Anxiety and Depression with Dr. Jeremy Pierre

Dr. Jeremy Pierre serves as an Associate Professor of Biblical Counseling at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, located in Louisville, KY. He is the author of several books including The Dynamic Heart in the Daily Life, The Pastor and Counseling, When Home Hurts: Responding Wisely to Domestic Abuse in Your Church, and God With Us. He has contributed to many other journals and books, serves as a pastor at his local church, and is on the board of directors for the Biblical Counseling Coalition. He is married to his lovely wife Sarah, and together they have five children.

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Show Notes

1. How would you define anxiety?

2. Is there a difference between feeling anxious for a season and dealing with ongoing feelings of anxiety (a lifelong struggle)?

3. What is the difference between anxiety and depression? Are anxiety and depression related to each other in any way?

4. Is it sinful to wrestle with anxiety and/or depression?

5. What does God’s Word have to say about fear, worry, and anxiety?

6. Why is our struggle with anxiety or depression not hopeless?

7. Is it possible to completely overcome anxiety and depression or will we continue to wrestle with these experiences on this side of eternity?

8. Several years ago, you published a book titled, The Dynamic Heart in the Daily Life: Connecting Christ to Human Experience. What do you mean by, “The Dynamic Heart?” What is dynamic about our hearts?

9. What does it mean to connect Christ to human experience? How does Christ/The Gospel change how we understand and experience anxiety?

10. We currently live in tension with where we are at present, and what we long for in the future. What does this mean for our experience of anxiety and how can we live with this specific tension well in our daily lives?

11. Let’s say a female listener was to sit down with you for counsel on how to wrestle with and overcome anxiety. How would you begin to counsel her? 

12. Are there any helpful questions you might ask/we could ask ourselves as we seek to identify a helpful/hopeful path forward?

13. What next steps would you recommend she take? 

14. How would you recommend finding a biblical counselor?

15. For women who may have a friend or spouse wrestling with anxiety, how would you recommend she support this individual well? 

Notable Quotations

Recommended Resources

The Counsel of Heaven on Earth by Ian F. Jones

Gentle and Lowly by Dane C. Ortlund

Scripture References

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