Depression: Purposed Pain

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2015

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Is depression a sin? Can a Christian be depressed and still godly? Thankfully we have pastor David Murray chiming in with his wisdom on the matter. David has authored many books, and a few of them deal with the topic of depression: The Happy Christian and Christians Get Depressed Too. In the Reformed tradition we believe our whole bodies are fallen, falling apart, and in the case of Carl’s hair, falling out. So how should we view depression in light of that? David & Co. confront the theology shaping our thoughts on depression and the difference knowing God can make for the depressed believer.This week the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals would like to offer you a chance to win David Murray's The Happy Christian. You can enter here to win, or visit Reformed Resources to purchase this product.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird.
0:26.3	Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:31.9	Depression can affect people from all different walks of life, even Christians.
0:36.6	David Murray stops by to join the host to talk about
0:39.6	depression. How can we help those who struggle with this affliction? And is there really such a thing as a
0:46.1	happy Christian? Keep listening after the conversation to find out how you can enter a drawing for
0:51.6	David Murray's newest book. All right, so today we are very excited and, dare I say, happy to have our special guest on David Murray.
1:07.0	He is a local church pastor.
1:09.0	He's also professor at Puritan Reform Theological Seminary, and you may know him by some of his more well-known books.
1:16.1	Christians get depressed too.
1:18.1	And his latest, The Happy Christian, which we just joked around, that there must be one out there somewhere.
1:24.6	Hi, David.
1:25.0	How are you doing?
1:25.9	Hi, Amy.
1:26.6	It's lovely to talk to you, and I'll tolerate
1:29.0	talking to the other two. That's typically how people feel. You are not worthy, brother. I'm the
1:35.5	happier one out of the three, I think. And, you know, I'm kind of, I'm just impressed about the fact
1:40.6	that you could write a book called the Happy Christian while you're living in Grand Rapids. As a Scotsman. That's impressive. The response to the book from the reformed
1:53.8	community has been very similar to your own. It's just like, what? Happy Christians? It's like
2:00.3	reform people.
2:01.7	We just don't do happy.
2:04.6	Do you feel like you have to like be openly happy now that you wrote a book like that?
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