by Terry_Powell | May 14, 2021 | Depression and Faith
The Psalms of Lament in the Old Testament are special to me. They offer a language in which to address God honestly about pain. A “lament” is taking our pain to God and expressing our raw emotions. Faith isn’t the absence of grief, doubt or despair;...
by Terry_Powell | May 7, 2021 | Depression and Faith
Late in 2020 I produced a 26.5 page, single-spaced document on depression for a strategic parachurch ministry. It wasn’t a document they would ever use “as is,” but it contained research as well as my own reflections, rooted in my study of the topic...
by Terry_Powell | Apr 20, 2021 | Depression and Faith |
I had slept more than usual the previous night, so I couldn’t blame insomnia for the lethargy of mind, body and spirit that blanketed me last Thursday. It’s how depression often expresses itself. A rank hopelessness. An all-consuming despair, which I often...
by Terry_Powell | Mar 31, 2021 | Christian Living in the Trenches, Church Leadership and Ministry, Depression and Faith
Discover how an attack of spiritual warfare should encourage you! A Reassuring Perspective I am not someone who looks for a demon behind every bush, who sensationalizes every setback as a satanic attack. Often Satan gets blamed for things for which we should...
by Terry_Powell | Mar 19, 2021 | Christian Living in the Trenches, Church Leadership and Ministry, Depression and Faith
Can you identify with any of the ways my thinking about life and ministry has changed over the years? Topics in this post include persistent praying, public weeping as a Bible teacher, a broken heart, temptation, indwelling sin of a believer, sources of identity,...
by Terry_Powell | Mar 11, 2021 | Christian Living in the Trenches, Depression and Faith
I never considered myself an idol worshiper until I read this remark by John Wesley a few years ago: “All pride is idolatry.” That’s when I realized that I am the idol before which my heart often bows. Who hasn’t had an inflated ego now and...
