Job: Suffering, Lament & Depression: When Faith and Pain Collide

A Curriculum for Depression, Lament & Faithful Suffering

Explore depression, suffering, lament, and the collision of faith and pain through the story of Job. Drawing from The Perseverance Model™ — the DTI-BB-MHE™ framework — this digital, trauma-informed, biblically-based, mental health education course equips pastors, ministry leaders, and faith community members to recognize depression, reclaim lament as a biblical practice, and respond with compassion when someone is hurting.

What You’ll Explore:

• The psychology of cumulative loss
• How suffering lives in the body physically
• The impulse to isolate in pain
• The courage and theology of honest lament
• The failure of well-meaning comforters
• Identity crisis in the midst of suffering
• Enduring when there is no quick resolution
• Post-traumatic growth and the permanence of loss
• Depression versus normal sadness
• Spiritual bypassing and how to avoid it
• Suicidal ideation awareness and safe referral in faith settings
• Language that helps versus harms

Course Mechanics:

17 lessons • Full lesson audio narration • 17 Student Reflection Journal PDFs

Who This Is For

Adult individuals wanting to learn how the Word of God connects to mental health, pastors, ministry leaders, churches, faith-based organizations, community colleges, universities, seminaries, and Christian counselors seeking biblical mental health education for their staff, clients, and/or students.

Organizations offering mental health education through a biblical lens for employee development will find this curriculum equally suited to their needs.