In the last issue we began discussing the Secondary Dominant Domains of IRBC's philosophical model of counseling. The Secondary Dominant Domains consist ofthe Environmental DomainTM and the Productive DomainTM. Within the Environmental Domain are three different realms: The Spiritual, Social, and Physical. Last time we looked at the Spiritual Realm. In this article we will concentrate on the Social and Physical Realms.

The grounds for including labor or production as a dominant domain in IRBC's model of counseling are rooted in the primary role that work is to play in the lives of the creatures that were created in the image of God — an eternally existing Being who works.

There are seven core principles underlying IRBC's philosophy of biblical counseling — principles that will help you build for yourself a philosophy of counseling that is biblical and distinctively Reformed. Our core principles lay the groundwork for the 7 Dominant Domains for the Origin of Human Problems. Some of these domains will be introduced within the context of our discussion of IRBC's philosophy; the others will be touched upon later when we dig into counseling methodology.

Liberalism is a system of thinking that denies the complete truthfulness of the bible as the word of God and denies the unique and absolute authority of the Bible in our lives. The frightening thing is that liberalism is been accepted by some Christian counsellors in their practice. This article aims at helping you find a biblical counselling practitioner. 

The most threat facing Christians is that of humanism. Humanism is characterized by the denial of God and the authority of scripture. The threat is that some Christian counsellors have embraced the methods of humanism in their counselling practice. The article highlights this danger.

This article is about spiritual warfare, and also looks at topics like sin and Satan, the temptation of the sinful flesh, and this world and sin.