Feelings and Faith: Cultivating Godly Emotions in the Christian Life
Overview
Emotions are a vital part of what it means to be a human being made in the image of God and redeemed in Jesus Christ. But often our emotions confuse and mislead us. So what is the proper place for emotions in a Christian’s walk of faith? In Feelings and Faith Brian Borgman draws from his extensive biblical knowledge and his pastoral experience to help readers understand both divine and human emotions. After laying a biblical foundation he moves on to practical application, focusing on how Christians can put to death ungodly emotional displays and also cultivate godly emotions.
Top Highlights
“They reduce their faith to an empty emotionalism. Being led by the Spirit is nothing more than how a person feels about something. Feelings determine duty. Doctrine is determined by ‘how I feel about it,’ thus, ‘I don’t believe that doctrine because it makes me feel yucky.’” (Page 25)
“for a specific purpose. They are necessary for us properly to know and relate to and glorify God” (Page 27)
“What am I not getting that I am elevating to idol-status and willing to go to war over?” (Page 109)
“Our emotions reflect what we truly believe and what is at the very core of our being” (Page 207)
“appeal to the sovereignty of the emotions is used to justify hatred, divo” (Page 24)
- Title: Feelings and Faith: Cultivating Godly Emotions in the Christian Life
- Author: Brian S. Borgman
- Publisher: Crossway
- Print Publication Date: 2009
- Logos Release Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Emotions › Religious aspects--Christianity
- ISBNs: 9781433511455, 9781433511462, 9781433503634, 9781433522413, 1433511452, 1433511460, 1433503638, 1433522411
- Resource ID: LLS:FLNGSFTHCHRSTLF
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:00:04Z