Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation
1803 East Willow Grove Avenue
Glenside, PA 19038
Alasdair Groves
Journal of Biblical Counseling 32:1
How do you develop a healthy, godly emotional life? How do you help someone else grow in this way? Many counseling approaches are suspicious of emotions and teach stoic self-control. Other counseling approaches glorify emotions and teach free expression of feelings. Christian faith has been used to justify both extremes, but Groves pursues the full range of godly emotions. His article speaks of six spiritual practices that gradually remake our emotional life in God’s image. Some of these may surprise you!