Justin Taylor has recently provided David Powlison’s answers to fifteen important questions related to Christian counseling. I’ve found them extremely helpful, wise, and biblically saturated. If you have an interest in providing Godly counsel and understanding the human heart, I’d encourage you to read through the following links. These questions are taken from Powlison’s essay “I Am Motivated When I Feel Desire” from Seeing With New Eyes: Counseling and the Human Condition Through the Lens of Scripture. The questions are links are as follows:

1. What’s Wrong with People?
2. Why Do People Do Specific Ungodly Things?
3. What’s Wrong with Wanting Good Things?
4. Why Do Our Desires Deceive Us?
5. Is “Lusts of the Flesh” Terminology Practical?
6. Does Each Person Have One “Root Sin”?
7. How Do I Know If a Desire Is Inordinate Rather than Natural?
8. Why Talk about the “Heart” When the Bible Says It’s Unknowable?
9. Doesn’t the Term “Lusts” Just Apply to Bodily Appetites?
10. Can Desires Be Habitual?
11. What’s the Relationship between Fear and Desire?
12. Do We Ever Have Conflicting Motives?
13. “Lusts” and Other Ways of Talking about Sin
14. Should We Just Confront People about Their Sinful Cravings?
15. Can You Change What You Want?

Each of these questions, and the answers provided, will help your understanding of the human heart and will, in turn, help you provide biblical wisdom for those in need of help!