I do emphasize that we cannot just get out of the Bible a definition of the soul.

Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.

The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it's who you become. That's what you will take into eternity.

Paul followed Jesus by living as He lived. And how did he do that? Through activities and ways of living that would train his whole personality to depend upon the risen Christ as Christ trained Himself to depend upon the Father.

Clinical depression is an extreme form of a 'bad mood.'

If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.

We must understand that God does not "love" us without liking us - through gritted teeth - as "Christian" love is sometimes thought to do. Rather, out of the eternal freshness of his perpetually self-renewed being, the heavenly Father cherishes the earth and each human being upon it. The fondness, the endearment, the unstintingly affectionate regard of God toward all his creatures is the natural outflow of what he is to the core - which we vainly try to capture with our tired but indispensable old word "love".