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What do you worry about? ?Do I have any real friends?? ?Will I ever find a spouse?? ?If I do find one, will he or she be faithful?? ?What about my health?? There's always something to worry about. David Powlison recognizes that we have good reason to worry about things. But he assures us that we have much better reasons not to worry! Anxiety is a universal human experience, and we need to approach it with a plan. What do you do when anxieties ...

How do you know if you?re ready to marry? What are the signs that a man and a woman are heading in the same direction and are right for each other? In this booklet a biblical counselor and a pastor team up to offer five pertinent questions that will help couples decide whether to commit themselves to each other for life. These questions bring to light basic convictions, assumptions, expectations, priorities, and more. As couples think through ...

?Private sexual fantasy can preoccupy vast areas of a person's mental life, ? notes David Powlison. ?As explicit sexual images proliferate in films and magazines, on television, and over the Internet, the temptations increase and the bondage seems unbreakable. Even Christians can find that their lives have become a push-pull stuggle between indulging in fantasy and resisting it.? ?Is it really possible to slay the dragon of pornography and fan...

?God's unconditional love.? Sounds nice, but is it enough? Is there more to God's love? Describing unconditional love as detached ?blanket acceptance? and ?benign affection, ? David Powlison challenges our common assumption about the nature of God's love. Although wonderfully accepting, divine love is also intrusive, intimate, personal, and active. Instead of simply loving us as we are, God loves us enough to change us. Powlison acknowledges f...

?Why is this happening to me? Where is God in my time of anguish?? Knowing our hearts, God has spoken powerful words of comfort. Psalm 10, for example, is God's word to those who have been victimized by others. It guides people into knowing God in the midst of being violated.

Are you overwhelmed by stress? On edge? Pressured to achieve? Spinning into free fall? What is the ?noise? going on inside you? Or are you quiet inside? Here David Powlison invited you to look at Psalm 131 to learn how to guiet your soul. ?Psalm 131 gives us intimate access to the inner life of someone who has learned composure, ? Powlison writes. ?This person is quiet on the inside because he has learned the only true and lasting peace.? Psal...

In this groundbreaking book, David Powlison reframes the universal problem of anger through an in-depth exploration of God's anger and ours. Full of practical help for all who struggle with how to respond when life goes wrong, Good and Angry sets readers on a path toward the faithful and fruitful expression of anger.

Essays by a highly regarded biblical counselor. Some of these pieces exegete Scripture with a counseling perspective, while others recast specific "psychological" problems.

You probably speak 20, 000 words a day, give or take, and each one influences those who listen. No wonder God has so much to say about our words. We are all counselors, whether we realize it or not! Speaking Truth in Love is a blueprint for communication that strengthens community in Christ. The principles outlined in this pivotal work are specific to counseling, yet extend to marriage, family, friendship, business and the church. ? Have you e...

Beginning in the late 1960s, a biblical counseling movement sought to reclaim counseling for the church and provide a Christian alternative to mainstream psychiatry and psychotherapy. The Biblical Counseling Movement: History and Context is an informative and thought-provoking account of that movement. David Powlison's historical account ...