{"podcast":{"title":"Speak The Truth","slug":"speak-the-truth-243909","podcast_index_feed_id":243909,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/speak-the-truth","website_url":"https://www.speakthetruth.org","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/1ATOD1RFZwLW_CFeXmQDGUOcfdmx82TB4z8YMIWZJvA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81NTQ5/ZmE0NzIwZjE5ZTJj/ZWRjMTAzOWRkNWJk/YTVjYi5wbmc.jpg","author":"Association of Biblical Counselors","episode_count":224,"summary":"A podcast devoted to giving biblical truth for educating, equipping, and encouraging the local church in counseling and discipleship.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-31T14:21:14.470393+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/speak-the-truth-243909"},"episode":{"title":"EP. 219 Counseling Through Colossians: Living a Christ-Ruled Life W/Nathan Scroggins","slug":"ep-219-counseling-through-colossians-living-a-christ-ruled-life-w-nathan-scroggins","published_at":"2026-07-10T16:54:01+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/speak-the-truth-243909/ep-219-counseling-through-colossians-living-a-christ-ruled-life-w-nathan-scroggins","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/speak-the-truth-243909","url":"https://speakthetruth.org/219","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/3725a9dc/ce178084.mp3","summary":"Michael is joined with first-time guest Nathan “Jogging” Scroggins, who also highlights Soul Care Consulting International as an “operating system” for local-church discipleship along an intentional-to-intensive discipleship continuum. Nathan explains why Colossians is vital for resisting empty deceit and worldly philosophies and focuses on Colossians 3:15–4:6 about living a Christ-ruled life. Using a case study of Frank, a stressed 42-year-old project manager, husband, and father drifting into irritability and prayerlessness, they discuss counseling applications: letting Christ’s peace govern the heart, letting the Word of Christ dwell richly, cultivating thankfulness, restoring prayerful dependence, rebuilding Christlike relational patterns, and refining witness through speech. 00:00 Conference Welcome 00:55 Soul Care Consulting 03:22 Why Colossians Matters 05:12 Reading The Passage 07:31 Meet Frank Case Study 09:07 Peace Rules The Heart 20:01 Word Dwells Richly 25:51 Thankfulness And Practice 28:02 Counseling Frank Summary 33:25 Final Thanks And Wrap Episode Mentions Soul Care Consulting","meta_description":"Michael is joined with first-time guest Nathan “Jogging” Scroggins, who also highlights Soul Care Consulting International as an “operating system” for lo…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2040,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/speak-the-truth-243909/episodes/ep-219-counseling-through-colossians-living-a-christ-ruled-life-w-nathan-scroggins/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/speak-the-truth-243909/ep-219-counseling-through-colossians-living-a-christ-ruled-life-w-nathan-scroggins.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}