I have now been a Christian for 14 years, since the year I left high school and completed my Higher School Certificate (HSC). Since then I’ve been schooled in the Bible and devoted myself to understanding it, but until about 6-9 months ago I never really understood the power of prayer. How long it has [...]
Archive for the ‘Feelings/Affect’ Category
Quiet Time Toolkit
Posted in Devotions, Encouragement, Father Heart of God, Feelings/Affect, Meditation on God, Prayer, Reflections, Revelations, Spurgeon on 21 April, 2012 (Saturday) | Leave a Comment »
Can we love or forgive ourselves?
Posted in Father Heart of God, Feelings/Affect, Grief, Healing and Restoration on 11 April, 2012 (Wednesday) | Leave a Comment »
Today I came across a discussion on the Facebook page of an American pastor whom I respect and it centred around this issue of whether or not Christian people should love and forgive themselves. I have had to think about it and do it in my own circumstances, and I thought it worth discussing here [...]
Scripture and Emotions
Posted in Bible college, Feelings/Affect, Healing and Restoration on 6 March, 2012 (Tuesday) | Leave a Comment »
Not long ago a professor of mine at Bible college emailed me an academic paper on the issue of emotions and the role they play in Scripture. I found it a very interesting read and thought I would post it here for others to be challenged and encouraged by.
Emotions, God, and the Whole Thing
Posted in Father Heart of God, Feelings/Affect, Healing and Restoration on 6 December, 2011 (Tuesday) | 1 Comment »
In October of 2010, I purchased a book named “When People Are Big and God is Small: Overcoming Peer Pressure, Codependency, and the Fear of Man”, by Edward T. Welch (1997, P&R Publishing, New Jersey). For me, the fear of others has been a big feature in my journey of life and it’s often obscured my [...]
Emotions conference bereft of deeper stuff
Posted in Church, Feelings/Affect on 2 October, 2011 (Sunday) | Leave a Comment »
A fortnight ago, there was a conference at Moore College on the issue of emotions. However, as one writer has noted in a commentary on the day, there was much more that could have been said on the issue. I agree with everything that she said, particularly the conclusion: Simply trying to think differently about … mal-adaptive [...]
Moore Conference on Feelings – Talks
Posted in Feelings/Affect, Healing and Restoration on 26 September, 2011 (Monday) | Leave a Comment »
Here are the talks which were given two weeks ago at Moore Theological College on the issue of feelings in the Christian life. All had strengths, but the ones I liked the most were the ones by Bezzant, Condie, and Smith: K. Condie – Puritans R. Bezzant – Sad to Mad to Glad (Sad to Mad [...]
Greater sorrows?
Posted in Feelings/Affect, Grief, Where I'm 'At' on 10 March, 2011 (Thursday) | Leave a Comment »
This week is more than a bitter-sweet one for me: it’s agonising, as I grieve over my mother, who died ten years to the day yesterday. My mum’s death devastated me more than anything else that has happened in my life: she meaned more to me than anyone else and in my family I felt [...]
