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Christine Chappell

Christine Chappell is the author of Midnight Mercies: Walking with God through Depression in Motherhood. She is a certified biblical counselor and currently serves as the Hope + Help Podcast host for the Institute for Biblical Counseling & Discipleship. Christine lives in South Carolina with her husband and three children.

Lay Your Weapon Down: Invitation to Cutters

Lay Your Weapon Down

Invitation to Cutters

True peace and relief comes through blood — not when we shed our own, but through the healing blood that Christ shed willingly on our behalf.

My Name Is ‘Beloved’: Finding Identity in Mental Illness

My Name Is ‘Beloved’

Finding Identity in Mental Illness

The identity of God’s people never rests in a diagnosis, even if the pain feels all-consuming. When the world says, “bipolar,” God says, “beloved.”

Wretched Extremes: The ‘Always’ and ‘Never’ of Suicide

Wretched Extremes

The ‘Always’ and ‘Never’ of Suicide

Suicidal thoughts often begin in the crosshairs of extremes, when Satan laces his lies with “always” or “never.” God’s promises are just as extreme, but true.

Walking Our Children Through Depression: Four Ways We Imitate God

Walking Our Children Through Depression

Four Ways We Imitate God

How should parents walk their children through depression? The same way God walks his own children through depression.

Death Will Come When Christ Calls

Death Will Come When Christ Calls

Death, for all the destruction it brings, can go only where Christ allows. Death is his minister, sent to bring his people home.

Mercy for Depressed Moms: How God Met Me in Crisis

Mercy for Depressed Moms

How God Met Me in Crisis

In the midst of a mother’s depression, Jesus does not call us to simply get over it or try harder. He invites us to come to him, rest in him, and take his yoke upon us.

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