The Cry of the Soul

How Our Emotions Reveal Our Deepest Questions About God

By: Dr. Dan B. Allender, Dr. Tremper Longman III, Joni Tada - foreword

Narrated by: Tom Parks

An excerpt from the foreword by Joni Eareckson Tada: "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). 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 way to Understand in Emotions in a Righteous Way

This book was super helpful in discover emotions from a biblical perspective. It helped me to have a renewed focus on God and his will for my life!

Listen. Listen again.

Really enjoyed this. I will take another listen soon. This delves into how emotions and scripture intertwine. Helpful! Priceless.

Challenging and insightful.

Why am I such a coward? Why can't I stop being angry? Why can't I just let things go? Being able to see my unrighteous anger and misplaced fear as the deep-rooted heart problems of sin they really are has been incredibly eye-opening. The book points out that we often try to suppress and "wave off" our feelings when we know they are wrong, but God searches the heart. He already knows. Confessing my honest feelings to God like the psalmist did is such a horrifying thought, but surely He already knows and is faithful to forgive. I couldn't stop listening to this book and will listen to it again.

Outstanding.

I have been privileged to read a few of Dr. Allender’s books and will always be profoundly grateful for his ministry. I listened to this as an accompaniment to my current study through the Psalms (among others, Longman’s excellent updated Tyndale/IVP commentary on Psalms: outstanding for its faithful brevity). The Cry of the Soul is exactly what the title says, but no doubt because God has provided us such a rich deposit in the Psalms of the brutal and commensurately celebratory depth of post-lapsarian/pre-resurrection life. Allender and Longman do a beautiful job navigating God’s Word. Highly recommended.

Depressing, beautiful, relevant

This book leads you through the darker emotions of life and delves into how those God-given emotions can reflect Him. Righteous anger versus sinful anger. Depression and despair and the way God hungers for our devotion. How He is wounded by our sin and refusal of Him. This was a hard book to read because it stirred so much inside. It's a serious book, and I would highly recommend it to those wishing to get past surface Christianity and plumb the rich depths of salvation and communion.