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About the Episode
In this episode of the Hope + Help Podcast, host Christine Chappell interviews Ed Welch about his book, Depression: Finding Christ in the Darkness. Some of the questions addressed in this interview are:
• In what way does Jesus welcome those who are experiencing depression?
• Why is it true that “faith can feel good, and faith can feel horrible”?
• How does the gospel offer hope to those who fear that healing and change will never come?
• How might hopelessness “be anxiety that is exhausted”?
• How can we broach the topic of confession in such a way that is productive for the sufferer?
• How might sufferers can take aim at hopelessness by taking part in God’s “family business”?
• Why is it true that “God must fight [the sufferer’s] battle” and what makes this a reality they can rest in?
About the Guest
Edward T. Welch is a counselor and faculty member at the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation (CCEF). He is author of a number of books, including When People Are Big and God Is Small and Addictions: A Banquet in the Grave.
About the Book
The gospel is for those who have nothing, for those who are weary and bowed down. Jesus is near to you, and he asks you to bring him nothing but your failures, sins, and emptiness of soul. In thirty-one wise, deeply empathetic devotional readings, biblical counselor Ed Welch helps you to understand the darkness you are experiencing, to take the next small step that is possible for you today, to converse with Jesus honestly amid your pain—and ultimately to hear Christ’s words of compassion.
