Last summer, David Powlison, a personal mentor and friend, was taken into the presence of the Lord. In the final months of his battle against cancer he used the energy he had left to give us one final gift. His final book, Safe & Sound: Standing Firm in Spiritual Battles, is a treasure of practical theology about the realities of everyday spiritual warfare. As a teacher and trainer of counselors and pastors, some chapters give guidance as to how to help others, but every Christian would profit greatly from slowly reading this book. There is more that I hope to say about this book in coming days. For now, here are ten quotes to whet your appetite.
“In personal ministry, you will meet many people who, like me, have no idea that they are in the grip of the dark lord and his lies. When you are counseling people who do not yet know the Lord, then you know that they live within a fog of fundamental deception. They are disoriented to what life is about. They are walking in the dark and do not understand what they are stumbling over (Proverbs 4:19). You know that the deceiver of
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