When we face problems we often abandon our responsibility to live like a Christian on the grounds that our problem is unique. But is it? Does God ever allow a Christian to face a test that is utterly unique, and even if he did, would that be an adequate excuse? Jay Adams answers in unmistakably clear terms from 1 Corinthians 10:13, where Paul insists both that the trial is common and that God provides the way of escape.

Adams was the pioneer of the modern biblical counseling movement, and this booklet shows his method in miniature: a single text, pressed hard, applied without evasion. It is short enough to read in one sitting and to give away in quantity, which is how most churches use it - handed to someone in the middle of a hard season, or worked through in a first counseling conversation.