Posted by Jimmy Adkins | Mar 11, 2020 | Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation (CCEF) |
Writing about events while they are happening is always a bit dangerous. It’s easy to encourage over-reactions and reinforce unhelpful panic in our hearts. That said, the COVID 19 coronavirus provides us with an opportunity to think about how we respond to anxiety. Specifically, I want to think about how we can handle the particular […]
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Posted by Jimmy Adkins | Mar 5, 2020 | Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation (CCEF) |
Why do we give in to temptation? This question often arises in the context of counseling for repetitive struggles such as pornography use, masturbation, substance abuse, and overeating. There are many biblical ways to answer this question, but I want to focus on just one: we give in to temptation because we get tired of […]
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Posted by Jimmy Adkins | Feb 26, 2020 | Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation (CCEF) |
At the 2020 Grammys, artist Demi Lovato took the stage for the first time in over 18 months. She performed her song Anyone, an emotional and urgent cry from the heart written hours before she was hospitalized for a drug overdose. As Lovato finished singing and opened her eyes, the stunned and tearful crowd rose […]
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Posted by Jimmy Adkins | Feb 19, 2020 | Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation (CCEF) |
Listen to Scripture, listen to people. This is how we grow in our care and counsel. And grow we must if we want to help someone who has stories beneath stories. Most addicts do. Flea is the bass player for the Red Hot Chili Peppers. He is a sensitive soul whose father left when he […]
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Posted by Jimmy Adkins | Feb 5, 2020 | Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation (CCEF) |
Following Jesus’s Lead All the biblical stories of the Lord moving toward people are stories of grace. Grace is God’s moving toward us in Christ. He pursued us not because we called out so well and took the first step of self-reformation. We were simply sick and needed him. Or worse, we were enemies who […]
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