Nate Brooks

Dec 6, 2024 | biblicalcounselingcoalition.org | Nate Brooks

The Scriptures brim with all kinds of metaphors, similes, and word pictures to describe God and His work. God has designed us to resonate with imaginative ways of describing reality. We feel God’s unshakable strength as He compares Himself to immovable rock. We feel the deep guttural rumble of God’s power as He calls Himself a lion. We feel His tenderness when He comforts us with rod and staff.

May 28, 2024 | thegospelcoalition.org | Nate Brooks |Tim Keller |Edmund P. Clowney |Mikey Lynch

The sentence “marital abuse is anti-gospel” isn’t particularly controversial. God points to marriage as the lived-out picture of Christ’s love for the people he’s redeemed (Eph. 5:22–33). A spouse exploiting the one he or she has promised to love and to cherish paints a diffrent picture than the one marriage is meant to display. But the anti-gospel nature of marital abuse is multilayered, stretching beyond the obvious.

Apr 1, 2024 | biblicalcounselingcoalition.org | Nate Brooks

Certain points of argument seem to be quite evergreen within the church. Does God choose us, or do we choose Him? How is the church’s government supposed to be structured? What’s going to happen at the end of all things? Some of these conversations are certainly more important than others. Another question that comes to the surface time and again is of significant importance. Is all sin the same before the Lord?

Jan 19, 2024 | biblicalcounselingcoalition.org | Nate Brooks

Editor’s Note: Our January 2024 mini-series on the BCC Grace and Truth blog addresses the topic of embodiment. In this final article, Nate Brooks provides an example of approaching a particular counseling case in view of the whole person. In other contributions to the series, Jeemin Moon considers our experience of suffering as embodied beings in light of biblical anthropology, and Steve Midgley presents a metaphor of music for understanding the concept of embodiment.

Oct 20, 2023 | biblicalcounselingcoalition.org | Nate Brooks

Editor’s Note: This week’s mini-series on the Grace and Truth blog addresses the history of the biblical counseling movement. In this final article, Nate Brooks discusses David Powlison’s writings on the relationship between divine revelation and secular psychology.