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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...

followed the Holy Spirit and led the first missionary team, consisting of himself, Paul, and John Mark (12:1–13:3). Even when young John Mark quit before the first journey was over (15:38), Barnabas used some of his furlough time to restore John to the ministry, triggering the anger of Paul (15:36–40). But in the end, even Paul would see John Mark as a recovered teammate (2 Tim. 4:11). Biblical counseling, in New Testament times or the present, is not an exercise in value neutrality.