Don't trust your feelings! . . . Sound familiar? Elliott's provocative, research-based study argues that emotions are among life's most logical and dependable ingredients---and that God created them to drive us toward our best. Learn to live with a passionate heart and discover why your true spiritual health may often be measured by how you feel. 288 pages, softcover from Tyndale.
Many Christians simply arent experiencing the abundant life. A focus on doing our duty and living by reason--when what we know trumps how we feel--can leave us feeling dead. We need to have our passion restored in order to live the life that Jesus came to give us. In Feel, Matthew Elliott takes a critical look at what our culture and many churches have taught about controlling and ignoring our emotions. He contends that some of the great thinkers of the modern era got it all wrong, and that the Bible teaches that God intends for us to live in and through our emotions. Emotions are good things that God created us to feel. Matthew helps us to understand our emotions and equips us to nurture healthy feelings and reject destructive ones. So refresh yourself, drink deeply, and learn to live with a new, passionate heart.
Finally, the definitive book on the proper, God-given place for emotions in our lives.
Andy Andrews, author of the New York Times best seller The Travelers Gift
Feel is an engaging book thats potentially liberating. God made emotions and Jesus expressed them; they need to be reclaimed and redeemed, not ignored or abandoned. Matthew Elliott does a service to the church through this thoughtful work.
Randy Alcorn, author of the best sellers Heaven and Deception
Finally, we can get out of the box and dance. Read Feel, and youll thank me for recommending it.
Steve Brown, president of Key Life Ministries
Many books today on the Christian life are baloney. Others just repackage what is widely known. This book is different. Based on solid research, it has truly fresh insights into our feelings.
Robert Yarbrough, PhD, professor, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School