A Word from Bob
Over the past two decades of writing for RPM Ministries and the Truth & Love blog site, I’ve penned well over 100 free resources about our emotions. Over the past year, I’ve crafted nearly a dozen such resources.
Today I’m linking to these 11 Free Resources About Emotions.
There is so much confusion in Christian circles about the role and value of emotions in our lives. I pray that these posts will provide some biblical clarity and personal wisdom.
Enjoy!
10 Biblical Principles About Emotions: Drawn from the Emotional Life of Christ
This is my most read post in the past half-year. As the title and subtitle suggest, the post examines the emotional life and Christ and then makes application to our emotional life.
Ten Biblical Principles About Emotions: Drawn from the Emotional Life of Christ
Anxiety and Our Physical Bodies: God’s Care for Embodied-Souls
There’s a great deal of confusion about anxiety in the life of the Christian. I’ve taken this post from my booklet, Anxiety: Anatomy and Cure. The post especially examines the role of our body/brain in anxiety.
Anxiety and Our Physical Bodies: God’s Care for Embodied Souls
7 Biblical Examples Countering the False Gospel of Emotional Health and Wealth
This post was well-received by many…and received a little pushback by a few. Read it for yourselves and see what you think about:
7 Biblical Examples Countering the False Gospel of Emotional Health and Wealth
Fear Is Not Sin: By Ed Welch and CCEF
In this post, I summarize an extensive article by Ed Welch where he presents biblical evidence that fear is not sin. I also link to Ed’s entire article.
Fear Is Not Sin: By Ed Welch and CCEF
Emotions: God’s Idea
Do you know that your emotions are fearfully and wonderfully made? For a refreshing biblical “take” on our emotionality, read:
Rich Hope Requires Intense Lament
We often think about a couple of verses in Lamentations 3, especially when we sing, Great Is Thy Faithfulness. But did you know, that the vast majority of verses in Lamentations 3 are intense laments? Read all about it here:
Rich Hope Requires Intense Lament
10 Common Mistakes in Our Biblical Counseling, #7: We Devalue Emotions Rather Than Seeing Emotions as God’s Idea
This post is part of a series that I derived from my book, Consider Your Counsel: Addressing Ten Mistakes in Our Biblical Counseling. It focuses on how we devalue emotions, compared to how God values our emotions…
36 Scripture Passages on Safety and Refuge in God: Home, Safe and Sound
Don’t we all long to be “home, safe and sound”? I know I do. Don’t we all feel “out of the nest,” and “away from home,” in the middle of such an unsafe world? I wrote this post to calm my own soul with Scripture. I hope it will bring you peace, too…
36 Scripture Passages on Safety and Refuge in God: Home, Safe and Sound
Grief and Your Child: Sharing God’s Comfort in Loss
If we need peace, calm, and hope in the midst of our suffering, loss, and grief, then how much more do our children need the God of peace and the peace of God? I’ve taken this post from my book Grief and Your Child: Sharing God’s Comfort in Loss. In the post, I share four images or pictures to illustrate four practical ways we “can be there for” our children in their grief.
Grief and Your Child: Sharing God’s Comfort in Loss
Learning the Biblical ABCs of Emotions
This is a free 30-page PDF collating foundational biblical principles about our emotional lives. Download it here:
Learning the Biblical ABCs of Emotions
Empathy Is Biblical
Here’s another free PDF, this one 42 pages, on Empathy Is Biblical.
