I recently pointed to a new edition of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones’s classic, Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Its Cure The essence of this matter is to understand that this self of ours, this other man within us, has got to…
Contentment That Slippery Thing
Are you content? Amy Scott’s title observes that contentment is “slippery,” and that was enough to get me to read the post. I wasn’t disappointed, and my wife will like it even more. Yesterday I watched my son ride his…
Spiritual Depression – It’s Causes and Cures
If you struggle emotionally, then this is for you. If nothing else, allow the video to introduce you to D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones. I’m ordering it. HT: Challies
Stories of depression
If you struggle with depression, you are not alone. The Burning Center recently posted about a 20 year battle with depression. I have a number of posts in this category including some quotes from Lincoln (here). At our Saturday night…
Dan Phillips on battling depression
I’m looking forward to reading an advance copy of Dan Phillips forthcoming book on a biblical worldview. In the mean time, he offers wise counsel for those battling depression. Click here.
Do you have the “winter blues”?
David Murray prescribes 3 “pills” for those battling SAD (seasonal affective disorder). They are three pills I need to do a much better job taking. Are you SAD? from Puritan Reformed on Vimeo. See also Feeling down as the season…
How the greatest paragraph ever written was used to deliver a hymn writer from suicidal depression
If you struggle with depression – – and, what an awful battle that can be – – consider reading The Hidden Smile of God: The Fruit of Affliction in the Lives of John Bunyan, William Cowper, and David Brainerd (The…
Feeling a little down as the Season comes to an end?
I think the reason many are depressed over the holidays is because they do not know how to interpret the yearnings of their soul. I don’t suppose that there is anyone who has not experienced yearnings or longings of the…
Don’t Ask the Depressed, “How Are You Doing?”
Let me tell you something to avoid asking a friend who is feeling down. I am not saying it is always wrong, but be careful. Ask this question and you may make the situation worse. Here is the question to…
On the Suicide of Vincent van Gogh
Fred Sanders has written a reflection on van Gogh that will forever cause me to think differently about van Gogh’s painting, A Starry Night. Indeed, Sanders makes me want to visit the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Fred…