EAST Podcast: Managing Emotions – Father Heart of God

 

Managing Emotions – Discovering the Father Heart of God

This podcast episode on Managing Emotions featured Dr David Eckman, Founder of Becoming What God Intended Ministries and Dr Jarred Jung, EAST Resident Faculty in Systematic Theology. Eckman’s focus in this episode is on the theology of emotions and how to manage them in light of whom God as the Heavenly Father is to us.

Please visit the podcast video on YouTube to directly view the chapters listed below.

• Introduction – Jarred Jung
• What role does emotions play in us as humans and image bearers of God?
• How the Fall twisted the passionate delight in God to being enslaved to desires of darkness
• Redemptive understanding of emotions affecting the horizontal and vertical relationships
• Turning away from self-hatred to self-love through the love of God the Father
• Expressing emotions in cultures where such outward expressions are not the norm
• Holistic relational evangelism in drawing people to a relationship with the Heavenly Father
• Knowing the Father’s love and his passionate desire for us and its impact on discipleship
• Personal example of emotions being the temperature of the soul
• What’s going on inside of you?
• Conclusion

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Related resources by Dr Eckman include a publication, Theology of Emotions: How to Minister to Our Emotions, co-authored by David Eckman, PhD and Kimberly Grassi, PhD, and a Head to Heart website.