Randy Alcorn talks to David Mathis here:
Here are some resources on battling depression and ministering to those who do:
- David Murray, Christians Get Depressed Too
- Edward T. Welch, Depression: Looking Up from the Stubborn Darkness
- Edward T. Welch, Depression: The Way Up When You Are Down (booklet)
- Jeffrey Black, Suicide: Understanding and Intervening (booklet)
- John Piper, When the Darkness Will Not Lift: Doing What We Can While We Wait for God—and Joy
- John Piper, “Battling the Unbelief of Despondency” (sermon)
- Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cure
- “Depression and the Ministry” (blog series by the Biblical Counseling Coalition and the Gospel Coalition)
For those in ministry, the writings by and about Charles Spurgeon on depression may be particularly valuable:
- Charles Spurgeon, “The Minister’s Fainting Fits” in Lectures to My Students
- Zack Eswine, Spurgeon’s Sorrows: Realistic Hope for Those Who Suffer from Depression
- Darrel W. Amundsen, “The Anguish and Agonies of Charles Spurgeon“
- John Piper, “Charles Spurgeon: Preaching through Adversity“
- Randy Alcorn on how Spurgeon’s writings on depression helped him go through his own depression in 2007 (part 1, part 2, part 3)
