A post that features some of the wisdom Zack Eswine gleaned from Charles Spurgeon about helping those who endure seasons of depression. Here Eswine unfolds four points from Spurgeon about the origins of ‘the tendency of impatient care toward depression’ as he seeks to express some dos and don’ts for helping sufferers. 1. We judge …
Zack Eswine continues to sensitively and wisely unfold the difference between the peace and assurance of God’s presence and live and the presumption of assuming that God must do certain things in a crisis. It’s distressing to hear and read presentations that misuse the Bible as simple illustrations for strands of pop-psychology, removed from any …
The negative emotions we feel are meant to cause us to reflect on self and circumstance to consider changing what we are doing or where we are. The current cultural moment is amplifying emotions. That amplification could manifest as an increase in generalised anxiety. The situation does not create the generalised anxiety, so much as …
Psalm 91 has featured in numerous reflections about the current social struggles to deal with the Covid-19 epidemic. Zack Eswine considers the same Psalm and offers wise counsel about listening well to those who are struggling to express their pain in a unique season of suffering. Honest naming isn’t safe for many of us. We’ve …
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