Book Review: When the Darkness Will Not Lift, John Piper
When the Darkness Will Not Lift: Doing What We Can While We Wait for God–and Joy
Publisher: Crossway/Good News
ISBN: 1581348762
Paperback, 79 pages
There are many books that go into a great more detail than When the Darkness Will Not Lift about methods of dealing with depression, but few will equal the pastoral touch brought to this difficult subject by John Piper. This book will serve as an encouragement not only to those suffering their own loss of joy—and who among us has not at some time—but especially for those who try to care for such a one. As always, Piper does not settle for easy answers or quick formulas. However, he is unflinching in pointing us always God-ward, with God as revealed in Christ as the only satisfaction to our deepest longings and needs. - Mark Traphagen, Westminster Bookstore Staff, January 2007
Because of the brevity of this work, those seriously engaging this topic will want to dig deeper. Books specifically recommended by Piper in When the Darkness Will Not Lift include:
- The Bruised Reed by Richard Sibbes
- Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures by Martin Lloyd-Jones
- When I Don’t Desire God: How to Fight for Joy by John Piper
- Future Grace by John Piper
- Blame It on the Brain: Distinguishing Chemical Imbalances, Brain Disorders, and Disobedience by Edward T. Welch
- Tell the Truth: The Whole Gospel to the Whole Person by Whole People by Will Metzger
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