by Terry_Powell | Aug 19, 2018 | Depression and Faith |
An unanticipated diagnosis causes your heart to lurch: cancer. Your company replaces you with a younger executive who costs them less. Your fiancé pierces your heart, reneging on his commitment, infatuated by someone else. Will your long-held desire for a husband...
by Terry_Powell | Aug 9, 2018 | Depression and Faith
Even in a person not prone to depression, delays fuel discouragement. For those of us susceptible to despondency, waiting for something important can exacerbate the condition. Here’s a revised version of an article I wrote years ago that has been tucked away in...
by Terry_Powell | Aug 4, 2018 | Depression and Faith
When we think He’s frowning at us, the opposite may be true. He had accepted Christ as a child, and lived out his faith through his high school years. His parents were strong Christians. But he didn’t handle well the adjustment of leaving home for...
by Terry_Powell | Aug 1, 2018 | Depression and Faith |
A Prayer for Change Three Steps Forward, Two Steps Back. That’s the title of a Charles Swindoll paperback I read in the 1980s. That’s a realistic depiction of spiritual formation. At best, it is a zigzagging line on a graph, showing highs and lows. Over...
by Terry_Powell | Jul 29, 2018 | Depression and Faith |
Vibrant. Handsome. Warm. That describes the face of the 36-year-old who stared at me today from the obituary page, squeezing my heart to the point of pain. I didn’t know him personally. A college honors graduate. A sensitive person who regularly volunteered...
by Terry_Powell | Jul 21, 2018 | Depression and Faith |
When I was younger, I had the idea that God existed for my sake. Now I see from God’s Word that I exist for His sake. When I was younger, I had a passion to speak for God. Now I am desperate for God to speak to me. When I was younger, I wanted to glorify God by...
