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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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