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The Biblical Counseling Movement after Adams is unavailable, but you can change that!

Those inside and outside of the biblical counseling movement recognize growing differences between the foundational work of Jay Adams and that of current thought leaders such as David Powlison. But, as any student or teacher of the discipline can attest, those differences have been ill-defined and largely anecdotal until now. Heath Lambert, the first scholar to analyze the movement’s development...

that occupy positions of authority in their hearts. These questions reveal “functional gods,” what or who actually controls their particular actions, thoughts, emotions, attitudes, memories, and anticipations. Note that “functional gods” in a particular situation often stand diametrically opposed to the “professed God.” … As a Christian you profess that God controls all things, and works everything to his glory and your ultimate well being.… [When you sin] your functional god competes with your professed
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