In this episode, Jeremy provides a distinction between “Christian counseling”, and Biblical Counseling, their theories and methodologies. And then an historical survey of soul care from the time of St. Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, The Puritans acute knowledge and awareness of soul care, to Martin Luther, and through the modernist movement that pioneered the scope of modern psychology as we know it today, and then provides the state of urgency for the local church today.

Episode Links:
Jeremy Lelek's Book - Biblical Counseling Basics
St Augustine - brief autobiography
Thomas Aquinas - brief autobiography
Martin Luther - Bondage of the will
Richard Baxter - The Christian Directory
Modernist Movement:  Wilhelm Wundt, Sigmund Frued, Carl Rogers
David Powlison - 2nd Generation Biblical Counseling Movement (please pray for David, he has cancer)
Paul Tripp - 2nd Generation Biblical Counseling Movement
Instruments in The Redeemer's Hands: Love, Know, Speak, Do

In this episode, our hosts take time to introduce themselves; their personal lives, ministry lives, and church lives. They share their journey’s of following Jesus and how The LORD has used their lives to impact others.

Mike & Shauna talk about their early years of marriage and struggles, work and career paths, and God's Sovereign plan in their lives. The founding of Truth Renewed Ministries.

Jeremy shares God's early hand in bringing about his family, his pathway for his profession as a licensed professional counselor and founder of Metroplex Counseling & Association of Biblical counselors. 

The Hosts talk a little about the current climate of biblical counseling and the local church's need to respond proactively to the need of their people and realizing this a gospel issue, and therefore, a discipling issue. 

In this episode, one of the hosts', Mike Van Dyke, reveals who will be co-hosting with him to provide a weekly podcast to edify the local church in biblical counseling and discipleship. Speak The Truth will consist of three host; Mike & Shauna Van Dyke, founders of Truth Renewed Ministries, a biblical counseling ministry. And they'll be joined with co-host, Jeremy Lelek, President of Association of Biblical counselors and Metroplex Counseling. In this trailer, Mike shares what the nature of the podcast will be, and encourages the local church to stay tuned as they begin to bring weekly podcast for the edification of the local church. 

This is a show intro/outro, please stay tuned for more to come. Our regular hosts will be Mike Van Dyke, Shauna Van Dyke, Founders of Truth Renewed Ministries, and Jeremy Lelek, President and Founder of Association of Biblical Counselors.