CCEF Podcast: Where Life & Scripture Meet

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How Men handle Breakups Jul 01, 2010

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This week on Help and Hope: Ed Welch, Tim Lane and our host Andrew Ray discuss a recent study which suggests that men handle breakups differently than women.

Marital Intimacy Part 3 Jun 22, 2010

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David Powlison discusses issues of intimacy in marriage. Part 3 of 3.

Marital Intimacy Part 2 Jun 10, 2010

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David Powlison discusses issues of intimacy in marriage. Part 2 of 3.

Marital Intimacy Part 1 Jun 03, 2010

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David Powlison discusses issues of intimacy in marriage. Part 1 of 3.

Data Gathering and Interpretation Part 2 May 28, 2010

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In Part 1 of this podcast, Dr. Paul Tripp discussed how interpretation is critical to the counseling process especially in making sense of the data that comes with knowing a person. This week he discusses why your counsel must be more than situational and relational fixes. It must be a result of looking at a person’s story through the lens of the biblical story.

This audio is from the Distance Ed version of Helping Relationships taught by Paul Tripp. This class is designed to focus on the person who is counseling, the process of counseling, and the critical skills necessary to effect change. It focuses on how to bring the person and work of the Redeemer to people in the midst of their problems. It is offered 5 times a year through Distance Ed: August, Oct, Jan, April, and June. Ed Welch also teaches this class in PA in the Spring.

Data Gathering and Interpretation Part 1 May 24, 2010

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How do we make sense out of all that we hear in counseling?

How do we understand what the Bible says to the drama of a particular moment in a person’s life?

Every form of counseling gathers data about a person. And all data gathering needs interpretation to make it worthwhile. It’s the interpretation of the things we get to know about a person that shapes what we say and do in ministry to another. In this two part series, Paul Tripp invites us to think of ministry as a bridge that connects the shore of the Truth of the word of God and the shore of the truths about this person’s reality.

Low Self-Esteem: A Case Study Part 2 May 07, 2010

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In Part 1 of this podcast, Dr. David Powlison introduced us to Jimmy who is a man classified as suffering from “low self-esteem.” He challenges us to think through how descriptions, masquerading as explanations, often persuade us that they have the truth about understanding people. This week he will discuss why the self-esteem worldview “appears” to create success stories and why the biblical understanding of self-evaluation goes deeper and beyond rehabilitating the fear of man. This audio is from the Theology and Secular Psychology class. In this class you learn the skills to love others wisely by truly understanding how they think and put their world together. It is being offered through CCEF’s Distance Education in June of 2010. Other classes offered in June are: Dynamics of Biblical Change , Helping Relationships [add link to , Counseling in the Local Church [add link, and Marriage Counseling. Please click here to view the DE course schedule for when these courses are also offered additional times of the year.

Low Self-Esteem: A Case Study Apr 30, 2010

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Meet Jimmy. He is a classic case of someone who would be described as suffering from low self-esteem. What are the implications for saying that someone’s problem is their low self-esteem?

Counselor and author, David Powlison begins to challenge us in thinking through how descriptions masquerading as explanations (i.e. Jimmy’s “low self-esteem”) can be engaged with a biblical worldview. This is the first part of a two part series. (Join us next week for Part 2)

This audio is from the Theology and Secular Psychology class which is being offered through Distance Ed in June ‘10. Other classes offered through Distance Ed in June are: Dynamics of Biblical Change, Helping Relationships, Counseling in the Local Church, and Marriage Counseling. Please click here to view the DE course schedule for when these courses are also offered during other times of the year.

Help_and_Hope_-_David_Powlison_at_Bryan_College_-_Five_Views.mp3 Apr 13, 2010

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Ed Welch on Personality Tests Mar 13, 2010

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Who am I? I’m an introvert/extrovert. Who am I? I’m an addict. Who are the people that I’m talking to? He’s just a liar. She’s a very kind person. This is an ADD child.

One way to get at a person’s view of themselves is to ask the question: What is your personality? There are hundreds of personality tests that we have access to that seem to capture who we are. They can be found in magazines, online quizzes, used in marriage counseling, Facebook, etc. How do terms like “introvert” versus “extrovert” influence our view of who we are? What do we do with these popular terms that seem to capture/identify who we are and yet are not found in Scripture?

Ed Welch teaches a class entitled Human Personality that addresses and challenges these very concerns. For information on the next cohort of this online class, visit: http://www.ccef.org/distance-education-class-schedule or you can register now: http://www.ccef.org/register-now