Pierce Taylor Hibbs joins Discernment Digest to discuss his new book Dissecting the Heart, a carefully annotated collection of lectures by the late David Powlison. Powlison, a leading figure in biblical counseling and longtime CCEF leader, brought unusual clarity to the human heart, the limits of secular psychology, and the practical power of Scripture.

In this conversation Hibbs walks through how he organized decades of Powlison’s teaching into three sections—Secular Psychology, Spiritual Warfare, and True Theology—and why he added extensive footnotes for background, further quotations, and application. Topics include the “psychologized culture,” why the words we use to name our problems shape the solutions we seek, the chessboard metaphor, presuppositionalism (Van Til), the link between certain secular approaches and over-spiritualized deliverance ministries, common grace versus uncritical methodology, and Powlison’s insistence that all theology is practical theology.

Hibbs also shares personal memories of Powlison as a writer, mentor, and friend, including the story behind Hibbs’s first Journal of Biblical Counseling article. Views expressed by the guest are his own; appearance on the program does not imply endorsement.

Dissecting the Heart is available now. Questions or comments: discern@cbctrenton.com

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Amazon https://tinyurl.com/aasebvyz or

Westminster Bookstore https://tinyurl.com/bdf3cdwm