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Overlooking an Offense (HT: Tim Challies)
Tim Challies has a great post on overlooking that I encourage you to read: Overlooking an Offense His main points are: 1. Examine Yourself 2. Examine Yourself Again: Are You Right? 3. Determine the Importance 4. Look for Patterns 5. Be Sensitive 6. Seek Counsel And I’ll close with his closing words (on seeking counsel) to tempt you to (hopefully) click on through: “It may be valuable to seek the counsel of other mature Christians before pursuing confrontation. You will want to ensure that this is not simply an opportunity to gossip and vent, after which you will feel better and let the matter drop. But discreetly seeking wise…
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Summaries and then I’ll be OFFLINE for a couple of days …
Hi again, friends! Just a quick note to let you know that I’m working furiously to write some quick summaries from the CCEF Conference and then intersperse them back over the last five days in between the applicable Live Blogs. So … if these topics are of interest to you at all, please jump back to last Thursday (November 13) and look for the summaries (especially if you’ve been scared off a bit by my 60,000 word count on the actual Live Blogs! I assure you that my summaries are much shorter). You may need to click on the “archive” section of my blog to read all of them. UPDATE…
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CCEF Conference Reflections (& Pictures)
Fred and I are sitting on the floor of the Philadelphia International airport (because that is the only way we could plug in our laptops), just about to board our first flight home. Fred is pulling off all of my live blog texts from the CCEF Conference so that, hopefully, I’ll be able to re-read through them (without a live internet connection) and possibly write some reflections on our flights home. (Ummmm … I just love being able to work on airplanes. Not only do I hope to get these posts written, I also have a bunch of actionable emails that I just haven’t been able to get to in…
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Summary of Tim Lane’s Plenary: ‘Godly Intoxication’ (CCEF Conference Live Blog)
Well … it was very hard to see the CCEF Conference coming to an end. But it’s not hard for me to come to the end of typing these summaries! 🙂 I am just chomping at the bit to get to my darling Sophia. Before I go, however, please enjoy just a few notes from Dr. Tim Lane’s plenary, “Godly Intoxication”: For the most part, we’ve been working within the context of our first part of our mission statement–restoring Christ to counseling. There has been this emphasis of trying to think of how the wisdom and breadth and depth and grace and redemptive message of the Bible intersect into this…
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CCEF Conference Sunday AM Plenary: Godly Intoxification (Tim Lane)
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Summary of David Powlison’s Plenary: ‘Escape to Reality’ (CCEF Conference Live Blog)
The worship on this wonderful Sabbath morning was great. Please click through to the Live Blog to see the words of the hymns (and a few links to Getty videos that I was able to find too–wow! that is a great fiddler!). But the highlight was, of course, the “Sunday School” lesson taught by Dr. David Powlison and the “sermon” given by Dr. Tim Lane. (I put those words in quotes to be clear that, of course, a session at a parachurch conference–as wonderful as it is–is not the same thing as a local church service.) Here are just a few of my notes from Dr. Powlison’s teaching: I’m going…
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CCEF Conference Sunday AM Plenary: Escape to Reality (David Powlison)
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Summary of workshop, ‘Counseling Addicts in Your Church by Jeffrey S. Black (CCEF Conference Live Blog)
This was a profound and wonderful workshop. I heartily encourage you to read the Live Blog transcript and anything you can get your hands on by Pastor Jeffrey S. Black. Having the opportunity to learn from people like this? People with such keen minds, filled with the Spirit, lovers of God’s Word, lovers of Christ, churchmen with so much life experience living the gospel out in real life? And then to have these men be filled with such humility? Well. Let me just say that I am a Pastor Jeffrey S. Black fan and I am looking forward to reviewing all of my CCEF Journal of Biblical Counseling articles by…
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CCEF Conference: Counseling Addicts in Your Church (Jeffrey Black)
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Summary of Mike Emlet’s Plenary: ‘Groaning and Glory: The New Testament and Addiction’ (CCEF Conference Live Blog)
Mike Emlet started off by showing us one of his prized possessions: a mug. No ordinary mug. It’s a pessimist’s mug; bought for him by a formal intern at www.despair.com. (I kid you not.) What makes this a pessimist’s mug? Half way up, there is a line and the words, “This mug is now half empty.” And with that, Dr. Emlet began his plenary session … Can you resonate with despair.com? Pessimism? I now know Mark Driscoll does. Do you? Or are you a cup half full kind of person? More specifically, when it comes to the battle with life-altering sins, what should have? How much change can we really…