Safe and Sound: Standing Firm in Spiritual Battles (Helping the Helper)
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Overview
Safe and Sound by best-selling author David Powlison guides readers to see the normality of their struggles with themselves, the world around them, and the powers of darkness.
Counselors tend to be interested in what they can easily describe: psychological dynamics, social influences, and physiological givens. But how does the uncanny power of darkness fit in with the more accessible factors in a person’s life? How can counselors address and assess spiritual warfare factors as they seek to bring the hope and help of Jesus to a struggling person?
By carefully unpacking Ephesians 6 with vivid case studies and biblical wisdom, Powlison helps counselors and counselees alike humanize their struggles and bear the relevance of the love of God in Christ for both the normal battles of anger, fear, and escapism, as well as battles of a more overtly oppressive nature such as the occult, animism, and the shadow of death.
In this helpful guide, Powlison addresses many questions with gospel answers regarding the reality of spiritual warfare, including “What is spiritual warfare?” and “How does Ephesians disciple us in spiritual warfare?”
As part of CCEF’s “Helping the Helper” series, Safe and Sound presents Ephesians as a book about our conflict with darkness—within ourselves, with other people, and with the spiritual forces of evil. Powlison demonstrates how the message of Christ’s triumph over all that is evil, dark, and deadly rings true, and how spiritual warfare is our participation in the Lord’s cosmic war with darkness.
To stand up against evil, Powlison encourages readers to pray pointedly and listen to Scripture intently, standing with other brothers and sisters in Christ and relying on the strength God himself gives.
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- Addresses many questions with gospel answers regarding the reality of spiritual warfare
- Demonstrates how the message of Christ’s triumph over all that is evil, dark, and deadly rings true
- Unpacks Ephesians 6 with vivid case studies and biblical wisdom
- The Reality of Spiritual Warfare
- How Paul Envisions Spiritual Warfare
- God’s Weapons and God’s Call
- Strength and Guidance for Personal Ministry
- Fighting the Normal Battles: Anger, Fear, Escapism
- The Battle with the Shadow of Death
- In Conflict with the Occult
- The Battle with Animism
- Spiritual Warfare Focuses on the Person
- The Last Battle
- Appendix: Jesus’s Mode of Ministry and Ours
Part 1: What Is Spiritual Warfare?
Part 2: Counseling in the Reality of Spiritual Warfare
I don’t think there is a better book on spiritual warfare. It breaks through the confusion and fear that so often attend this topic with practical biblical insight, carefully given by a skilled surgeon of the soul. Every Christian should read this book so they are prepared for the inevitable battles they will face between the ‘already’ of their conversion and the ‘not yet’ of their home-going.
—Paul David Tripp, President of Paul Tripp Ministries; pastor; bestselling author of New Morning Mercies
During his lifetime, David Powlison gave to the church gifts too numerous to mention. His parting gift of this book is no exception. Using Ephesians 6 as a foundation, David makes a compelling case for Christian life and ministry as everyday spiritual warfare empowered by the Divine Warrior himself, our triune God. This is warfare demystified—battle against the world, the flesh, and the devil waged prayerfully and dependently on your knees with Scripture in your hand and your heart.
—Michael R. Emlet, Counselor and Dean of Faculty, Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation (CCEF); author of CrossTalk: Where Life and Scripture Meet and Descriptions and Prescriptions: A Biblical Perspective on Psychiatric Diagnoses and Medications
Safe and Sound protects you from the worst kind of spiritual warfare where you let Satan ‘get in your head.’ We have the high ground. That’s one of David Powlison’s many rich insights in this thoughtful book on fighting the powers of darkness. Taking spiritual warfare seriously does not mean letting Satan shape the narratives around his power. He’s a defeated enemy, with a fatal wound from the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ!
—Paul E. Miller, Director of seeJesus; author of A Praying Life and J-Curve: Dying and Rising with Jesus in Everyday Life
- Title: Safe and Sound
- Author: David Powlison
- Series: Helping the Helper
- Publisher: New Growth Press
- Print Publication Date: 2019
- Pages: 113
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9781948130738, 1948130734
- Resource ID: LLS:SAFEANDSOUND
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-14T16:38:48Z