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Physical Causes of Depression
In When the Darkness Will Not Lift, John Piper offers several reasons for why a Christian may suffer from melancholy–and its evil cousin, depression: sin, Satanic assault, distressing circumstances, or hereditary or other physical causes. He draws much of his wisdom from Puritan pastors who “never seemed to give up on anyone because of discouraging…
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Fighting Melancholy
What a dreary post that was yesterday, and it was my 300th! I should have been bragging about blogging and listing my favorite posts for everyone to read rather than sharing my OH LOOK, KITTENS!! To help remedy my downward thinking I sat down to read a little book (only 79 pages) of John Piper’s…
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Starting Again
Today begins the final week of my 30th year. For some reason this birthday has a sort of “looming over me ” quality to it. Perhaps it’s just because I’ve felt quite weary of life the last several months, and the thought of entering my third decade of life without much to show from the…
Leslie Wiggins 