Companions in the Darkness: Seven Saints Who Struggled with Depression and DoubtThe church's relationship with depression has been fraught: for centuries, depression was assumed to be evidence of personal sin or even demonic influence. The depressed have often been ostracized or institutionalized. In recent years the conversation has begun to change, and the stigma has lessenedbut as anyone who suffers from depression knows, we still have a long way to go. In Companions in the Darkness, Diana Gruver looks back into church history

He is also a teaching elder and a trained biblical counselor

so to know him

preexistence and consummation

and practical at any life stage

’ ‘To never suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings

“He bridges the gap so many have identified between traditional systematic theology and biblical theology

is the Senior Minister of First Presbyterian Church

demonstrates how the Old Testament uses the Old Testament

the history and theology of English congregationalism (including Baptist congregationalism)

Magnifying God in Christ

it is impossible for anyone not to appreciate his warm and fair treatment of differing views and especially his presentation of the central truths of Revelation

’ To grasp that hope