The pain of divorce has many different faces: the end of your hopes and dreams for your marriage; a life full of unwanted changes; and the daily struggle with a mixture of grief, fear, guilt, and anger. Is recovery possible? Winston T. Smith is the director of counseling at CCEF and has extensive experience as a marriage and family counselor. Winston joined us to talk about divorce recovery.

Today's episode allows us an opportunity to sit in a portion of a small group discussion led by Dr. Ed Welch on the subject of shame.

Mike Emlet discusses the importance of understanding both the physical and spiritual well-being of someone God has called you to help. More information about Dr. Emlet's courses and writing are available by visiting our website at CCEF.org.

David Powlison discusses how the Puritans can help us better understand biblical counseling and the Christian life.

David Powlison discusses a Christian perspective on Elisabeth Kubler-Ross' five stages of grief.

Today we welcome Dr. Ed Welch who will be sharing some thoughts on why his books are personal to him and are worth discussing within the broader church body. Dr. Welch is Director of CCEF's School of Biblical Counseling and has spent most of his career counseling, writing and teaching others to counsel. Listen in as he touches on just a few areas that hit close to home for so many of us…

Winston Smith discusses marriages and marriage counseling. Winston teaches a distance education class at CCEF on marriage counseling. Visit http://www.ccef.org/distance-education-0 for more information.

On this episode of Help and Hope David Powlison provides an introduction to the ministry of CCEF and a brief history of the biblical counseling movement.

Growing in grace is a process. "Sanctification" is the term used to describe this process of becoming more and more like Jesus Christ. Tim Lane, Executive Director of CCEF, joins Help & Hope to talk about the role of sanctification in counseling.