CCEF Podcast: Where Life & Scripture Meet

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What's CCEF Podcast: Where Life & Scripture Meet about?

How do the treasures of Scripture connect with the troubles of life? As Christians, we have the privilege and challenge of exploring this question. Hosted by Alasdair Groves, this podcast considers how Scripture meets us in day-to-day life, covering topics such as emotions, rest, trauma, weak faith, insomnia, and more.

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CCEF Podcast: Where Life & Scripture Meet episodes:

04.22.2024
New Podcast: Introducing the CCEF Blogcast
Today we’re excited to share with you a recent project we’ve been working on. We started a new podcast called the CCEF Blogcast, where CCEF faculty read their own blogs. We hope you enjoy this special episode as Ed Welch...
04.01.2024
Jesus and Anger
How can understanding Jesus’ emotions help us understand our own? Listen as Alasdair Groves focuses on one particular emotion which Jesus felt: anger, which we see in Scripture is often directed at the things that turn people away from him....
03.01.2024
Jesus and Compassion
How can understanding Jesus’ emotions help us understand our own? Listen as Alasdair Groves focuses on one particular emotion which Jesus felt: compassion, an ache on the heart that presses toward action to make things better.“ God sees our...
02.01.2024
Jesus and Dread
How can understanding Jesus’ emotions help us understand our own? Listen as Alasdair Groves focuses on one particular emotion which Jesus felt, just hours before his crucifixion: dread. How does Jesus’ experience of dread encourage us in our own experience...
01.01.2024
Why Can’t I Control My Emotions?
“The heart poured out to the Lord is actually a form of trust.” Sometimes we find ourselves unable to control our emotions. Often this produces guilt, and we wonder, “What does that say about my faith?” How do we...
12.01.2023
A Host of Scriptures for Every Hardship
Sometimes Scripture feels dry, distant, or impersonal. How do we apply Scripture in these times? How do we take hold of a cup of cold water when we are most thirsty? Listen as Alasdair Groves discusses what it looks...
11.01.2023
Weak Faith
Do you ever feel guilty about how small or weak your faith is? Listen as Alasdair Groves talks about weak faith, primarily considering an example from Peter, one of Jesus’ own disciples. “It's not about the strength of your...
10.01.2023
Laziness
“We can become blind to the goodness of what God is calling us to, the fact that his call to obedience is a call to the path of life, not the path of death. When our drudgery becomes our...
09.01.2023
The Physical Comfort of Words
“When you offer normal, mundane, simple, best-you-can-do words of love and encouragement to somebody in their struggles, there is actually a physiological impact you are having on that person. When you offer words of comfort, you are literally changing something...
06.01.2023
Making Sense of Self-Pity
“It is hard to speak to the Lord about your sufferings and to lament and to honestly go to him and say, ‘Lord, this is hurting in my heart, on my soul.’ We rarely step into relationship in that way,...
05.01.2023
Does Love Always Trust?
“Only the Lord is deserving of full, utter trust. We have a God we can trust 100% in every situation to be who he says he will be. And that means we can always trust whatever he’s up to in...
04.14.2023
Bonus Episode: Collin Hansen on Tim Keller
Alasdair Groves speaks with Collin Hansen about his new book, Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation, and the influences on Tim Keller, which included CCEF and David Powlison. Collin Hansen is the vice president for content and editor in...
04.01.2023
The Church Is Doing Better than We Think
When we think about the state of the church today, the negatives often come to mind. While there is much to be grieved about and much change that needs to take place, there is much to be encouraged by when...
03.01.2023
Are You Over It?
What does it mean to “get over something”? After enduring a difficult situation, how do we know if we’ve processed it wisely? Listen as Alasdair Groves discusses some steps we can consider as we grieve and heal. Check out...
02.01.2023
When You Feel Numb
What do we do when we don’t seem to feel much emotion? How can we understand this experience, and what is God’s call to us in it? Listen as Alasdair Groves talks about the experience of numb emotions. “Each...
01.01.2023
Redeeming Your Smartphone
Most of us are familiar with the ways our phones can be detrimental to our spiritual lives. But how often do we consider ways they can be of spiritual benefit? Listen as Alasdair Groves talks about how smartphones can actually...
12.01.2022
When God Is Silent
“Sometimes, we will listen and we will hear silence. We will look around, and we will not see him or what he is up to, and we will not know what to make of our circumstances, but here’s what we...
11.01.2022
Don’t Lead Your Wife; Serve Her
“One of your greatest goals as a man whom the Lord has called into marriage is to maximize your wife’s opportunities to use her gifts within the context of her life and community. You ask, 'How can I help her...
10.01.2022
When You Can't Sleep
“We have a God who loves, cares, and knows, and I can rest utterly in the hope that he will be with me, he will walk with me, and he will provide. He will care for every last moment of...
09.01.2022
Grief Is Worship
“We do grieve, but we don't grieve without hope. Our grief is a hopeful grief. The losses we sustain and experience in this life are hope-filled because of Jesus, because we have a hope that transcends death itself. We have...
06.17.2022
Bonus Episode: A Counselor's View of Cultural Chaos
Enjoy a bonus episode while we’re on break over the summer! This episode is a recording of Alasdair Groves’ plenary session from the 2021 National Conference: Modern Problems. This year's National Conference: The Way of Wisdom will explore Old Testament...
05.05.2022
Can We Love Someone but Not Like Them?
“We should never be content with, ‘I love that person but I don’t like them.’ That should always be a call to press deeper, to seek to love in ways that lead us toward a greater tenderness and affection.” ...
04.07.2022
How Do We Think Biblically About Personality Tests?
"Anything that presses us forward towards each other with a desire to know the Lord and know his people and know how to love better is going to be...
03.10.2022
How Do We Think Biblically About Conversion Therapy?
What is conversion therapy and how do we think biblically about it? How do we engage with and offer the hope found in Christ to those struggling with same-sex attraction, transgenderism, and other LGBTQ+ issues? How do we navigate our...
02.10.2022
What Does It Mean to "Look for the Good"?
Through the specific example of video game addiction, Alasdair Groves illustrates a broader skill fundamental to biblical counseling: learning to see and draw out what is good, even in the midst of someone making a mess of their life. ...
01.06.2022
How Do I Deal With Seasonal Depression?
"We are never outside of the tender care of God. It's true when we sleep. It's true when we struggle to get out of bed. It's true when we fail to read the Bible. It's true when we aren't eating...
12.02.2021
Why Should I Read Leviticus?
"Leviticus is probably not the first place that people think about life meeting scripture. Most of us don't get to January 1st, planning to read through the Bible this year, and put the day on their calendar that we get...
11.04.2021
What if Counseling Isn't Encouraging?
"Think about Psalm 103. That beautiful phrase, "For the Lord knows that we are dust." He sees our frailty, He knows how fragile we are, and He meets us in that."
09.30.2021
Is It Okay to Want Affirmation?
"The problem is not that our desires need to stay constantly small and in check to make sure they don't threaten our feeble love for Christ. It's rather, we want our love for Christ to grow and grow"
06.24.2021
Languishing
“Biblical hope is, God is with you. You are not alone in the wilderness. God is with you and that changes everything.”
05.19.2021
Honesty
“If we are people of the God of grace, and the word of God is utterly full of grace, then any true words we say ought to be full of grace as well.”
04.01.2021
Negative Emotions Part 2
“The Bible offers one central way of dealing with our negative emotions: we pray them. We take our deeply distressing emotions and we run to the Lord, placing them in his hands."
03.11.2021
Episode 5: Dave
“As Christians we share the experience of simultaneously being saints, sufferers and sinners. Knowing one another and loving one another well requires that we attend to these three foundational experiences.”
03.04.2021
Episode 4: Jen
“As Christians we share the experience of simultaneously being saints, sufferers and sinners. Knowing one another and loving one another well requires that we attend to these three foundational experiences.”
02.25.2021
Episode 3: Sarah
“As Christians we share the experience of simultaneously being saints, sufferers and sinners. Knowing one another and loving one another well requires that we attend to these three foundational experiences.”
02.18.2021
Episode 2: Rona
“Being a saint, sufferer, and sinner are intertwined experiences for believers. These are not segmented areas of our lives—our day to day experiences are a blending of the three.”
02.11.2021
Episode 1: Myriam
As Christians we share the experience of simultaneously being saints, sufferers and sinners. Knowing one another and loving one another well requires that we attend to these three foundational experiences.
02.10.2021
Introduction to Stories from Saints, Sufferers, & Sinners
01.14.2021
Negative Emotions
Let me ask you a question. Is it okay for Christians to feel really bad? Is it okay for Christians to get upset and feel terrible? Do you have a place in your theology for a Christian to be sad...
12.10.2020
Hope
“God is passionately interested in giving us encouragement that shapes our ability to endure hardship every step of the way.”
10.29.2020
Trauma
Where you end up is actually through Christ Himself through His trauma and His overcoming the grave itself and every violation that He, knowing and meeting and living with us, has this way of drawing us close and we end...
08.06.2020
Rest
Is our rest actually restful? In this episode of the CCEF Podcast: Where Life and Scripture Meet, Alasdair Groves sits down to expose the ways that chasing after rest can feel like a never-ending, unsatisfying cycle, and discusses how viewing...
08.05.2020
CCEF Podcast: Where Life & Scripture Meet
11.19.2019
Counselor's Toolbox: When to Listen, When to Speak
11.06.2019
Parenting in Weakness
“There’s a fine line between godly anxiety that’s a godly concern and godless anxiety that pushes away from God and toward man.”
10.24.2019
Spiritual Leadership in the Home
“The conversation about spiritual leadership requires humility and patience from both husband and wife.”
10.03.2019
Walking with the Depressed
"Many times in our anxiety, depression, and hardships, we forget the Author of our story. What does it look like for me to remind someone that we can trust the Author who is good and faithful?"
07.24.2019
Addictions
Ed Welch and Alasdair Groves talk about addictions.
07.09.2019
Headship in Marriage
Robyn and Alasdair talk about headship in marriage.
05.30.2019
Understanding Shame
Alasdair & Todd sit down and talk about understanding shame.

What's CCEF Podcast: Where Life & Scripture Meet about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

CCEF Podcast: Where Life & Scripture Meet episodes:

New Podcast: Introducing the CCEF Blogcast

Jesus and Anger

Jesus and Compassion

Jesus and Dread

Why Can’t I Control My Emotions?

A Host of Scriptures for Every Hardship

Weak Faith

Laziness

The Physical Comfort of Words

Making Sense of Self-Pity

Does Love Always Trust?

Bonus Episode: Collin Hansen on Tim Keller

The Church Is Doing Better than We Think

Are You Over It?

When You Feel Numb

Redeeming Your Smartphone

When God Is Silent

Don’t Lead Your Wife; Serve Her

When You Can't Sleep

Grief Is Worship

Bonus Episode: A Counselor's View of Cultural Chaos

Can We Love Someone but Not Like Them?

How Do We Think Biblically About Personality Tests?

How Do We Think Biblically About Conversion Therapy?

What Does It Mean to "Look for the Good"?

How Do I Deal With Seasonal Depression?

Why Should I Read Leviticus?

What if Counseling Isn't Encouraging?

Is It Okay to Want Affirmation?

Languishing

Honesty

Negative Emotions Part 2

Episode 5: Dave

Episode 4: Jen

Episode 3: Sarah

Episode 2: Rona

Episode 1: Myriam

Introduction to Stories from Saints, Sufferers, & Sinners

Negative Emotions

Hope

Trauma

Rest

CCEF Podcast: Where Life & Scripture Meet

Counselor's Toolbox: When to Listen, When to Speak

Parenting in Weakness

Spiritual Leadership in the Home

Walking with the Depressed

Addictions

Headship in Marriage

Understanding Shame