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Become a Fallen Soldiers March Certified Biblical Counselor.

Fallen Soldiers March needs more Certified Biblical Counselors to join our network! We are counseling Veterans and Military Families to learn to cope with the Consequences of War in ways that glorify God (PTS, traumatic brain injury, blast-Induced brain injury, paralysis, mobility issues, neurological challenges, chemical exposure, moral injury, divorce, addiction, family Issues, and deployment support).

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We are often able to offer live counseling; however, we also offer remote video counseling via secure Internet based applications. We do not conduct any counseling via social media.

If you are a Certified Biblical Counselor who understands the Consequences of War, we need your help providing soul care for Veterans and Military Families.

Our Biblical Counseling Network holds firm to the belief that God’s Word is INSPIRED, INERRANT, INFALLIBLE, AUTHORITATIVE, AND SUFFICIENT FOR ALL MATTERS

A Material Definition of Biblical Counseling

Psychological Counseling

Combines human observations with human wisdom to construct a system of counseling to help man deal with his problems and issues of life. This type of counseling is generally practiced by non-believers and Christians who accept psychological theories as an avenue to help people.

Integration Counseling

Combines human observation, human wisdom, and the Bible to construct a system of counseling to help man deal with his problems and issues of life.

This is sometimes called “Christian Counseling.” This type of counseling is generally practiced by Christians who believe the Bible should be supplemented with psychological theories in order to help people.

Biblical Counseling

Uses the Bible to construct a system of counseling to help man deal with his non-physical or immaterial problems of life. This type of counseling is generally practiced by Christians who believe that the Bible has all we need to provide solutions to man’s non-physical, or immaterial problems as well as what the world calls “psychological” problems. They also believe that the Bible can help man function as God intended in life.

Definition of Biblical Counseling

Biblical counseling can be defined as “using the Word of God (the Bible) within the context it was written to provide solutions and the application of those solutions to non-organic, immaterial, spiritual, and what the world calls ‘psychological’ or ‘mental disorder’ problems.” The Word of God is used in a precise and efficient manner to address these matters. The Word of God is used anticipating the salvation of sinners and the sanctification of saints as a result. Biblical counseling can also be defined as “using the Word of God to give comprehensive answers to non-physical problems on a small group level or one-on-one interpersonal level.”

In essence, biblical counseling is applied biblical systematic theology. It is the practical ministry that comes out of knowing and understanding the Bible and the theology of the Bible. Biblical Counseling is the practical, comprehensive ministry of soul care that comes out of knowing, understanding, and applying biblical

We have been warned in Scripture not to pursue human wisdom for our insights for living.

We are warned in Scripture not to trust human wisdom for principles for living, understanding of human attitudes, motives, behaviors, and our solution for man’s inner problems (problems that are non-organic in nature).

See Psalm 1:1—2 and Colossians 2:8.

We are warned in Scripture not to trust our own wisdom because we can be deceived by our own wisdom.

See Proverbs 3:5—6; 14:12; 16:2, 25; 21:2, and Jeremiah 17:9.

We are instructed in Scripture that God’s wisdom is superior to man’s wisdom. Therefore, man’s wisdom should not be added to God’s wisdom as solutions to man’s inner problems (Problems that are non-organic in nature).

See 1Corinthians 1:21, 25; 2:2—5; 3:20, and Isaiah 55:8—11.

We are instructed in Scripture that God’s wisdom is sufficient to counsel the inner person (the immaterial aspect of man). See Psalm 119:24, 99, 100, Hebrews 4:12, and Psalm 19:7—11

Information Resources

The Heart of Man and Mental Disorders by Rich Thomson

Biblical Framework Counseling Basic Training Course by Nicolas Ellen

Rich Thomson (The Heart of Man and Mental Disorders Book)

Dr. Nicolas Ellen Community of Faith Bible Church, ACBC Certified Biblical Counselor and Fellow

A 501(C) (3) DEDICATED TO PROVIDING CERTIFIED BIBLICAL COUNSELING TO AID VETERANS, MILITARY AND FIRST RESPONDER FAMILIES.

Developing Partnerships

Deaf Biblical Counseling

2.7 Million Veterans Have Service-Connected Hearing Disabilities or Are in Treatment for Hearing-Related Issues

60,000 Military Members Are on Disability for Hearing Loss From Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom

These staggering facts from the Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) and the United States Department of Veteran Affairs, combined with exacerbation of PTS and existing need for treatment through Certified Biblical Counseling has led Fallen Soldiers March to an important and exciting partnership with Deaf Biblical Counseling.

Fellowship of Biblical Counselors (FBC)

The goal of FBC in certifying Training Centers is to bring biblical counseling under the authority of the local church. Directors of FBC Training Centers serve under the oversight of local church pastors/elders. FBC offers fellowship among men and women committed to Spirit-filled living, upholding the Word of God as all-sufficient and authoritative for life and godliness, and relying solely on the transforming gospel of Jesus Christ .

Institute of Biblical Counseling & Discipleship (IBCD)

Originally founded in 1982, IBCD exists to strengthen churches in one-another care through training resources and events. They serve organizations and individuals who share a passion to see believers equipped through life’s struggles with the Word of God, doing this by offering training, as well as offering counseling resources, events and free resources that are helpful to anyone interested in learning how to better help others.

Certification Association of Certified Biblical Counselors

ACBC exists to equip you to minister the Bible faithfully to those all around you who are in need of God’s truth. Our biblically grounded certification process is made up of three phases include Learning, Exams & Evaluations concluding with Supervision.

Truth In Love Biblical Training Center

OUR MISSION: To make practical, systematic, and historically consistent Bible training and education available and affordable to everyday believers in order to equip the saints for the ministry to which God has called each of them. We are also here to serve the church by providing resources for biblical, Christ-centered education that many churches and ministries would like to but are unable to provide.

International Association of Biblical Counselors

A primary philosophical precept of IABC is that it is impossible to mix psychology with the Bible and remain true to God’s Word. We genuinely believe that the Bible provides all the information necessary for the healing of the heart, soul, mind, and spirit of God’s children (2 Peter 1:3) as we allow the Holy Spirit to work.

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