CCEF Podcast: Where Life & Scripture Meet

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Episode 2: Rona Feb 18, 2021

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"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 Feb 11, 2021

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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.

Introduction to Stories from Saints, Sufferers, & Sinners Feb 10, 2021

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Negative Emotions Jan 14, 2021

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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 negative emotions?

Hope Dec 10, 2020

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"God is passionately interested in giving us encouragement that shapes our ability to endure hardship every step of the way."

Trauma Oct 29, 2020

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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 profoundly deeply good than even where we were. That doesn't make the trauma good, it doesn't mean, "Oh, I'm glad I went through trauma," it just simply means there is this inescapable reality to the depth of hope that a connection to Christ in the midst of trauma offers.

Rest Aug 06, 2020

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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 viewing rest through a Christ-centered perspective frees us to embrace true rest in whatever capacity it might come.

CCEF Podcast: Where Life & Scripture Meet Aug 05, 2020

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Counselor's Toolbox: When to Listen, When to Speak Nov 19, 2019

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Parenting in Weakness Nov 06, 2019

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"There's a fine line between godly anxiety that's a godly concern and godless anxiety that pushes away from God and toward man."