{"podcast":{"title":"CCEF Podcast: Where Life & Scripture Meet","slug":"ccef-podcast-where-life-scripture-meet-650969","podcast_index_feed_id":650969,"rss_url":"https://ccef.libsyn.com/ccef","website_url":"https://www.ccef.org","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/8/1/f/f/81ff3bc69fe66d2316c3140a3186d450/ccef_podcast_branding-20231004-rr7gkuctx0.jpg","author":"Will Baublitz","episode_count":297,"summary":"How do the treasures of Scripture connect with the troubles of life? As Christians, we have the privilege and challenge of exploring this question. Join CCEF faculty as they consider how Scripture meets us in day-to-day life, covering topics such as anxiety, grief, relationships, and more. Where Life & Scripture Meet is a biblical counseling podcast from the Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation, which seeks to restore Christ to counseling and counseling to the church. Learn more at ccef.org.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-06T16:20:54.286091+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ccef-podcast-where-life-scripture-meet-650969"},"episode":{"title":"The Personal God Gets Personal with Us","slug":"the-personal-god-gets-personal-with-us","published_at":"2026-06-01T08:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ccef-podcast-where-life-scripture-meet-650969/the-personal-god-gets-personal-with-us","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ccef-podcast-where-life-scripture-meet-650969","url":"https://ccef.libsyn.com/the-personal-god-gets-personal-with-us","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/ccef/S7-E8-Distinctive1_-_v2.mp3?dest-id=467017","summary":"In this first episode of a new seven-part series on CCEF's distinctives, Gunner Gundersen sits down with Ed Welch and Jonathan Holmes to discuss the first distinctive: \"The personal God gets personal with us.\" Together, they reflect on how Scripture presents a God who draws near to his people: from the garden of Eden to the incarnation of Christ to the promised future where God will dwell with his people forever. The conversation explores how the Trinity shapes our understanding of relationships, counseling, church life, and personal ministry. These truths help churches to embody a \"culture of pursuit\" with warmth and hospitality as natural overflows of a real relationship with God. The episode also introduces CCEF's broader distinctives and explains why these priorities continue to shape the ministry's counseling, teaching, and care for the church. Mentioned in this episode: Our latest episode of the JBC: ccef.org/jbc Our distinctives: ccef.org/about/#distinctives Related resource: The Personal God | Article by David Powlison","meta_description":"In this first episode of a new seven-part series on CCEF's distinctives, Gunner Gundersen sits down with Ed Welch and Jonathan Holmes to discuss the first…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2446,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ccef-podcast-where-life-scripture-meet-650969/episodes/the-personal-god-gets-personal-with-us/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ccef-podcast-where-life-scripture-meet-650969/the-personal-god-gets-personal-with-us.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}