by Terry_Powell | May 26, 2021 | Christian Living in the Trenches, Depression and Faith
There is more than one type of homelessness. In cities across the United States, homeless individuals sleep on park benches, under bridges and on scraps of cardboard stretched out on sidewalks. In the suburbs of my hometown of Columbia, South Carolina, on busy street...
by Terry_Powell | May 20, 2021 | Christian Living in the Trenches, Depression and Faith
How has God put you together to encourage or to comfort others? When someone is needy or hurting, do you consistently give the gift of your physical presence, even when you are unsure what to say? Do you allow your nearness to express what mere words cannot? Does your...
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...
