Ste Casey gave a message challenging us to be vulnerable with our households for the glory of God. He told the story of a lady who showed up at his family’s home in need of protection. She had been in an abusive relationship and could not break free. Ste explained the risk his family (including… Read More »
Julie Lowe opened the day with a session challenging us on how we nurture relationships. We should desire flourishing in our relationships and conversations. There are no ordinary people. Each person we encounter has a soul and eternal destiny. How do we give without expectations and strings attached? How do we have the mind of Christ… Read More »
Jayne Clark gave an encouraging message on how we should view singleness. Singleness is a universal experience and how we view singleness is important because it effects how we treat singles. Being single does not mean that you are broken because you are single. That is a lie that has done a lot of damage. … Read More »
Alasdair Groves gave an encouraging message on how God shakes up the family tree. If we are honest, we all have experiences in family life which are not what we had hoped for. For the church, this can be especially difficult because we have high expectations for family. But there is hope for those facing… Read More »
David Powlison set the stage for the CCEF 2017 Conference on the topic of family. He asked us how we can embrace the blessing of family and face the brokenness without becoming either idolatrous or depressed. In life there are really high joys and really low valleys. For example, Powlison shared how his daughter gave… Read More »
For those of you who missed #CCEF17, or this year’s Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation Conference, below are summaries of the main sessions. This year’s theme was “Family: Embracing the Blessing, Facing the Brokenness.” I hope these concise summaries will be a blessing to you. You can also purchase the conference audio here. There were a bunch of really good… Read More »
This is the essence of marriage, a husband and wife, clinging together. Aaron Sironi delivered his general session at the CCEF conference entitled: For Better or For Worse: Emotions in Marriage. He challenged us to approach marriage counseling from the perspective of encouraging Biblical clinging. Aaron explained that emotions in marriage are powerful. They can tear a couple… Read More »
“Emotions help us to enter into the lives of and connect with others.” Winston Smith presented on the topic of emotions and relationships. He explained that emotions are like a passport into the lives of others. “Emotions help us to enter into the lives of and connect with others.” So we don’t just know about them,… Read More »
“There is nothing you can feel that you can not take to God.” Following up on yesterday’s session, “Why Do I Feel How I Feel?“, Alasdair Groves discusses what we do next with those feelings. How do we engage our emotions? How do we respond to all this stuff going on inside of us? Alasdair explained… Read More »
Our life is to be a life of worship. And our emotions are perfectly situated to drive us into fruitful obedience, to drive us into worship in action. Alasdair Groves explains that emotions are a hard thing to define. “How do I understand what is going inside myself?” Alasdair helped us to consider what emotions… Read More »