CCEF Podcast: Where Life & Scripture Meet

In Part One of this series, counselor and author David Powlison began to take us on a personal and highly-detailed journey through all the aspects of a counseling relationship, using the case study of "Ann," a woman who is experiencing extreme panic attacks. In part two and part three and part four of this live CCEF training class session, David paused for some questions from his students about dealing with panic and fear. In this final installment of the series, Dr. Powlison discusses the boundaries of the counseling relationship.

In Part One of this series, counselor and author David Powlison began to take us on a personal and highly-detailed journey through all the aspects of a counseling relationship, using the case study of "Ann," a woman who is experiencing extreme panic attacks. In part two and part three of this live CCEF training class session, David paused for some questions from his students about dealing with panic and fear. This week, he fields the question "What's the harm in getting to the gospel early in the counseling encounter?"

In Part One of this series, counselor and author David Powlison began to take us on a personal and highly-detailed journey through all the aspects of a counseling relationship, using the case study of "Ann," a woman who is experiencing extreme panic attacks. In last week's and this week's podcasts of this live CCEF training class session, David pauses for some questions from his students about dealing with panic and fear.

In Part One of this series, counselor and author David Powlison began to take us on a personal and highly-detailed journey through all the aspects of a counseling relationship, using the case study of "Ann," a woman who is experiencing extreme panic attacks. In this week's podcast of this live CCEF training class session, David pauses for some questions from his students about dealing with panic and fear.

In this episode, the first of five parts, counselor and author David Powlison begins to take us on a personal and highly-detailed journey through all the aspects of a counseling relationship. He introduces us to "Ann," a woman who is experiencing extreme panic attacks as she "walks through the valley of the shadow of death." David lays a foundation for "Ann" of reality: the reality of her situation and the equal reality of God's loving care for her.

There may be no more cliché topic at this time of year than "resolutions," but David Powlison thinks Christians have something new and unique to say about it. For starters, we have One who keeps all the most important resolutions for us; One who never fails.

This week's podcast is part two of a visit inside a CCEF Training classroom, Tim Lane's Counseling in the Local Church class. In a segment of the class titled "Growth in Grace," Tim helps us understand how essential the community of the local church is in the sanctification of each of its members.

This week and next we take you back inside a CCEF Training classroom, this time Tim Lane's Counseling in the Local Church class. In a segment of the class titled "Growth in Grace," Tim helps us understand how essential the community of the local church is in the sanctification of each of its members.

Recently CCEF Executive Director Tim Lane and his wife Barbara traveled to Montreal, Canada, to share CCEF's "How People Change" curriculum with over 500 people at SEMBEQ Seminary in that city. SEMBEQ has formed a partnership with CCEF to assist in their mission of training pastors with a zeal for church planting. The seminary intentionally partners with local churches, and much of the seminarians' training takes place "on the job" in those churches. During their visit, Tim and Barbara sat down with Francois Turcotte & Francois Picard, two of SEMBEQ's leaders, to discuss their unique vision and mission, as well as how CCEF's teaching ministry has become an indispensible part of the training they offer. This podcast is taken from that conversation.