30 Days of Hope for Dealing with Depression

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Poinsett, Brenda, author.

Title: 30 days of hope for dealing with depression / Brenda Poinsett.

Other titles: Thirty days of hope for dealing with depression Description: First [edition]. | Birmingham : New Hope Publishers, 2017.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017006350 | ISBN 9781625915207 (permabind) Subjects: LCSH: Depression, Mental—Religious aspects—Christianity. | Depressed persons—Religious life.

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