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Emotions
Articles for Outreach & Missions
The Danger of Bypassing Your Emotions
Spiritual bypassing simply means that you use spiritual concepts, platitudes, or activities to “bypass” or avoid dealing with your true feelings, especially the hard ones like anger, grief, fear, loneliness, envy, and shame. Here are the dangers.
Articles for Worship & Creative
You CAN Rule Your Heart – It’s a Part of Worship
As a worship leader, one of the most beneficial things we can do for our congregation is to demonstrate how to rule your heart, and bring forth praise--not because we do (or don't) feel like it, but because God is worthy.
Articles for Outreach & Missions
11 Signs of an Emotionally Mature Christian
Why are so many Christians judgmental and defensive? Part of the answer lies in a failure to be a mature Christian.
Articles for Worship & Creative
What Is the Role of Emotional Worship?
Worship leaders leverage their skills of music to surface emotions in order to knit them together with God’s truth.
Articles for Worship & Creative
Glenn Packiam: Is Emotional Worship Wrong?
The question is not whether or not worship ought to be emotional. Of course it does; and worship—as a way of meeting God—has always involved emotion. The question is whether emotional worship is appropriate or not.
Pastors
Balancing Intellect and Emotion for a Fully Orbed Faith
There is a place for both emotion and intellect to work together. For one to thrive, it doesn’t mean you must be void of the other. In our spiritual life, we need both.
Children's Ministry How To's
5 Big Feelings Our Kids Are Feeling Right Now
I have heard five statements from my kids and friends’ kids that I feel express five big feelings (significant emotions) that many children are dealing with.
Articles for Outreach & Missions
God Loves You With His Emotions
Does God feel as we feel? Of course! While his emotions are not fickle like ours, he created us in his image and set his affection on us and expresses himself as having feelings and emotions.