{"id":2319,"date":"2011-10-05T15:45:22","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T21:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=2319"},"modified":"2011-10-05T15:51:47","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T21:51:47","slug":"resources-on-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/resources-on-depression\/","title":{"rendered":"Resources on Depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Sunday, Ryan preached a sermon from Psalm 3, titled, &#8220;When Your Whole World is On The Brink.&#8221; Psalm 3 is one of many psalms that express lament for lamentable circumstances and, ultimately, hope in God&#8217;s saving power and goodness.<\/p>\n<p>In his sermon, Ryan showed us how Psalm 3 gives us an example of how our own thoughts and prayers and feelings can progress: Lament (1-2),\u00c2\u00a0Remembrance (3-5), Resolve (6), Request (7-8).\u00c2\u00a0This psalm, along with others like it, provides a helpful prayer template for our own laments, sadnesses, discouragements, and depression.<\/p>\n<p>Below are a number of helpful resources for thinking through and wrestling with depression:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/messages\/By_Series\/Seminar:Depression\/\">Saturday Seminar: Depression<\/a><\/em>, DSC audio lectures by Ryan Kelly<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Depression-Stubborn-Darkness-Light-Edward-Welch\/dp\/0976230801\/desesprichur-20\">Depression, A Stubborn Darkness: Light for the Path<\/a><\/em>, Book by Ed Welsch<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Depression-When-Resources-Changing-Lives\/dp\/0875526829\/ref=pd_sim_b9\/desesprichur-20\">Depression: The Way Up When You are Down<\/a>,<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0Booklet by Ed Welsch<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ligonier.org\/learn\/articles\/heart-depression\/\">The Heart of Depression<\/a>,&#8221; Article by Ed Welsch<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ligonier.org\/learn\/articles\/dark-night-soul\/\">The Dark Night of The Soul<\/a>,&#8221; Article by R.C. Sproul<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/spiritualdepression.grantedministries.org\/\">Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures<\/a><\/em>, Book by Martyn Lloyd Jones<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/When-Darkness-Will-Lift-God\/dp\/1581348762\/ref=pd_sim_b3\/desesprichur-20\">When the Darkness Will Not Lift: Doing What We Can While We Wait for God \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and Joy<\/a><\/em>, Book by John Piper<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/resources\/a\/Darkness-of-Depression-with-Mohler\">Darkness of Depression<\/a>,&#8221; Radio Interview with David Powlison<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccef.org\/depression-purely-biological\">Is Depression Purely Biological?<\/a>,&#8221; Video with David Powlison<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/resource-library\/biographies\/charles-spurgeon-preaching-through-adversity\">Charles Spurgeon: Preaching Through Adversity<\/a>,&#8221; Message\/Biography by John Piper<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ed Welsch discussing depression:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-85EEZsCri8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[RSS and email readers,\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-85EEZsCri8\">click here<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0to view this video]<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, due to audio equipment issues, the audio for Ryan&#8217;s sermon is not available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Sunday, Ryan preached a sermon from Psalm 3, titled, &#8220;When Your Whole World is On The Brink.&#8221;&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/resources-on-depression\/\">Continue Reading &rsaquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2319"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2332,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319\/revisions\/2332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}