CCEF Podcast: Where Life & Scripture Meet

This week's podcast is an excerpt from an actual CCEF Distance Education class . Taken from CCEF faculty member Ed Welch's "Counseling: Problems and Procedures" class, this excerpt is from a lecture focusing on suffering, particularly the suffering that results from sexual violation. To hear an extended version of this class sample, click here . CCEF offers training in biblical counseling both on...

Masturbation, pornography, sexual fantasies...what's so bad about these? No one gets hurt, right? Aren't they better than indulging in actual sexual indecencies with other people? CCEF faculty member Winston Smith addresses the issue of what's sinful (if anything) about these supposedly "victimless" indulgences. By the way, Winston Smith will be presenting an extended seminar on this topic at the...

This week CCEF faculty member Winston Smith shares some of his observations from many years of marriage counseling. Yes, he's "seen it all," and yet he finds real reasons for hope for marriages, based in what he has seen Christ do in the worst of situations.

This week we take a break from our usual topical podcasts to give you a glimpse into the teaching ministry of CCEF. One of CCEF's greatest blessings is God's provision of our wonderful faculty. In this podcast, we've asked three of those teachers, Ed Welch, David Powlison, and Julie Smith Lowe, to tell us about some of the courses they teach for both CCEF's online and onsite counselor training. Ev...

David Powlison shares about living with suffering day-to-day.

David Powlison contrasts our sinful reactions to suffering with the response of Jesus Christ.

Dr. David Powlison shares about Christians who endure chronic suffering, including himself.

Speaker: David Powlision Originally delivered to the Evangelical Theological Society. To hear more podcasts, or for information about CCEF and its ministries, please visit http://www.ccef.org (c)2009 Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation. All rights reserved.

David Powlison talks about the interplay between the intellect, the will and the emotions.

Winston Smith and Cecelia Bernhardt answer questions about issues in biblical counseling at CCEF.  This is part two of the discussion.

Winston Smith and Cecelia Bernhardt answer questions about issues in biblical counseling at CCEF.

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 . ...

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.