Biblical counseling resources

Counseling Solutions (worldwide non-profit organization helping people who are in situational difficulties, accomplished by using Christian principles to train leaders to competently counsel as well as by providing practical and compassionate counseling to individuals in need; core values). Sample articles are:

• A Time to Forgive. A Time You Can't Forgive.
• 13-Year Old Divorced 5 Times
• Am I to forgive someone who is not asking?
• The Power of UN-forgivenees: A Case Study
• Sex Before Marriage Leads to a Trail of Tears
• I Will Forgive, But Never Forget: a case study
• Case Study: Past Sex Thoughts in Current Marriage
• The Battle for Self-Control
• A Reason Kids Rebel Against Parents and God
• Getting Comfortable as God's Water Boy

Concerned or Responsible: How to think about those you serve: Do you generally feel more concerned or responsible for those you serve? There is a “sphere of responsibility” and a “sphere of concern” and the two are very different. Learn the differences and immediately apply the teaching from The Counseling Solutions Group to those you are discipling.



Does every Timothy need a Paul? This short video seminar will cover two common contexts that we see today in our local churches. The first one is more traditional, over the past 30 years, while the second one has not been completely embraced by our local churches. This second model is tied more into the full-body ministry that we see in the New Testament.



Body to Body Ministry: How do we care for an individual? What is the best context to care for an individual? Who is responsible for the care of an individual? These questions and more are answered in this short seminar from The Counseling Solutions Group, Inc.



Materials from David Powlison (counselor and faculty member at Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation; editor of the Journal of Biblical Counseling; and adjunct professor at Westminster Theological Seminary)

• What Distinguishes Biblical Counseling from other Methods?
• X-Ray Questions (Taken from Seeing with New Eyes)
• Idols of the Heart and Vanity Fair
• Sane Faith - Part 1
• Sane Faith - Part 2
• Sane Faith - Part 3
• The Therapeutic Gospel
• Lusts of the Flesh - Question 1 How does the New Testament commonly talk about what's wrong with people?
• Lusts of the Flesh - Question 2 Why do people do specific ungodly things?
• Lusts of the Flesh - Question 3 But what's wrong with wanting things that seem good?
• Lusts of the Flesh - Question 4 Why don't people see this as the problem?
• Lusts of the Flesh - Question 5 Is the phrase "lusts of the flesh" useful in practical life and counseling?
• Lusts of the Flesh - Question 6 Does each person have one "root sin"?
• Lusts of the Flesh - Question 7 How can you tell if a desire is inordinate rather than natural?
• Lusts of the Flesh - Question 8 Is it even right to talk about the heart, since the Bible teaches that the heart is unknowable to anyone but God?
• Lusts of the Flesh - Question 9 Doesn't the word lusts properly apply only to bodily appetites: the pleasures and comforts of sex, food, drink, rest, exercise, health?
• Lusts of the Flesh - Question 10 Can desires be habitual?
• Lusts of the Flesh - Question 11 What about fears? They seem as important in human motivation as cravings.
• Lusts of the Flesh - Question 12 Do people ever have conflicting motives?
• Lusts of the Flesh - Question 13 How does thinking about lusts relate to other ways of talking about sin, such as "sin nature," "self," "pride," "autonomy," "unbelief," and "self-centeredness"?
• Lusts of the Flesh - Question 14 In counseling, do you just confront a person with his sinful cravings?
• Lusts of the Flesh - Question 15 Can you change what you want?
• Making All Things New: Restoring Pure Joy to the Sexually Broken
• Christ's Grace and Your Sufferings
• Christ the Conversationalist
• Counseling is the Church
• Psychologized Counselees
• True Friendship
• The Fruit of the Spirit is...Patience MP3
• Psalm 94 (MP3)
• In the Last Analysis: Look Out for Introspection (MP3)
• Jesus Christ is NOT One-Size Fits All (MP3)
• Watch Your Bible Reading: Making Personal Application (MP3)
• Enduring Hardship with the Psalmist (MP3)
• Facing Death with Hope (MP3)
• Life and Counseling with David Powlison (MP3)

David Powlison resources from 9 Marks

• What is wrong with the therapeutic approach to counseling?
• What Distinguishes Biblical Counseling from other Methods?
• Strategic Discipling / Counseling

Counseling in the Church, free PDF from 9 Marks (47 pages, 354 kbytes)

Five Advantages of Church-Based Counseling; Counseling and Discipleship; Twenty Ways to Cultivate a Culture of Counseling in Your Church; Looking at the Past and Present of Counseling; Cultivating a Culture of Counseling and Discipleship; Sorting Out the Spiritual and the Physical in Counseling