David Powlison, the executive director of the Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation, has revealed following major surgery that he has stage 4 pancreatic cancer.
“I am deeply thankful for your continuing prayers, expressions of support, and encouragement. I am now recuperating at home from a delicate, major surgery,” Powlison wrote in an update on the CCEF website last week.
“The outcome proved to be very different from what my doctors hoped and expected. We all went into this surgery thinking it was a stage 1 operable tumor; mid-way through, the surgeon discovered that it is stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Needless to say, this is hard news. We are just beginning to process it,” he added.
The senior editor of the Journal of Biblical Counseling said that he and his wife, Nan, are focusing on pain management and healing, seeking comfort in Jesus Christ.
“Next week’s days will bring a different focus as we meet with our oncologist to begin discussing options and scenarios going forward,” Powlison wrote.
“We are comforted by the liveliness of God’s words to us. He is with us, as so…
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