by Terry_Powell | Mar 9, 2020 | Depression and Faith
You are grieving the death of your husband. Who can best help you process the loss of a decades-long companion? To whom will you voice your heart-rending pain? Who can help you navigate the difficult transition to living alone, to managing life and making choices all...
by Terry_Powell | Feb 22, 2020 | Depression and Faith
What factors deepen and expand our ministry to hurting people? Valid answers include a sound grasp of Bible knowledge, identification and exercise of our spiritual gift(s), and a willingness to sacrifice our convenience and time precisely when others most need help....
by Terry_Powell | Feb 13, 2020 | Depression and Faith
A Note from Terry: This is a guest post by Cindee Snider Re, co-founder, along with Pamela Piquette, of Chronic Joy (A Faith-based Chronic Illness Ministry). Chronic Joy has blogs and curriculum resources for needs in several categories: chronic illness or pain;...
by Terry_Powell | Jan 31, 2020 | Depression and Faith
What things obscure a Christian’s view of the cross of Christ? What keeps us from experiencing all the benefits of the cross graciously lavished on us when we put our faith in Jesus’ sacrificial death? Here are a few of the obstructions, but I’ll put the most...
by Terry_Powell | Jan 17, 2020 | Depression and Faith
The closest thing I have to a “man cave” is my home office. In addition to my desk and a computer and files, you see old photos of childhood baseball teams, personalized, special gifts given to me over the years by students, and numerous souvenirs from...
by Terry_Powell | Jan 6, 2020 | Depression and Faith
I’ve never claimed that saturating myself in God’s Word and applying its truths eliminate my depression. But to use an old Amish phrase, I can say “for sure and for certain” that the Bible helps me deal with despondency, lowers the intensity of...
