glad to be on. Now, you wrote a book about memory, and this is memory broadly, |
| 1:15.8 | okay, not just the concept of memory related to trauma, although you tell stories in that book |
| 1:20.9 | that are certainly related to traumatic events. But describe, first of all, just some basic |
| 1:26.1 | groundwork, not a lot of tension going on in this question when we think about memory itself. |
| 1:31.0 | What in the world is memory? |
| 1:33.8 | Yeah, I think it's something hard to define. |
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