The Cry of the Soul
How Our Emotions Reveal Our Deepest Questions About God
The Navigators · Print & ebook · December 2, 2015
An excerpt from the foreword by Joni Eareckson Tada: “With the book you are holding, you have stumbled upon the best of guides.
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- Who it’s for
- A reflective guide to what your feelings may be asking you about God.
- Genres
- Christian Counseling & Recovery, Managing Emotions, Theology
- Published
- The Navigators, December 2, 2015
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An excerpt from the foreword by Joni Eareckson Tada: “With the book you are holding, you have stumbled upon the best of guides. I should know. I first read The Cry of the Soul decades ago when I was still sorting through a lot of hurt and frustration connected with my quadriplegia (yes, I read it on that music stand holding a mouth stick).
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The Cry of the Soul showed me what to do with my anger and hurt—not stuff it under the carpet of my conscience, or minimize it, but actually do something good with it.” All emotion—whether positive or negative—can give us a glimpse of the true nature of God. We want to control our negative emotions and dark desires. God wants us to recognize them as the cry of our soul to be made right with Him. Beginning with the Psalms, Cry of the Soul explores what Scripture says about our darker emotions and points us to ways of honoring God as we faithfully embrace the full range of our emotional life.
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A reflective guide to what your feelings may be asking you about God.
Come here for
- emotion as spiritual signal
- Christian framing for grief and healing
Expect
- Bible-rooted guidance
- serious, intimate tone
Where it sits
| Managing Emotions | 37% |
|---|---|
| Christian Counseling & Recovery | 34% |
| Theology | 28% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Christian Personal Growth
- Authors
- Dan Allender, Tremper Longman, Joni Eareckson Tada
- Publisher
- The Navigators
- Published
- December 2, 2015
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Christian Personal Growth