Somebody told you your feelings are worthless, and that idea has quietly become the default Christian view of emotions in a lot of churches and counseling offices. Maybe not in those exact words, but a pastor, a parent, or a Christian counselor made the point clearly enough: what you feel doesn't matter, it has nothing to do with the truth, and the mature move is to shut it off and push through. That advice is wrong, and it isn't even biblical. A distorted Christian view of e

The integration of psychology and Christianity usually gets described backward. Christians in the counseling field talk about it as though psychology and theology started out as two separate things that someone finally had the sense to combine, like peanut butter and chocolate, two good ingredients never meant to touch. That's the wrong picture. Genesis gives us a different one, and it changes how Christian counseling and Christian psychology ought to be practiced. If we star