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But, the Bible says, we are effectively doing the same thing if we try to help a depressed friend with superficial humor and insensitive exhortations to cheer up (Prov. 25:20).
“If my life is broken when given to Jesus, it is because pieces will feed a multitude, while a loaf will satisfy only a little lad
Reader, never ridicule the nervous and hypochondrichal, their pain is real; though much of the [malady] lies in the imagination thought-processes] it is not imaginary.5
We would do the same even for a person who accidentally shoots himself with a gun. We would get him to the hospital and give him whatever medical treatment he needs before addressing any sinful carelessness that may have caused the problem.
“Christians don’t understand how physical, psychological, and spiritual realms interrelate because Satan muddies the boundaries.
No matter how loving our parents have been, they will not always have reacted in the ways that we really needed. For some of us, our experience with our parents will have been largely a good one, for others it may have been very bad. Whatever your own experiences, it is likely that as you grew up you learned a range of helpful and unhelpful rules about how you see and judge yourself, other people and the world around you. It is in childhood that these central ways of seeing things are first learned from your relationship with important people such as parents, brothers or sisters. In these
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Deal with your sadness and anger by pouring your heart out to God.
