The Sufficiency of Scripture to Diagnose and Cure Souls

In this editorial, David Powlison argues that problems, needs, and struggles of people must be rationally explained by categories found in the Bible. Powlison maintains that “lusts of the flesh” gives a broad explanatory category that helps explain the workings of the human heart in specific detail. Powlison concludes that although our desires control our actions, Christ has power over our desires.