Are you looking for ways to read and apply the Scriptures to yourself? The article discusses four ways that can help you read the Bible for personal application.

What do you do if you have a continuous struggle with sexual sin? This article discusses how the unending love and mercy of Christ can serve as great encouragement for growth in holiness and the resistance of sexual temptation.

Are you suffering or perhaps you know someone who is suffering? This open letter seeks to encourage a hurting believer to seek our compassionate Father in prayer.

How are you responding to the suffering, hardship, and death of a person dear to you? Many times we ask God, Why me? or Why now? This article provides an answer that will help in how you respond to suffering.

Are you experiencing anxiety? Does your inability to control things stress you out? This articles mentions three things to remember when you're anxious, in order to move forward in the peace of God.

This brief article is written to encourage believers in their fight against doubt.

What is the most crippling thing in the Christian life? It is when we still see our identity in relation to indwelling sin. Remaining sin does not define us.

This article addresses those who do not take their sexual sin seriously. It offers four indicators of one caught in sexual sin, and four ways to change.

How do you deal with the guilt that leads to self-condemnation because of sexual sin or any sin? When your conscience condemns you with guilt you need to hold the right standard, and know where to turn to.

With an eye to Job, this article reckons with the question, where is God in your suffering? It discusses three truths about suffering: God doesn't promise to keep us from suffering, he doesn't promise earthly goods, and he works through suffering. So the article shows how we can find hope in suffering.

 From Isaiah 43:2 this article shows how the sovereign God is actively involved in your suffering.

This article underlines how sanctification is a lifelong process, and that God does not follow a certain schedule but takes his time with us.

Biblical counselling thrives when it is placed in the context of a local church. Why? This article explains that there are five advantages to making the church the place for biblical counselling.

By way of a case study, this article considers appropriate steps to minister to those who are angry at God. It considers what such anger stems from, and also how such anger bears witness that we are designed for a lasting relationship with God.

This article holds out hope for those addicted to pornography. Powlison explains that God can and does transform the addict's imagination and behaviour, as the individual is challenged to face his behaviour, understand the deeper struggle, and go to God for his help in the fight.

This article shows that biblical counselling is rooted in a conviction that Scripture is sufficient to define and cure man's problem. Scripture does this by looking at the meaning of desires of the flesh.

Biblical counseling is rooted in a conviction that God's Word is sufficient to address the complete situation of man. This article shows that such a conviction will lead to certain affirmations and denials about the condition of man.

This article discusses the reason for prayer and what that means for its role in pastoral care and counselling. It reflects on what prayer communicates about your beliefs, what you need to pray for, and how you may pray.

How might you counsel someone who is angry with God because of their difficult life circumstances? Through a case study, the author considers wisdom from Proverbs and Romans to equip us in how to view anger at God and to lead others away from that toxic path.

What do your prayer requests look like? How do they match up with the focus of Scripture's prayers? This article explains how right praying and prayer requests are good avenues to pursue in order to care well for one another.

The great concern of biblical counselling is to remake broken people into disciples of Christ. Therefore, as the article explains, this form of counselling is for everyone—both those who "need" counselling as well as those who don't think they need it.

The author highlights five advantages to having counselling carried out in the local church, over against the secular model of the office-bound counsellor.

When it comes to counselling or ministering to others, a lot of harm can be inflicted when you proof-text instead of using proof texts. The author outlines the difference, and advocates a use of Scripture that is sensitive to someone's life circumstances.

What is the godly way of receiving your cancer? The authors, each of which has personally experienced cancer, explore the discipline of regarding your illness as a gift of God for the purpose of nurturing your faith in Christ and relationship with him and others.

How do you pray when you are alone? Silently, or audibly? The author considers the designation "quiet time" in light of his study of the Psalms, and regards silent prayers as the exception in Scripture. He advocates instead for "noisy time."

Why is idolatry by far the most frequently discussed sin in the Bible? It is a problem of the heart, the chief object of God's concern since from the heart issues everything. Yet idolatry is also a social problem. This article considers the interplay between our hearts and the situation that surrounds us, and the implications this has for counselling issues.

This article is the second of two on the topic of child abuse. Here counsellor David Powlison provides some concrete suggestions for child abuse victims to consider as they desire to progress in their walk of faith. His thoughts center around prayer and possible ways of engaging with the abuser.

This article is the first of two on the topic of child abuse. Here David Powlison opens the Word of God, looking specifically the Psalms in order to bring comfort and hope to victims of child abuse.

David Powlison answers the question of whether anger is morally neutral or conditioned.

This is the last article in a four part series on worry and anxiety. Here Powlison rounds out the discussion by identifying ways to manage anxiety.

This is the third article in a four part series on worry and anxiety. Here Powlison illustrates from Luke 12:22-34 five reasons the Lord Jesus gives for letting go of worry.

This is the second article in a four part series on worry and anxiety. Here Powlison invites the reader to reflect on daily trigger-points for worry. He then addresses the motivation behind our worrying, and concludes by showing the Lord Jesus' commentary on all this.

This is the first article in a four part series on worry and anxiety. In this article, David Powlison leads the reader through Luke 12:22-34, and concludes with the observation that on some levels there are good reasons to worry.

Because Christ suffered and died for our sin, those who believe in Christ may face death, the last enemy, with an unshakeable hope for life after death.

This article outlines ways in which biblical counseling is different from other types of counseling.

This article focuses on the perpetrators of violence and abuse (specifically domestic abuse), and the pastoral care they must receive.