Psychoheresy: The Psychological Seduction of Christianity

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Martin Bobgan

Psychology & Counseling

EastGate Publishers

12 Steps to Recovery is for those who are suffering from the trials of life and for those who want to help. It is for those who are thinking about joining a recovery group or entering a treatment center for codependency or addiction. It is for those who have tried Twelve-Step programs and recovery treatment centers and found them lacking. It is also for those who are currently in such programs. And, finally, it is to encourage Christians who offer such programs to return to the faith once delivered to the saints. READABLE, THOUGHT-PROVOKING, CONTROVERSIAL, AND CHALLENGING.

12 Steps to Destruction: Codependecy/Recovery Heresies

Bobgan, Martin

Bobgan, Deidre

Addiction & Recovery

FOUR TEMPERAMENTS, ASTROLOGY &amp; PERSONALITY TESTING examines and answers the following questions:•What is the connection of the four temperaments, astrology, and personality testing?•Why are the four temperaments so popular among Christians, even though they have almost disappeared from the field of psychology?•Do the four temperaments and other personality typologies give true insight into a person’s thoughts, emotions, or behavior?•Can knowing personality types and temperaments foster Christian love and maturity?•Are there any biblically or scientifically established temperament or personality types?•Are personality inventories and tests valid ways of finding out about people?

Four Temperaments, Astrology, and Personality Testing

Deidre Bobgan

Religion & Spirituality

Against “Biblical Counseling”: For the Bible is a readable, challenging, controversial, and thought-provoking book about the rapidly expanding biblical counseling movement. This book gives reasons why Christians should abandon the biblical counseling movement and calls Christians back to the Bible and to biblically ordained ministries and mutual care in the Body of Christ.Christians often think they cannot minister God’s grace and wisdom to fellow believers because they have not been trained in psychology. Now many think they cannot minister personal mutual care to fellow believers, because they are not trained specifically in biblical counseling. Others have said they feel much more secure counseling fellow believers after having taken a class and having a manual to use. Thus increasing numbers of pastors and lay people are seeking training in biblical counseling, when what they really need is knowledge of the Word, understanding the Word, personal obedience to the Word, and confidence to discard all counseling and to use the whole armor of God.

Against "Biblical Counseling": For the Bible

Christian Books & Bibles

COMPETENT TO MINISTER: THE BIBLICAL CARE OF SOULS is for Christians who want to know what the Bible says about ministering the care of souls to one another. Who is equipped and qualified to minister God’s care and counsel to fellow believers? When we think of people who influenced our Christian growth, we remember people who lived the Christian life. They loved and served in humility and faith. Yet, when it comes to counseling, which we call personal ministry, most Christians consider themselves unprepared. May this book encourage you as you discover that God has given believers all they need for life and godliness (2 Peter 1:B) and for ministering this life to one another. Believers, guided by the Word and empowered by the Holy Spirit, are equipped and called to minister to one another in the Body of Christ as they look to the Lord and His Word for help and rely on the Holy Spirit to be the true Counselor. By relying on the Lord, mutual care in the Body of Christ is a creative, spiritual process involving a person who needs help and another person who will come alongside as God’s instrument of mercy and truth.What we present in this book is just one small glimpse of what is totally available in the Bible. The Scriptures provide an infinite number of possible applications of truth to be ministered through a believer who has been transformed by the Cross of Christ to one who by God’s grace receives and responds.We pray that as you read this book, you will be encouraged to seek the springs of Living Water for yourself and for others. The Word of God and the work of the Holy Spirit provide power for caring for one another as people are confronted by the trials, tribulations, and sufferings of life.

Competent to Minister: The Biblical Care of Souls

“Christian psychology” is comprised of the same confusion of contradictory theories and techniques as secular psychology. Professional psychologists who profess Christianity have simply borrowed the theories and techniques from secular psychology. Professional psychotherapy with its underlying psychologies is questionable at best, detrimental at worst, and a spiritual counterfeit at least. The purpose of this book is to demonstrate the truth of that statement and to raise the challenge of purging the church of all evidences of this scourge.

The End of "Christian Psychology"

Bobgan, Deidre N

Bobgan, Dr. Martin M

This book is a response to the four-part series on "Psychology &amp; the Church" by Bob and Gretchen Passantino, published in the Christian Research Institute's (CRI) journal. The articles by the Passantinos blatantly leave the door wide open to the integration of secular psychological counseling theories and therapies with the Bible. The Bobgans show how the tentacles of the psychological way have strangled the thinking of many Christians and demonstrate that CRI must now accept part of the responsibility for the church's ongoing capitulation to and use of psychotherapy.

CRI Guilty of Psychoheresy?

Dr. Larry Crabb is well-known for his books on counseling and Christian growth. While he refers to his counseling model and methods as biblical, this book shows how secular psychological theories influence his teachings about the human condition, how people change and grow, and how they can find God. The book provides a detailed analysis of Crabb's psychotheology with descriptions of his need-driven theology, his teachings on unconscious motivators of behavior, and his exposing process. The authors trace Crabb's journey of jolts, shifts, and expansions and show that while Crabb's books may progressively sound more biblical, his eclectic theories and methods remain psychologically bound.

Larry Crabb's Gospel

Religious Studies

The Bobgans demonstrate that TheoPhostic counseling is the result of many existent psychological therapies, including psychoanalytic, Eye Movement Desinsitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and cognitive-behavioral therapies. They also show that it includes dangerous elements from the inner healing movement, such as guided imagery, visualization, and hypnosis. They present their concerns about this form of counseling and concluded that it originated from the perverted wisdom of men rather than from the mind of God.

TheoPhostic Counseling: Divine Revelation or PsychoHeresy?

Because of his tremendous influence in bringing psychology and self-esteem teachings into the church, Dr. James Dobson’s work is an appropriate subject for examination. What he has written and said is examined from both a biblical and scientific point of view. There are pluses to Dobson’s ministry. However, after all the pluses and minuses are added together, it is concluded that Focus on the Family is an organization that too often honors man and his opinions over God and His Word. Contrary to what he claims, this book demonstrates that some of Dobson’s basic assumptions and many of his specific teachings actually originated from secular psychological theorists whose opinions are based on godless foundations. Thus, Dobson uses the Bible as a sanction for dispensing unbiblical ideas to unsuspecting readers and listeners. The use of psychology to help people eclipses the Scriptures at Focus on the Family. Self-esteem and psychology are the two major thrusts that too often supersede sin, salvation, and sanctification. They are another gospel.

James Dobson's Gospel of Self-Esteem & Psychology

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