CCEF Podcast: Where Life & Scripture Meet

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Why podcasts? First, we’ve had a lot of requests asking us to get back on the air. We care about supporting you in life and ministry, so we’re making it happen. Second, the podcast format allows us to touch on topics that can be difficult to cover in other forms of media. Those are two good reasons, but at the heart of why we are relaunching the CCEF podcast is because we recognize that biblical counseling is hard. We want you to know that you are not the only one out there that finds it challenging, and we’re committed to coming alongside and supporting you in the process. We’re in this together.

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Making Sense of Self-Pity

06.01.2023

“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, ...

CCEF Podcast: Where Life & Scripture Meet episodes:

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 our ...
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 one ...
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.” In ...
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 helpful. Better to be thinking and reflecting more rather than less ...
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. “In ...
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.
05.22.2019 The Danger of Being Practical in Counseling Ed and Alasdair sit down and talk about "The Danger of Being Practical in Counseling".
04.16.2019 Methodology Alasdair and Todd discuss the topic of methodology for counselors.
04.05.2019 Self Care Alasdair, Mike, and Aaron discuss the topic of self care for counselors.
02.13.2019 Sexual Assualt Alasdair and Julie talk about sexual assualt and how to help.
01.25.2019 Failure to Thrive Marriages
11.20.2018 Addictions Part 2 Alasdair Groves sits down to talk with Mike Emlet about addictions.
11.02.2018 Addictions Part 1 Alasdair Groves sits down and talks with Mike Emlet about addictions.
10.10.2018 Boundaries Alasdair Groves sits down and talks with Laura Andrews about Boundaries.
09.20.2018 Psychiatric Disorders and the Church Alasdair Groves sits down and talks with David Powlison about Psychiatric Disorders and the Church.

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