Reformed theologian John Piper says 30 years ago he went through an unexpected crisis that left him in a state of “inexplicable depression.”
Speaking about midlife crises on his desiringGod.org podcast Monday, Piper revealed that he was around 40 years old when he and his wife, Noël, were vacationing in California.
“Ben Patterson, who was at that time the pastor of a Presbyterian Church in Irvine, asked me to preach for him and offered me his house for some days of vacation while they were away. And so, we took him up on it. Two things happened which were remarkable and probably a wake-up call — a warning for me in midlife to hold fast to Jesus,” he recalled.
“One was that I felt inexplicably depressed while I was there. One morning I was sitting on the stairway to the second level of their house, crying. My wife found me and was startled because that’s not typical. She asked me, ‘What’s wrong?’ And I simply said, ‘I don’t have any idea.'”
Piper noted that after he preached at Patterson’s church, he was approached by Jim Conway, the author of Men in Midlife Crisis, who counseled the theologian on what he might be going…
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