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Book Review: Depression: A Stubborn Darkness
by Dr. Ed Welch Well-meaning Christians will try to explain how being a part of the Kingdom of God makes depression impossible for a believer. They may say, “Depression isn’t part of the abundant life Jesus promised his disciples. Depression isn’t mentioned as being a hallmark of God’s Kingdom.” While that may be true, the…
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Does Unconfessed Sin Clog Our Joy?
I am continuing to read John Piper’s little book When the Darkness Will Not Lift and sharing some of my own struggle with melancholy. In chapter 4, Piper turns to the issue of sin in our lives and how it can rob us of our joy in God. He writes, Sin destroys joy. It offers…
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"Work"-ing through Depression
Chapter 3 of Piper’s little book, When the Darkness Will Not Lift, is entitled, “Fold Not the Arms of Action.” Piper writes, “Waiting for the Lord in a season of darkness should not be a time of inactivity. We should do what we can do. And doing is often God’s appointed remedy for despair.” He…
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Set Your Mind
You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. Isaiah 26:3 Remember this and stand firm, recall it to mind, you transgressors, remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring…
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Lean Hard!
I hope this encourages you as much as it did me. “Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee.” Psalm 55:22 It is by an act of simple, prayerful faith we transfer our cares and anxieties, our sorrows and needs, to the Lord. Jesus invites you come and lean upon Him, and…
Leslie Wiggins 