influence
I can choose to focus on the dreary or I can look for the sun – even if it’s only a glimpse before the clouds return.
Tag Archives: Depression
When the Sun Moves
It’s so like us to assume God has gone somewhere else – that God has left us on our own.
Advent Expectations
We come to Advent with many expectations: expectations of ourselves and others; expectations that our current circumstances can’t live up to.
deep
I haven’t really been feeling very deep lately.
It’s Time to Talk About It
In the depths of depression, my mind must fight against my own mind. I must continually remind myself that God is good; God is near; God loves me.
routine
Routine has never been my thing – until it was.
Restored to Hope
O that you would tear open the heavens and come down, so that the mountains would quake at your presence—as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil—to […]
Suffering and Hope
Can I know Christ if I am never poor, hungry, wretched or hated?
Protected
This post is a sermon from August 2012, a few months after I was diagnosed with depression. The summer series was in the Psalms and focused on different postures of […]
A Day in Capernaum: Proclaiming Release to the Prisoners
This week in worship, we reflected on Luke 4:31-44. Following are three vignettes of this day in Capernaum. When Jesus was in his hometown Nazareth (Luke 4:1-32), less than a […]