by Terry_Powell | Jun 28, 2018 | Depression and Faith |
Spring 1988 Pat, our Associate Pastor’s wife, heard that I’d been experiencing debilitating fatigue, plus strange neurological symptoms (numbness in limbs and hand tremors). She also knew that during my study leave from Columbia Bible College (now Columbia...
by Terry_Powell | Jun 20, 2018 | Depression and Faith
June 16, 2018 A Day When Faith Made a Difference What invaded my spirit today wasn’t the searing emotional pain that opens the floodgates to my tear ducts, until a pool forms on my shirt or the floor. Not a throbbing heartache that made me doubt whether...
by Terry_Powell | Jun 18, 2018 | Depression and Faith
Chronic Joy Ministry posted: “Fifteen years into fatherhood, mental illness burst into my son’s life and took up long-term residence. So did chaos, friction, tears, lying, arguments, anger, and disrespect. Then drugs. Then jail. Then death. As is often the...
by Terry_Powell | Jun 15, 2018 | Depression and Faith |
Introductory Note: In two recent posts I focused on an aspect of salvation doctrine to assuage depression and inject a more grateful spirit into our thinking: “Quick Decision Rendered In Superior Court Case” and “Phantom Pain.” Different...
by Terry_Powell | Jun 13, 2018 | Depression and Faith
Depression that leads to suicide is no respecter of persons. It isn’t just the plight of the financially-strapped, unemployed provider of a household, or the teen who’s tormented by bullies at school, or the aging retiree who’s weary of declining...
