Episodes
Sunday Mar 08, 2020
Sunday Mar 08, 2020
- Tim Smylie
- What is fear?
- What's good and bad about fear and anxiety?
- Engaging our fears and anxieties
- Identify them
- How are you dealing with them?
- A wise strategy
- Go to your Father
- Take simple physical steps
- Face your fear
- Give
- A passage to live with (Luke 12:22-34)
Sunday Feb 09, 2020
05 - how do you feel? Making sense of our emotions - Part 5 - Anger
Sunday Feb 09, 2020
Sunday Feb 09, 2020
- Tim Smylie
- What is anger? - "I'm against that"
- What's good about God's anger? - it flows from love
- What's the problem with my anger (and yours)? -"My kingdom come, my will be done"
- Getting anger right
- Own it!
- Examine it
- Slow down
- Respond constructively, with:-
- Patience
- Forgiveness
- Charity
- And sometimes - constructive conflict
Sunday Dec 08, 2019
04 How do you feel? - Making sense of our emotions - Part 4
Sunday Dec 08, 2019
Sunday Dec 08, 2019
Engaging our emotions - part 2 - Tim Smylie
This is a long term project!
- Plan to cultivate your emotional garden
- Grow:
- Love for God, our neighbour, and what is good
- Hope in God, and our eternal destiny
- Hatred of evil
- Allow:
- Grief
- Guilt
- Jealousy
- Eliminate:
- Destructive anger
- Fear and worry about the future
- Disciplines to get us there
- Wise up to the little things - sleep, diet, and exercise.
- Learn to look upwards - using prayer, Scripture, and song.
- Commit to look outwards
Sunday Nov 10, 2019
03 - How do you feel - making sense of our emotions - Part 3
Sunday Nov 10, 2019
Sunday Nov 10, 2019
Tim Smylie
- Engaging our emotions - part 1
- Take the challenge seriously
- Listen to your emotions
- Evaluate your emotions
- What do they tell me about what I love?
- What do they tell me about what I believe?
- "Emotions reflect what we believe and reveal our assumptions about how the world works" (Matthew Elliot)
- What does the bible say?
- Don't be bullied by your emotions
- "I need this"
- "This is all or nothing
- "I need to act right now"
- Take the challenge seriously
Sunday Oct 13, 2019
02 - How do you feel - making sense of our emotions - Part 2
Sunday Oct 13, 2019
Sunday Oct 13, 2019
Tim Smylie
Emotions are:
- Good
- Complicated
- Powerful
- Not the only thing
- Mirrors of the heart
Sunday Sep 08, 2019
01 - How do you feel - Making sense of our emotions - Part 1
Sunday Sep 08, 2019
Sunday Sep 08, 2019
- Emotions are good
- Our emotions are derived from God's emotions
- Jesus felt: Joy, Love, Compassion, Frustration, Anger, Distress
- Emotions are complicated
- They're like a paint mixer that never shuts off
- They're connected to our bodies
- They're disordered by sin
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