06 - How do you feel - making sense of our emotions - Part 6 - Fear and Anxiety

- Tim Smylie

1. What is fear?
2. What's good and bad about fear and anxiety?
3. Engaging our fears and anxieties
   1. Identify them
   2. How are you dealing with them?
   3. A wise strategy
      1. Go to your Father
      2. Take simple physical steps
      3. Face your fear
      4. Give
      5. A passage to live with (Luke 12:22-34)

05 - how do you feel? Making sense of our emotions - Part 5 - Anger

- Tim Smylie

1. What is anger? - "I'm against that"
2. What's good about God's anger? - it flows from love
3. What's the problem with my anger (and yours)? -"My kingdom come, my will be done"
4. Getting anger right
   1. Own it!
   2. Examine it
   3. Slow down
   4. Respond constructively, with:-
      1. Patience
      2. Forgiveness
      3. Charity
      4. And sometimes - constructive conflict

04 How do you feel? - Making sense of our emotions - Part 4

Engaging our emotions - part 2 - Tim Smylie

This is a long term project!

1. Plan to cultivate your emotional garden
2. Grow:
   1. Love for God, our neighbour, and what is good
   2. Hope in God, and our eternal destiny
   3. Hatred of evil
3. Allow:
   1. Grief
   2. Guilt
   3. Jealousy
4. Eliminate:
   1. Destructive anger
   2. Fear and worry about the future

5. Disciplines to get us there
   1. Wise up to the little things - sleep, diet, and exercise.
   2. Learn to look upwards - using prayer, Scripture, and song.
   3. Commit to look outwards

03 - How do you feel - making sense of our emotions - Part 3

Tim Smylie

1. Engaging our emotions - part 1
   1. Take the challenge seriously

   2. Listen to your emotions

   3. Evaluate your emotions
      1. What do they tell me about what I love?
      2. What do they tell me about what I believe?
         1. "Emotions reflect what we believe and reveal our assumptions about how the world works" (Matthew Elliot)
      3. What does the bible say?

   4. Don't be bullied by your emotions
      1. "I need this"
      2. "This is all or nothing
      3. "I need to act right now"

02 - How do you feel - making sense of our emotions - Part 2

Tim Smylie

Emotions are:

1. 1. Good
   2. Complicated 
   3. Powerful
   4. Not the only thing
   5. Mirrors of the heart

01 - How do you feel - Making sense of our emotions - Part 1

1. Emotions are good
   1. Our emotions are derived from God's emotions
   2. Jesus felt: Joy, Love, Compassion, Frustration, Anger, Distress
2. Emotions are complicated
   1. They're like a paint mixer that never shuts off
   2. They're connected to our bodies
   3. They're disordered by sin