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The articles include a wealth of information gleaned through over forty years of research. The numerous articles reveal the many different ways psychology has invaded lives and ministries by undermining such elements of the faith as living according to the new life in Christ and according to the Word of God through the indwelling Holy Spirit in the Body of Christ. All articles, unless otherwise indicated, are by Martin and Deidre Bobgan.
Psychotherapy Is Religion
Psychotherapy Is Religion[1] The Bible is full of explanations of why people behave the way they do and how they change. Beginning with Genesis, God demonstrated the basic problem of mankind: separation from God through sin. And, God provided the only lasting remedy...
The Daily Walk
In our last article, “God Matures Believers through Trials,” we talked about a missionary by the name of Mary Lewer. In this article current article about facing trials and tribulations, we look at another woman who found God faithful and described how God prepared...
A Critical Review: Peter Scazzero’s Emotionally Healthy Spirituality (Part Three)
“Know Yourself That You May Know God” The title of Peter Scazzero’s Chapter 2 of Emotionally Healthy Spirituality[1] is: “Know Yourself That You May Know God: Becoming Your Authentic Self.” Scazzero’s title is enticing with its promises and draws individuals into his...
A Critical Review: Peter Scazzero’s Emotionally Healthy Spirituality (Part Two)
In Part One of our critique of Peter Scazzero’s book Emotionally Healthy Spirituality[1] (EHS), we reveal that Scazzero uses the Freudian iceberg image as a metaphor for his “Transformative” scheme of the Christian life with 90% of the mind unconscious and only 10%...
A Critical Review: Peter Scazzero’s Emotionally Healthy Spirituality (Part One)
The back cover of Emotionally Healthy Spirituality[1] (EHS) describes the author: Peter Scazzero is the founder of New Life Fellowship Church in Queens, New York City, a large, multiracial church with more than seventy-three countries represented. After serving as...
Cross-Gender Counseling
Cross-Gender Counseling[1] For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 1 John 2:16 Because of the evil speaking that will occur, our first hope is that counselors...
Hypnosis in Unexpected Places
Hypnosis in Unexpected Places[1] Hypnosis has been among the dark arts throughout ancient history until the present. In his book on the history of hypnosis, Maurice Tinterow says, “Probably the early soothsayers and oracles relied largely on the hypnotic state.”[2]...
Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa & PsychoHeresy (Updated)
[Editors’ Note: The following article is republished from “Calvary Chapel Cost Mesa & Psychoheresy” (October 2014). This current article includes an Update.] In our book PsychoHeresy: The Psychological Seduction of Christianity[1] we say that one of the many ways...
Greg Laurie & PsychoHeresy
According to Wikipedia, “Greg Laurie (born December 10, 1952) is an American author and pastor who serves as the senior pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship [15,000 ‘members’] with campuses in Riverside, Orange County and Maui.” Among his many honors and extensive...
Hypnosis: Medical, Scientific, or Occultic?
[Editors’ note: “Hypnosis Medical Scientific, or Occultic?” is excerpted from our book Hypnosis, Medical, Scientific, or Occultic?] Hypnosis has been used as a method of mental, emotional, behavioral, and physical healing for hundreds and even thousands of years....
Missions & PsychoHeresy
In 1979 Bethany House published our first of 26 books: The Psychological Way / The Spiritual Way. At that time, we predicted that psychological theories and therapies, like the proverbial camel’s nose in the tent, would soon fill the entire Church. Indeed, from 1979...
Reasons for Christians NOT to Go to Therapy
We received a copy of the Spring, 2022, Biola Magazine, which is a publication of Biola University. This particular issue’s “The Last Word” is titled “Five Reasons for Christians to Go to Therapy.”[1] The author, Dr. Doug Daugherty, is dean of Biola’s Rosemead School...
Conversion Therapy Bans: Aargh!
We have only used the expression “Aargh!” once before in over 40 years of writing. That’s when we used the “Aargh!” expression in our article “Hidden in Plain Sight” to reveal our concerned response to the fact that most in the church do not see that the very act of...
Psychological Distortions of God’s Chosen Saints
Can you imagine analyzing, diagnosing, and categorizing the saints recorded in Scripture according to the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manuel (DSM) and according to such temperament typologies as the DiSC Personal Profile System...
Spiritual Gifts Inventories
We recently received the following email question: “Have you any articles/opinions on Christians taking tests to determine their spiritual gifts? The local church here would like everyone to take one of these tests and then be given a ‘job’/ministry based on what the...
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