Craig Marshall talks with Pastor Zack Eswine about the wisdom literature and how these underused texts can inform our counseling and illuminate how Jesus spoke to suffering people.
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Slowing Down and Listening
Craig Marshall talks with Pastor Scott Mehl what he has learned doing biblical counseling through church planting. How can we practice discipleship well and create meaningful relationships?
A Fool’s Story: From Simple-ism to Hope {Transcript}
What do you do when someone you love leaves? And how do you pursue someone who has hurt you, who has sinned against you?
Whether you are dealing with an unfaithful marriage partner, a rebellious child, or a wayward friend, the counsel you offer needs to be pursued in a gospel-rooted approach, grounded in truth and practiced in the midst of Christian community.
This resource was recorded live at the 2018 Institute: Loving Wayward Souls: Grace for our Prodigals
Sage Healing: The Remedies Wisdom Trusts
Sometimes fixes can’t come quickly or at all (at least in the way we want). What do we offer others when the puzzle isn’t solved and a quick fix isn’t an option? The wisdom literature of the Bible shows us the way in Jesus.
Sage Listening: The Talk Wisdom Uses
Sometimes the best way to overcome defensiveness for those in sorrows, sins or skepticisms is to cultivate the language of metaphor and indirect speech. Jesus, as the fulfillment of the Bible’s wisdom literature, teaches us this lost art.
Sage Presence: The Welcome Wisdom Offers
When we counsel, parent or befriend someone with trials and troubles, how can we cultivate a listening presence? The wisdom literature of the Bible points us to Jesus and shows us how.
A Fool’s Story: From Simple-ism to Hope
What do you do when someone you love leaves? And how do you pursue someone who has hurt you, who has sinned against you?
Whether you are dealing with an unfaithful marriage partner, a rebellious child, or a wayward friend, the counsel you offer needs to be pursued in a gospel-rooted approach, grounded in truth and practiced in the midst of Christian community.
This resource was recorded live at the 2018 Institute: Loving Wayward Souls: Grace for our Prodigals
Finding Rest When There Isn’t Any part 1 {Transcript}
In Ecclesiastes, we learn from Solomon about the errors that leaders are prone too. Too easily we forget we’re human and need rest just like everyone else. This session urges pastors to recover the virtue of rest and to be reminded of the Edenic rhythm that God intended for everyone.
026 Zack & Jessica Eswine on ‘Spurgeon’s Sorrows’
Craig Marshall’s talk with Zack & Jessica Eswine continues with a discussion of another one of Zack’s books, Spurgeon’s Sorrows. This book looks to the life of Charles Spurgeon to glean biblical insight into depression. Understanding the relationship between depression and sin can be very confusing and divisive. How should we think about their relationship? What language does Scripture give us for these heavy feelings?
025 Zack & Jessica Eswine on ‘The Imperfect Pastor’
Earlier this year at the Ministry Weekend, Craig Marshall sat down with Zack & Jessica Eswine to talk about their life and Zack’s book, The Imperfect Pastor. As opposed to a quick fix, Zack maintains the importance of recognizing our limitations and learning to slow down in the midst of difficult seasons.
Depression: Biblical Mentoring From Fellow Strugglers
This session looks at Charles Spurgeon’s raw, honest descriptions of his depression and bodily pain. It also explores how consoling the sorrowful may mean looking to the Jesus of Gethsemane, where we see how He is with us and knows our pain.
Depression: How Do We Care For Those Who Struggle?
We often jump to conclusions about other people’s sin. Strong-minded people are very apt to be hard on the weak and those depressed in spirit. Drawing from the Bible’s wisdom literature, this session urges us to resist simplistic thinking and trite answers, and learn how to enter into the pain of those who are hurting.
Depression: What Do We Do If We Have it?
God often takes us through long trials rather than quickly bringing deliverance. This session looks at the Psalms, where we see biblical heroes like David at his lowest points and in deepest despair. We aren’t the first nor the last to feel this way and we can’t use Scripture superstitiously to wave away problems.
Depression: What Is It?
To care well for those who are depressed we need a theology of sadness itself. The Bible reminds us of the wisdom of meditating on grief and how it is wise to be sad about sad things and foolish to be shallowly mirthful. This session helps us all to learn how to weep with those who weep.
The Pastor as Caregiver: Learning to Listen
Drawing from the wisdom literature of the Bible, this session urges leaders to heed the call to be quick to listen and slow to speak. The fool thinks they know the answers before they know the questions. We can only truly begin to care for others after having first listened ourselves.
Finding Rest When There Isn’t Any part 2
Leaders are not meant to be everywhere at once. Nor were they ever meant to fix it all. This session calls us acknowledge our own limitations and be attentive to how Christ enters into the midst of ongoing difficult circumstances.
Finding Rest When There Isn’t Any part 1
In Ecclesiastes, we learn from Solomon about the errors that leaders are prone too. Too easily we forget we’re human and need rest just like everyone else. This session urges pastors to recover the virtue of rest and to be reminded of the Edenic rhythm that God intended for everyone.
New Audios Now Available!
The first audio from the 2017 Ministry Weekend is now available! We will be releasing the others over the next week. Here’s how you can listen to a new audio every day.
Depression: Biblical Mentoring From Fellow Strugglers {Transcript}
This session looks at Charles Spurgeon’s raw, honest descriptions of his depression and bodily pain. It also explores how consoling the sorrowful may mean looking to the Jesus of Gethsemane, where we see how He is with us and knows our pain.
Depression: How Do We Care For Those Who Struggle? {Transcript}
We often jump to conclusions about other people’s sin. Strong-minded people are very apt to be hard on the weak and those depressed in spirit. Drawing from the Bible’s wisdom literature, this session urges us to resist simplistic thinking and trite answers, and learn how to enter into the pain of those who are hurting.
Depression: What Do We Do If We Have it? {Transcript}
God often takes us through long trials rather than quickly bringing deliverance. This session looks at the Psalms, where we see biblical heroes like David at his lowest points and in deepest despair. We aren’t the first nor the last to feel this way and we can’t use Scripture superstitiously to wave away problems.
Depression: What Is It? {Transcript}
To care well for those who are depressed we need a theology of sadness itself. The Bible reminds us of the wisdom of meditating on grief and how it is wise to be sad about sad things and foolish to be shallowly mirthful. This session helps us all to learn how to weep with those who weep.
The Pastor as Caregiver: Learning to Listen {Transcript}
Drawing from the wisdom literature of the Bible, this session urges leaders to heed the call to be quick to listen and slow to speak. The fool thinks they know the answers before they know the questions. We can only truly begin to care for others after having first listened ourselves.