Feelings and Faith
Cultivating Godly Emotions in the Christian Life

The beginning of the book is very foundational. It gives a flyover of emotions and their source. By the middle of the book, he begins to provide more biblical evidence that emotions ultimately come from God and that Christians can repent of sinful emotions while cultivating Godly ones. The final few......more

I think that one of the challenges for a biblical counselor is ministering to the person who has been heavily psychologized and tends to live by their emotions as if emotions were centers of truth. More than once over the course of many years of ministering to people I've said, "I do not care what y......more

While this book had a few helpful points, I can’t give it more than 2 stars because I disagree with a lot of the author’s premise. On p.50-51 he discounts any kind of free will and seems to suggest we are slaves to sin (even after salvation). On p.62 he says God commands how we feel. And while we do......more

Assigned read. If you need an intro to the biblical perspective on emotions this would be a good place to start.......more

Solid content. I wish parts 1, 2, and 4 were condensed to just a few chapters. Part 3 on dealing with anger, bitterness, fear, worry, and depression was really good.......more