CCEF: Addictions Conference

"On behalf of CCEF, I would like to invite you to our 2008 conference. I think the lineup this year is superb as you learn from a group of people who bring a wide variety of experience to this topic. This year's conference is for all who struggle with addiction, and for all who want to help them. You will see as you read the elective descriptions that some will be of particular benefit to pastors, ministry leaders and counseling professionals."

- Tim Lane, Executive Director

"The Bible is quite savvy when it comes to our temptations. God, after all, knows the human heart and sees everything. But there is more. Contrary to expectations, God goes into the streets, the alleys, the bars to find the addicted and the stuck and offer them freedom.

The aim of our Annual Conference is to accurately describe how God pursues and frees stuck people. Prepare to be inspired. And, in keeping with how God speaks to the nitty-gritty details of life, prepare to be equipped with specific strategies and skills for your life and ministry."

Speakers include:

Mark Driscoll

Ed Welch

Tim Lane

Winston Smith

Michael Emlet

David Powlison

For more information visit CCEF.

Addictions, a banquet in the grave

Another great book by Edward Welch. He is member of CCEF, the Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation.

I am currently reading this book with the hopes of sharing some of it's helpful & insightful truths at a local jail. Other books and programs have been considered, however, this one came highly recommended as one which is very Christ-centered. As with other helpful books from CCEF such as How People Change, Instruments in the Redeemers Hands, and more, this book reaches deeply into the powerful truths of the gospel to apply them to many of life's struggles and issues.

"When you look at it closely, drunkenness is a lordship problem. Who is your master, God or your desires? Do you desire God above all else, or do you desire something in creation more than you desire the Creator? At root, drunkards are worshipping another god - alcohol. Drunkenness violates the command "You shall have no other gods before me."

"This alcohol worship is actually a form of self-worship."

(Addictions Pg. 23)

This book, as well as the others from CCEF, wields the powerful Scriptures effectively against the enemies of addictions, self-worship, and God-lessness. I know that, according to Scripture, God's word never goes forth in vain but always accomplishes that which He intended it to. Because of this Scriptural principle I believe time will prove these books from CCEF to be tremendously effective weapons in the war against sin.