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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...

from his soul, a godly mother and grandmother were pointing him toward the sunrise of truth. Apparently in this three-generation Jewish family, there had been a genuine reverence for the Old Testament. And Jesus had declared that much “is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms” (Luke 24:44). By piling the kindling of Scripture around young Timothy’s heart, his family had readied him for the Holy Spirit to light the flame of evangelical understanding. If a time line were
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