• Scripture: In his Word, God speaks into real life to help us understand him and his intentions. How do we embrace Scripture to hear him at that level?
• People: How can this deeper understanding of Scripture help us understand - and help - people (including ourselves) amid the problems of daily life?

• Worry
• Victimization
• "Love languages"
• The new biomedical approach to personal struggles

About the Author: David Powlinson is the editor of the Journal of Biblical Counseling and a member of the faculty and counseling staff at the Christian Counseling and Education Foundation in Glenside, Pennsylvania. He also teaches at Westminster Theological Seminary.
Powlinson grew up in Hawaii and graduated from Harvard University. He became a Christian while working in a psychiatric hospital, through the ministry of his college friend, Bob Kramer, to whom this book is dedicated. Powlinson earned an M.Div from Westminster Thoelogical Seminary, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Powlinson is the author of Power Encounters: Reclaiming Spiritual Warfare; Competant to Counsel? The History of a Conservative Protestant Anti-Pyschiatry Movement; and numerous articles. He has written many booklets in the Resources fro Changing Lives series, and edited Counsel the Word. Powlinson is also a board member and Fellow of the National Association of Nouthetic Counselors.