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Category Archives: Despair
Depression – a balanced understanding
This is a good time to revisit and better understand the dark shadows of depression that creep over the souls of many. Continue reading
Posted in 18 Year factor, Depression, Despair, discouraged, Discouragement, Doctor, Holistic ministry, Loss, Medicine, Psychology, Sadness, Suicide, Wisdom
Tagged Death, Depression, Despair, loneliness, lonely, loss of hope, Suffering, Suicide, winter blues
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Remedy for discouragement
Gratitude is the one of the best remedies to discouragement. “What I have found is that the rhythm of divine renewal beats in the pulse of a purposefully grateful heart” (Ellen Vaughn, Radical Gratitude). I need divine renewal when my heart … Continue reading
Let me die
Four of God’s servants who wanted to die… Continue reading
Posted in Death, Despair, discouraged, Discouragement, Sadness, Suicide
Tagged Death, feel lonely, feel sad, Suicide, want to die
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Great leaders battle depression
Should the power of depression be more than ordinary, do to think that all is over with your usefulness. Continue reading
Posted in 18 Year factor, Christian Counselor, Counseling, Depression, Despair, discouraged, Discouragement, Encouragement, Loss, Sadness, Suicide
Tagged Depression, Despair, disappointment, feeling discouraged, fighting depression, Grief, hope for depressionn, loneliness, lonely, Loss, sad, Sadness
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Normal sadness or depressive disorder?
Have we lost our ability to distinguish biologically based depression from normal sadness? Continue reading
Allured by love
He promises to draw us apart, for there he can best deal with us, and this separated place is not to be a Paradise, but a wilderness, since in such a place… Continue reading
Posted in Depression, Despair, Disciple-making, Discipleship, discouraged, Discouragement, Doubt, Fear of death, Glorify God, God, God as Potter, God's Heart, God's Love, God's Protection, God's Will, Godly sorrow, Questioning God, Seeking God, Spiritual disciplines, Suffering, Trials, Walking with God, Will of God
Tagged doubting God, God's ways not our ways, hard times, Questioning God, struggling, temptations, Trials
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When forgotten and deserted
It hurts to be forgotten and deserted. But when faced with such experiences, we only multiply our pain when we choose… Continue reading
Posted in Bitterness, Comfort, Despair, Forgiveness, Resentment, Suffering, Trials
Tagged abandoned, deserted, forgotten, rejected by friends
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The science of hope
Intriguing look at hope and science. Hope is real, proven by science, and willpower is the switch (The right stimulus) that triggers this amazing ability to change for the better… Continue reading
Posted in 18 Year factor, Anxiety, Depression, Despair, feeling hopeless, Hope?, Neuroscience, Science
Tagged Despair, hope and the brain, loss of hope, power of hope, science of hope
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Four servants of God who battled fierce despair
Four servants of God. Each one reached an extremely low point in life. All of them felt that life was no longer worth living. Continue reading
Posted in Abuse, Addiction, Anger, Anxiety, Assurance, Bitterness, Broken Relationships, Call to ministry, Character, Childhood trauma, Christian life, Comfort, Complaceny, Conceit, Conflict, Contentment, Crisis, Depression, Despair, discouraged, Discouragement, Divine Lottery, Doubt, Elders, elders in the Church, Emerging Leaders, Emotions, Encouragement, Failure, Faith, Fear, feeling hopeless, Freedom, God's Patience, God's Heart, God's Love, Grace, Gratitude, Grieving, Hope?, Kindness, Leadership, Life of a pastor, Loss, marriage problems, Meaning of life, Mercy, Middle life, Mind Renewal, Nihilism, Pain, Pastors, personal, Praise, Prayer, purpose, Questioning God, Repentance, Sadness, Seeking God, Selfishness, Spiritual Detox, Spiritual inventory, Spiritual transformation, Suffering, Suicide, Temptation, Trials, Truth, Victory, Walking with God, Will of God, Wisdom, Worship
Tagged burn out, Despair, Discouraged, feeling lost, helpless, hopeless, loss of perspective, spiritual exhaustion, Suicide
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