Losing My Religion

“To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: ‘The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands. 2 “‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil,...

How to Be Happy

I think we often approach happiness the same way I used to approach God’s will: it is this secret thing that’s hard to grasp and even harder to obtain. What even is happiness? And with the rising rates of depression, deaths of despair, and addiction in our society, is obtaining it even possible? I think it is. And I think you will be surprised at the kinds of things that tend towards happiness.

2025 Year in Review

The Lord blessed the ministry of CCC in 2025. Take a look at the numbers: Helping the Hurting 18,000 TOTAL SESSIONS Almost 18,000 counseling/psychiatric sessions were conducted in 2025. This makes us one of the largest explicitly Christian counseling centers in the...

2025 Year End Letter

Dear Friend, Grace and peace to you in this Christmas season! I often struggle knowing how to talk to someone during the Christmas season. On the one hand, this is the most joyous time of the year, when we get to meditate on the coming of the Savior into the world and...

Announcing Our New Sumter Location

We here at the Christian Counseling Center are elated to announce that we are expanding once more, this time into a second satellite location in Sumter, SC. Our new location is in Sumter’s Historic District at 232 W. Calhoun St., and we are currently open and serving...

The Director’s Summer Reading List

Looking for a light read at the beach? Well, the books here are probably not that, but might bring some new perspectives for you this summer on things like faith, mental health, and wellbeing. Submitted below are a few of my recommendations for some summer reading and...

Surviving Middle School and Middle Schoolers

I was recently talking to a group of parents and I asked the question; “What comes to mind when you think about parenting young adolescents/middle schoolers?” Survival! That was the answer. For many families, this is true. The middle...

Postpartum Depression: It’s OK to not be OK

“It will be the happiest time in your life.” “You will feel nothing but unconditional love.” “Don’t worry, being a mother will just come naturally.” These are very common phrases that moms-to-be often hear as they near the birth of their baby. Although these comments...

Fear

Earlier this week, my one year-old daughter was playing with a toy on the bed. I watched her pick up the toy, throw it off the bed onto the floor, and then in an attempt to retrieve the toy, dive headlong after it over the side of the bed. Totally unafraid of the fall...

Conflict

A few years back I spent time training with an improv comedy group. I wanted to learn the art of improvisation after having some experience doing sketch comedy. I quickly realized that while improv is essentially making up what you are performing on the fly, there are...

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