Answering Your Questions on Emotions

CCEF Podcast: Where Life & Scripture Meet

In this last episode of our miniseries on emotions, Alasdair Groves answers 11 questions submitted by our listeners. We hope these answers are edifying to you! You can read a transcript of this episode here. Mentioned in this episode: We’re excited to be doing a giveaway of some CCEF-branded items! To enter, visit ccef.org/podcast-giveaway. Winners will be chosen and notified via email on July 5. Are you looking for an answer to a particular question? See timestamps below to jump to that part of the episode.

  1. How does a Christian deal with a tendency to struggle with joy and happiness even when life is relatively good? [3:50]
  2. Is it a good thing when we can’t control our emotions? [11:56]
  3. Is the emotion of frustration a sin? [18:08]
  4. What about people who don’t know what they feel? [23:50]
  5. What about when a woman’s monthly period or menopause, where emotions “happen” to us and are not “our fault”? [28:00]
  6. How do I manage or overcome strong romantic emotions that are misleading? [35:22]
  7. What’s your encouragement for someone who says he’s a thinker, not a feeler? [39:48]
  8. What do you do with emotions that you should not act out on, but are still important to process? [42:02]
  9. How do you have empathy but also encourage resilience? [45:36]
  10. How do we handle anger, jealousy, negative emotions, and other things that may lead to bitterness? [50:55]
  11. Can you speak to rumination and sadness over relationships that are over? [54:12]
For further study on emotions, we want to recommend to you Untangling Emotions, a book by Alasdair Groves and Winston Smith, where they seek to biblically frame emotions and consider how to wisely engage with them.

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