How can you care for a friend who is suffering from depression? Here are three lessons from someone who has been on both sides of the darkness.

Depression makes us feel helpless, at the mercy of our own minds. But this is not the case. There is always a way to fight for faith in the dark.

Has God taken you on a path you never would have willfully chosen? Take heart. God hasn’t deserted you. He hasn’t forgotten you. He hasn’t made a mistake.

Everyone loves to hear an old-fashioned, rip-roaring, “glory!” conversion testimony. You know the kind I’m talking about. The dude who was a member of the Crips, a meth dealer, and a mob hit man before he found Jesus. Or the…

Creativity. You’ve either got it, or you don’t, right? You’re right-brained or left-brained, into art or into computer science, a painter or a mathematician. Creative folks do creative things, like paint, write, and walk barefoot through the woods. Non-creative folks…