David Powlison
August 6, 2025
Check out a sample clip from a lecture by David Powlison from our foundational course, Dynamics of Biblical Change.
“‘He gives more grace’ is the basis of your relationship with God. It’s the heartbeat of your prayer life. The entirety of your relationship to God is predicated on this DNA. It’s what you trust, what you plead, what you sing, what you delight in, what you’re thankful for.”
—David Powlison
Author, Speaker
David Powlison served as CCEF’s executive director (2014-2019), a faculty member, and senior editor of the Journal of Biblical Counseling. He held a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and an MDiv from Westminster Theological Seminary. David wrote extensively on biblical counseling and on the relationship between faith and psychology. His books Seeing with New Eyes and Speaking Truth in Love probe the implications of Scripture for how to understand people and how to counsel. The Biblical Counseling Movement: History and Context explores the background and development of CCEF’s mission. David is survived by his wife Nan, their three children and spouses, and seven grandchildren.
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