If you're wrong in the way you're right, you're wrong even if you're right.

Ed Welch says that all counseling is a variation on a single theme: knowing and praying for the counselee. Of all the questions the counselor might ask, then, the central guiding question in the counselor's mind is, "How can I pray for you?

You might not think it now, but if you're one of God's children, you're going to figure it out by the end of your life God is good.

The counselee should be aware that you are not God. Better yet, she should be aware that you are aware that you are not God.

You'll face overwhelming odds; you'll be incredibly outnumbered. Fear would be your natural inclination. But keep in mind, God is with you.

Let God Himself be the main attraction at church again.

When we worry, we are telling God, "You are neither trustworthy nor in control, so I need to worry and scheme as I take matters into my own hands." In this way unbelief drives worry, for it is impossible to worry when we are trusting in the provision of our sovereign God.