The preacher got up and looked at the congregation. ‘Too many of you are taking tablets for your depression. Where is your joy in the Lord? If you were depending on God, you wouldn’t need to take medication!’ I wish I could say that these words are fictional, but they are not. I have heard of depressed and anxious people having guilt added to their distress by such careless words.
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I came across Dr Rosaria Butterfield’s first book, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert, several years ago, and loved it. How unlikely a convert was she?
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We did not practice family worship in the house in which I was reared. My parents were good people, Christian people, and church–going people. Yet regular family devotions were not a feature of our home. We didn’t pray together, or read Scripture together, or sing praises together.
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Two thousand years ago, the apostle Paul lived in a culture which was utterly opposed to the truth claims of Christ. But he was confident that there is a truth that every human being knows:
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