The Making of a Mature Counselor: What We Learn from David Powlison

David Powlison (1949–2019), a dear colleague and friend, was a polymath who knew much about many things. After working with him for almost forty years, I still chuckled at his passing references to specific flowers, trees, and birds; archaic novels; quotes from early church fathers; details of a solar event scheduled to appear later that evening; and trivia about Philadelphia sports.But these were peripheral adornments on a man who knew Jesus and loved him, fed on the word, was wholly engaged wi