Your brain without Dad?

Nov 5, 2009 • By David Murray • 0 Comments

Read the rest of Al Mohler’s commentary here and the original Wall Street Journal article here. Does this have any implications for biblical counseling?

Pastors and suicide?

Nov 5, 2009 • By David Murray • 0 Comments

HICKORY, N.C. — What kind of personal pain would cause a 42-year-old pastor to abandon his family, his calling and even life itself? Members of a Baptist church here are asking that question after their pastor committed suicide in his parked car in September.
Those who counsel pastors say Christian culture, especially Southern evangelicalism, creates the perfect environment for depression. Pastors suffer in silence, unwilling or unable to seek help or even talk about it. Sometimes they leave the ministry. Occasionally the result is the unthinkable.

Read the rest here and ask yourself: “What can I do to help my Pastor?”

Why are we so angry?

Nov 3, 2009 • By David Murray • 0 Comments

Innovative diagnosis. Wrong prescription. Read whole article here.

Cure unhappiness - get alone!

Nov 3, 2009 • By David Murray • 0 Comments

I’m just back from Ontario, Canada, where I gave an address at Redeemer University on the Christian response to digital technology. I wish I’d had this Pascal quote (supplied by Justin Taylor) before I went:

I have often said that the soul cause of man’s unhappiness is that

he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

Read the rest of the blog post and some helpful responses here.

Time Magazine makes the case for humility!

Nov 2, 2009 • By David Murray • 0 Comments

Who wrote this?

“Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring.”

“But I heed Jane Austen’s warning that ‘nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.’”

The answer is….Time Magazine! Read the whole article here.