About
Dr. Zack Eswine serves as Lead Pastor at Riverside Church and serves as Director of Homiletics for Covenant Theological Seminary in Saint Louis Missouri. His award winning writings about honest questions and ministry, human sorrows and hope, flow out of his local life following Jesus as a pastor, husband and father.
Publications
- Spurgeon’s Sorrows: Realistic Hope for those who Suffer from Depression (Christian Focus, 2015)
- The Imperfect Pastor (Crossway 2015)
- Recovering Eden: The Gospel According to Ecclesiastes (P&R, 2013)
- Preaching to a Post-Everything World: Crafting Biblical Sermons That Connect With Our Culture (Baker, 2008)
- Kindled Fire: How the Methods of C.H. Spurgeon Can Help Your Preaching (Mentor, 2006).
Messages
026 Zack & Jessica Eswine on ‘Spurgeon’s Sorrows’
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Craig Marshall’s talk with Zack & Jessica Eswine continues with a discussion of another one of Zack's books, Spurgeon’s Sorrows. This book looks to the life of Charles Spurgeon to glean biblical insight into depression. Understanding the relationship between depression and sin can be very confusing and divisive. How should we think about their relationship? What language does Scripture give us for these heavy feelings?
025 Zack & Jessica Eswine on ‘The Imperfect Pastor’
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Earlier this year at the Ministry Weekend, Craig Marshall sat down with Zack & Jessica Eswine to talk about their life and Zack’s book, The Imperfect Pastor. As opposed to a quick fix, Zack maintains the importance of recognizing our limitations and learning to slow down in the midst of difficult seasons.
Depression: Biblical Mentoring From Fellow Strugglers
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This session looks at Charles Spurgeon’s raw, honest descriptions of his depression and bodily pain. It also explores how consoling the sorrowful may mean looking to the Jesus of Gethsemane, where we see how He is with us and knows our pain.
Depression: How Do We Care For Those Who Struggle?
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We often jump to conclusions about other people’s sin. Strong-minded people are very apt to be hard on the weak and those depressed in spirit. Drawing from the Bible’s wisdom literature, this session urges us to resist simplistic thinking and trite answers, and learn how to enter into the pain of those who are hurting.
Depression: What Do We Do If We Have it?
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God often takes us through long trials rather than quickly bringing deliverance. This session looks at the Psalms, where we see biblical heroes like David at his lowest points and in deepest despair. We aren’t the first nor the last to feel this way and we can’t use Scripture superstitiously to wave away problems.
Depression: What Is It?
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To care well for those who are depressed we need a theology of sadness itself. The Bible reminds us of the wisdom of meditating on grief and how it is wise to be sad about sad things and foolish to be shallowly mirthful. This session helps us all to learn how to weep with those who weep.
The Pastor as Caregiver: Learning to Listen
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Drawing from the wisdom literature of the Bible, this session urges leaders to heed the call to be quick to listen and slow to speak. The fool thinks they know the answers before they know the questions. We can only truly begin to care for others after having first listened ourselves.
Finding Rest When There Isn’t Any part 2
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Leaders are not meant to be everywhere at once. Nor were they ever meant to fix it all. This session calls us acknowledge our own limitations and be attentive to how Christ enters into the midst of ongoing difficult circumstances.
Finding Rest When There Isn’t Any part 1
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In Ecclesiastes, we learn from Solomon about the errors that leaders are prone too. Too easily we forget we’re human and need rest just like everyone else. This session urges pastors to recover the virtue of rest and to be reminded of the Edenic rhythm that God intended for everyone.
