Weekly Roundup: Depression
This week, I curated articles related to depression. If you find yourself in this valley of life, please reach out to a Christian friend and pastor to have them speak love and truth into your life. No one has to struggle through the darkness alone.
Resources
Sorrow, Depression, and the Holidays | Eric Davis | The Cripplegate
Good truths to renew your strength in the midst of sorrow.
And Christmas time or not, many of us experience the normal, heavy weight of discouragement and depression as a regular thing; dejection, confusion, frustration, sadness, hopelessness, anxiousness, anger, darkness, despair.
But God has answers and real hope from his word for the battle.
Depression Fought Hard to Have Him | John Piper | Desiring God
This is a story about William Cowper, the famous hymn writer. You need to know it.
God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
He plants his footsteps in the sea,
And rides upon the storm.
On Pastoring Amid Depression | Blake Boylston | 9Marks
This is a 9Marks Pastor’s Talk. It gives an honest, helpful look at the pastor and depression, with testimony from one who has lived, and is living, through it.
15:14 Ep. 123—Depression | Dr. Bob Somerville | Biblical Counseling Coalition
Bob Somerville is a professor of biblical counseling at The Master’s Seminary. In this interview, he shares about his struggle with depression after taking the new professorship.
God Moves in a Mysterious Way | William Cowper
Judge not the Lord by feeble sense,
But trust him for his grace.
Behind a frowning providence,
He hides a smiling face. 1
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