Reflections on ‘Teaching to Observe’ by Jay E. Adams
In Teaching to Observe, Jay Adams helps counselors to see teaching as an essential and indispensable aspect of counseling. The counselor is not a professional “listener,” who merely draws out solutions to the counselee’s problem from the counselee himself. Rather, the counselor is one who seeks to impart genuine spiritual knowledge to the counselee with [...]
Reflections on ‘Seeing with New Eyes’ by David Powlison
Although the chapters in the book Seeing with New Eyes were written as separate articles, the unifying theme of Scripture’s sufficiency for counseling was clear and unmistakable. Whether it was a chapter which unearthed the truths of Scripture by thoughtful exposition and application of particular passages, or a chapter with a series of heart-searching, sin-exposing [...]
Be Careful How You Grieve with Others
Derek Kidner, in The Wisdom of Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes, makes some helpful observations about Job’s friends and why God was angry with their counsel. Kidner’s words are a stern reminder to us to proceed very carefully in matters of sympathetic grieving (“weep with those who weep”) and counsel. It is possible to dismiss these [...]
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