Category: depression
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My Name is Not…
I sat with a missionary the other day who wanted to stop in and thank our church for our years of support. It was a fantastic time to reconnect before she went back into the field and continued serving the nation God has called her to. She started telling me stories of people whose lives…
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Light into the Darkness: Journaling Through a Depressed Heart
Sitting early this morning in the coffee shop, I had just finished reading John 15:26-27. I sat in stillness at the word Jesus used to describe the Holy Spirit jumped off the page. The Advocate, or Comforter. In scripture, the Psalmist calls this “selah” (stop, pause, think). And in the midst of meditating on the words of my…
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Reflections from a Depressed Pastor: 2 Thoughts about Depression
I’ll start this off as I have my previous blogs on the subject: My name is David. And I’m a pastor who deals with bouts of depression. I don’t write as one who is specialized in the medical or psychological field, but as one who fights a personal battle while refusing to let others stand alone…
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