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Biblical Counseling for Today: A Handbook for Those Who Counsel from Scripture is unavailable, but you can change that!

In his preface to this challenging book Jeff Watson describes biblical counseling as "a noble adjective married to a nervous noun." Believers are wise to be skeptical of much that is done in the name of counseling in secular settings. Even under the umbrella of "Christian counseling," one has heard horror stories of cases where God's Word has been misused. But Jeff Watson makes a strong case in...

CHOOSING JESUS’ GOALS Even Christians can come to counselors with dreams that scatter in more directions than a bucket of marbles dumped on a tile floor. “To lose twenty pounds; to increase my IQ; to know which model of car I should buy; to see if you’ll agree with me that so-and-so has wronged me,” and others. When confronted by such far-flung hopes, biblical counselors could paraphrase Paul’s words and moan, “We don’t know how to counsel as we ought” (Rom. 8:26). We are not to pray for things outside
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