I am grateful for the emotional education God has given me through walking with him.
In recent years, I have come to understand that we need to develop our emotional awareness if we are to build an attractive relationship with God. The religious assumption that the spiritual will somehow overcome the emotional is incorrect. The spiritual and the emotional work together to make our relationship with God satisfying, complete, and inspiring.
If we fail to understand how they work together we will become spiritually dry, boring, uninspired, and dead. In this environment, God will become unattractive to us. When God’s influence and presence are absent from our lives, our emotions will become our god.
The following is a collection of supplemental devotionals, videos, Spotify playlists, and podcast episodes, to expand on Chapter 4 of the book, He’s Not Who You Think He Is: Dropping Your Assumptions and Discovering God for Yourself, and to help you develop a fresh perspective on God.
King Ahab and The Emotions of Change
What King Ahab can teach us about navigating the emotional disruptions that are necessary parts of the process of change.
How the Inspirational People We Admire Handle Their Emotions
In this study, we picked four emotions we deal with regularly to learn from inspirational people we admire in the Bible how they handled these emotions through their walk with God.
What it Means to Have a Transformational Quiet Time with God
Join Russ and friends as they discuss the first sections of the study “How to Have a Quiet Time,” and the ability for our times with God to be powerful and transformational, as long as we keep our focus and attention on who God is.
Changing How We See God
Regardless of where our guilt is rooted, we will end up having a skewed view of God until we are honest and deal with our hearts with him.