Powlison & Tripp Join SBTS Faculty

Towers Online reports:

The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary continues to bolster its biblical counseling program with the addition of several renowned authors and scholars as visiting faculty.

Paul David Tripp, president of Paul Tripp Ministries and a counselor for 25 years, and David Powlison, faculty member at the Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation (CCEF), have both been added to Southern’s faculty as visiting professors.

I join David Powlison in praying “...that Christian colleges, universities and seminaries would get a vision toward orienting counseling around the Gospel.” Unfortunately, it's necessary to add "churches" to that list as well.

Read the rest. (HT: Alex Chediak)