by Terry_Powell | Feb 1, 2016 | Bible Teaching and Small Group Ministry
For 45 years, I’ve been teaching Bible in both formal and informal venues. Here are truths that have cultivated resiliency within me despite the inadequacy, warfare, and weariness that accompany a teaching ministry. You’ll profit more from this post if you read...
by Terry_Powell | Jan 15, 2016 | All |
What follows is a journal entry from 2005. The first part sounds bleak. I was knee-deep in a depressive episode and couldn’t slog my way out. I’m posting it to show you how depression expresses itself in the minds or emotions of some Christian workers you may know...
by Terry_Powell | Jan 8, 2016 | Church Leadership and Ministry
When is the last time you saw a Christian leader weep? Have you ever heard a preacher or conference Bible teacher apologize because he or she shed tears while speaking? Do you associate public weeping with emotional instability, weakness, or embarrassment? When it...
by Terry_Powell | Dec 23, 2015 | Christian Living in the Trenches |
It just doesn’t feel like Christmas this year. The joyful anticipation I once had prior to December 25 has evaporated as I get older. Maybe it’s because the kids are grown and I don’t get to observe their excitement any more.I tend to feel depressed the closer we...
by Terry_Powell | Dec 4, 2015 | Stories to Encourage and Inform
The delay in fulfilling his calling was unexpected and frustrating. After six years of intensive outreach in China, at age 29, Hudson Taylor returned to England, a furlough prompted by poor health. For five years he waited to return, all the while burdened by the...
