{"id":126520,"date":"2025-09-25T17:03:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T22:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=126520"},"modified":"2025-09-25T17:09:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T22:09:32","slug":"when-a-biblical-counselor-battles-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=126520","title":{"rendered":"When a Biblical Counselor Battles Depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>One Man\u2019s Journey: Bob Somerville<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>In 2014, Bob Somerville penned one of the most unique books in the history of the modern biblical counseling movement: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/If-Im-Christian-Why-Depressed\/dp\/1498407773\/\"><em>If I\u2019m a Christian, Why Am I Depressed? Finding Meaning and Hope in the Dark Valley: One Man\u2019s Journey<\/em><\/a>. As the subtitle indicates, this book is Bob\u2019s memoir, Bob\u2019s journey through the dark valley of depression.<\/p>\n<p>Bob is a friend. I so respect his vulnerability in writing this book. Let me introduce me to your friend. His bio makes his book all the more intriguing.<\/p>\n<p>Bob received his M.Div. degree from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in 1970. He served as a Senior Pastor in the EV Free Church from 1970 to 2005.<\/p>\n<p>In 1977, Dr. Somerville received his Doctor of Ministry degree in Biblical Counseling from Westminster Theological Seminary. Since 1986, Bob served as a member of the Board of the National Association of Nouthetic Counselors\u2019\u2014NANC (now the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors\u2014ACBC). In 1989, Dr. Somerville became a NANC\/ACBC Fellow\u2014a supervisor of other biblical counselors. Beginning in 2005, Dr. Somerville served as Professor of Biblical Counseling at The Master\u2019s Seminary.<\/p>\n<p>Bob is a biblical counselor <em>par excellence<\/em>. Bob is the epitome of a biblical<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What can we learn about depression, the embodied-soul, and physiological interventions from a biblical counselor who suffered with depression?<br \/>\nThe post When a Biblical Counselor Battles Depression appeared first on RPM Ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":126523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[114],"class_list":["post-126520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rpm-ministries-bob-kellemen","tag-depression","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2025-Somerville-Depression-e1758838009521-1.jpg?fit=350%2C525&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126520"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126524,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126520\/revisions\/126524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/126523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}