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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...

dare God ask us to forgive seventy times seven (18:21–22) when we well know that the person who wronged us will do it again? “After all,” we murmur, “people don’t change.” Neither of our Simons was a change-skeptic. They both believed in change. However, they raged against each other concerning the source of change. Simon Peter was living proof that deep change comes as a gift from above (James 1:17–18). But Simon the Sorcerer, reaching back into his old life, thought he could buy the power to change
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