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Ed Welch

Ed Welch is a faculty member and counselor at the Christian Counseling & Education Foundation (CCEF). He has counseled for over forty years and has written extensively on the topics of depression, fear, and addictions. He is the author of several books, including Created to Draw Near: Our Life as God’s Royal Priests.

Should Pastors Encourage Secular Therapy? A Guide for Christian Ministry

Should Pastors Encourage Secular Therapy?

A Guide for Christian Ministry

With the rise of secular therapy, how should pastors think about this kind of care? How should we shepherd people in our churches who are seeing a therapist?

Will My Marriage Ever Be More? Counsel for Disappointed Wives

Will My Marriage Ever Be More?

Counsel for Disappointed Wives

Every marriage is hard in one way or another. Some of the hardest, though, aren’t hard in loud ways, but in quieter, less obvious ways.

Back and Forth with God: A Sentence That Reshaped My Relationships

Back and Forth with God

A Sentence That Reshaped My Relationships

Obeying God and knowing the truth about God is no substitute for the thrilling, essential, life-shaping experience of communing with God himself.

Closeness Comes Through Fire: How Suffering Conforms Us to Christ

Closeness Comes Through Fire

How Suffering Conforms Us to Christ

We know God uses suffering to refine and sanctify us, but how? Often, simply by drawing us nearer to him than we were in our comfort.

Counseling the Body: First Steps for Holistic Soul Care

Counseling the Body

First Steps for Holistic Soul Care

Good counseling seeks to uncover and address the deepest issues of the soul. And sometimes the path to the soul runs through the body.

Why We Long for Intimacy with God

Why We Long for Intimacy with God

The desire for intimacy with God is built into our spiritual DNA in the new birth. God made us to draw near to him, and Jesus makes it possible.

Darkness Does and Will Descend

Darkness Does and Will Descend

When darkness descends, remember that God’s faithfulness is more real than the thoughts in your head and the feelings in your chest.

Six Ordinary Lessons for Mental-Health Issues

Six Ordinary Lessons for Mental-Health Issues

You do not need to be a mental-health expert to care for those with mental illness. Here are six ways to give ordinary help for complicated problems.

Doubt Your Own Anger: How to Kill a Quiet Killer

Doubt Your Own Anger

How to Kill a Quiet Killer

The more extreme our anger, the more confident we are that we are right. As a result, angry people are the last to know that they are sinfully angry.

Two Underused Strategies for Addiction

Two Underused Strategies for Addiction

Each day there are more people enslaved by a broader array of substances and activities. To sexual obsessions, add illegal drugs, then the prescription narcotics, then gaming, and there are more to come. As the church, we want to draw out fresh insights from Scripture, and move toward the enslaved.

Does God Really Love You?

Does God Really Love You?

Answering the Interrogation of Suffering

Your suffering is a great enticement to Satan. He and his anti-God federation are irresistibly attracted to persistent pain. Notice how he obsesses over Job’s misery. Notice how he shows up in the wilderness at the height of Jesus’s weakness…

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A Battle Plan Against Pornography

We can fight pornography, but we have to want to battle it. We need a plan and some backup from fellow soldiers if we hope to see victory.

Ask Pastor John

Fear, Anxiety, and Growth in Godliness

When fear and anxiety creep up, we can cling to the most precious promise of all: God is with us, and he hears us.

Ask Pastor John

Battling Anxiety Is a Blessed Struggle

To our fears, God speaks beautiful promises. And the most precious of all may just be that he is with us, always and forever.

Acting the Miracle

Acting the Miracle

God’s Work and Ours in the Mystery of Sanctification

In this little book, John Piper, David Mathis, and other theologians set out to help us see and savor God’s holiness that we might strive to be holy.

Biblical Counseling

Theology Refresh: Podcast for Christian Leaders

Ed Welch gives the essence of biblical counseling in 10 minutes

Conference Message

Sinners Learning to Act the Miracle: Restoring Broken People and the Limits of Life in the Body

Desiring God 2012 National Conference

In this message Ed Welch introduces psychiatric diagnoses, theological tools to help those who identify with them, and what sanctification can look like in the midst of weakness.

Panel Discussion

Speaker Panel

Desiring God 2012 National Conference

Holiness is something that Christians must strive for, but the act of our striving is only pleasing to God if it is done by faith.

A Broken Past and the Miracle of Sanctification

The Spirit makes us alive in Christ, and then he begins the gradual, though inexorable, work of sanctification in our lives. That is clear. But it can get complicated. A broken brain is one possible complication. What if someone has…

Power in Weakness: Living Out the Miracle of Sanctification

Scripture is both shocking and ordinary, which is what we would expect from a book that is of divine origin. It is shocking; it takes us to places that no human mind could conceive. It is ordinary; it reveals miracles…

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