Biblical Counseling Podcast

Biblical Counseling Podcast is a Scripture-first teaching show about counsel, discipleship, and Christian soul care. Jeff Christensen speaks as a host to people who minister to others, especially those carrying biblical counseling responsibilities in churches, homes, and training settings. The format is plainspoken and study-driven. Episodes often begin with a biblical text, then press that passage into practical questions about marriage, family, church attendance, spiritual priorities, repentance, hope, and growth in grace. Recent teaching on the resurrection presents it as more than doctrine; it becomes the living power behind ministry, forgiveness, salvation, and future hope. That urgency shapes the show’s overall tone. It is pastoral, but rarely soft-edged. Christensen is comfortable warning listeners against what he sees as strange doctrine, self-powered sanctification, and psychology’s influence in church life. Grace is a repeated corrective. In the sanctification material, Christian growth is framed less as manufacturing spiritual fruit and more as drawing life from Christ, the vine. The family episodes return to similar ground, arguing that the Lord builds the home and that the local church is essential for Christian formation. The show also values full-Bible teaching, recommending churches that give people the whole counsel of God rather than isolated religious advice. Personal history appears in the episode on Christensen’s path into biblical counseling, including his time at Bible college in the mid-1990s and the influence of Bob Hoekstra’s Counseling God’s Way. The autobiographical material does not turn the show into memoir. It mainly explains why Christensen links counseling so tightly with discipleship, prayer, and Scripture. References to the Biblical Counseling Academy give the feed a training-oriented edge, with invitations aimed at Christians who feel called but unprepared to counsel biblically. The show suits listeners who want confident doctrinal instruction, not therapeutic ambiguity. Its convictions are narrow by design. For that audience, the strength is clarity: Scripture supplies the categories, Christ supplies the life, and counseling belongs close to the ordinary ministry of the church.