We love them. We hate them. But we certainly cannot ignore them.

Emotions can be wonderful things we love or horrible things we hate - depending on how we're feeling at the time. Sometimes we feel at their mercy and think that God would have been so much wiser to have made us without them.

But we can't get away from it: God made us to feel. Emotions thinks through the place of emotions, how we view them, handle them and glorify God with them. We see that the mature Christian life involves a fully-functioning emotional life and that emotions flow from the heart. We focus on how we can grow in good and godly emotions. We look at emotions and reading the Bible, emotions and singing praise to God, and the best way up when we are feeling down.

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The subject of emotion in Christianity is an emotive one in itself. Here Graham Beynon attempts to steer a way between the equally unhelpful poles of hating and distrusting all emotions and wallowing in them rudderless. It is, as he says, ‘a journey of exploration into the Bible, into the writings of church history, into modern thought, and into my own emotions.’ Many interesting testimonies from ordinary people are featured and the tension between modern thought-processes and those commanded by Christ is set out. What it comes down to in the end is that, as in all things, we should look to Christ as our pattern for appropriate expression of emotion, and accept that steadiness and emotion are not mutually exclusive. The book aims to be both a blueprint and an encouragement to persevere in that and succeeds in the second aim slightly better than it does in the first. I had a feeling that there was much more the author could have said but was constrained by the length of book people are willing to take the trouble to read. A more than adequate signpost in the right direction, though, via prayer, meditation on God’s word, and worship.

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