Posted by Jimmy Adkins | Jul 30, 2020 | Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation (CCEF) |
Love is inconvenient. It actually has the audacity to ask us to drop what we’re doing in order to attend to the needs of another. It presses up against our desires for autonomy, comfort, ease, safety, and control. It punctures our bubble of self-importance and self-protection. It lifts our heads to look up and outward […]
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Posted by Jimmy Adkins | Jul 23, 2020 | Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation (CCEF) |
Even once you get there, a 40th wedding anniversary seems hard to believe. To me, it feels more like 20, since I barely have the knack of being a more sanctified husband. But whether I can imagine it or not, Sheri and I just celebrated 40 years of marriage. It became an opportunity to consider […]
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Posted by Jimmy Adkins | Jul 8, 2020 | Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation (CCEF) |
As a parent, how comfortable are you talking with your children about sex? Not so much? Why is that? God created sex to bless us—why is it so hard to talk about? For many, it is our own discomfort with the topic. Perhaps you did not grow up in an environment where it was discussed, […]
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Posted by Jimmy Adkins | Jul 1, 2020 | Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation (CCEF) |
“There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear” (1 John 4:18). These words from the apostle John tell us that love replaces—it casts out— fear. At first glance, this seems to put the biblical command to “fear the Lord” in jeopardy. But John is writing to those who fear judgment even […]
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Posted by Jimmy Adkins | Jun 24, 2020 | Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation (CCEF) |
Life is in the details. Listen to C. S. Lewis describe how our small, day-to-day decisions matter. Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, […]
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