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…

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…

(I am writing these little summaries in between the live blog entries to let you know how Fred and I experienced the conference–and to give you just a flavor of the live blogs in case you were scared off by the 60,000 word count. 🙂 ) We were SO tired Saturday morning–that east coast time zone thing is a killer. Plus, I was happily exhausted after spending time with three of the PeaceGals moderators (and Sarah Joy’s family!) at a real-Philly-cheese-steak-yummy restaurant: (Hi Sarah Joy, Ruth, and Emily!) But of course Fred and I were so excited for the day’s sessions that we jumped right out of bed and headed…

(I am writing these little summaries in between the live blog entries to let you know how Fred and I experienced the conference–and to give you just a flavor of the live blogs in case you were scared off by the 60,000 word count. 🙂 ) The last session Friday night was a roundtable discussion by CCEF Faculty of the case study about “Robbie” who has been “laid low and his family destroyed by two addictions: gambling and prescription pain meds.’ There were so many great nuggets in this session that I had a very hard time picking out just a few for you to review. Please do consider reading…

Dr. Monroe has graciously provided his powerpoints for this workshop on his blog: (http://wisecounsel.wordpress.com/) and I don’t think I have anything much to add to them from this workshop. If the topic interests  you, I encourage you to consider reading at least the end of the Live Blog transcription because I did capture the Q&A he did at the very end of his workshop.