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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 you look at how God is working thr
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 free resource
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 of us will face different str
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 enrich our re
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 do know: we walk with the God who preserves hi
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 flourish?' That is serving her;
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 my day tomorrow as I am exhausted." Do you ever have ni
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 a God who is red
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
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 our 8th and final episode of sea
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 if you're doing it with l
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 role
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 H
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 healthily. It's true when everything just feel
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 to start Leviticus.
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."
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"
Languishing
"Biblical hope is, God is with you. You are not alone in the wilderness. God is with you and that changes everything."
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."
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."
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."
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."
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."
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."
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.
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 or angry or afraid or any of a host of other n
Hope
"God is passionately interested in giving us encouragement that shapes our ability to endure hardship every step of the way."
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 up in a place more p
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 viewi
