Language of the Heart

How the Bible and the Restoration Teach Us to Feel Like God

By: Taylor Halverson

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

What if the Bible was teaching you not only what to think, but how to feel?

Modern readers often approach scripture as a collection of doctrines, commandments, and stories. Ancient Israelites experienced something more. They encountered a God who rejoiced, grieved, loved, showed compassion, and invited His covenant people to learn those same divine emotions.

In Language of the Heart, Taylor Halverson, Ph.D., explores the emotional world of the Bible and the Restoration. Drawing on Hebrew language, ancient Near Eastern culture, biblical theology, and Latter-day Saint scripture, this book reveals how emotions function as a sacred language through which God communicates with His children.

Journey through the Bible's rich emotional vocabulary and discover how ancient Israelites understood:

• Anger, compassion, joy, fear, grief, hope, trust, and love
• The biblical meaning of the heart as the center of thought, feeling, and will
• How emotion shaped covenant relationships with God
• Why the Holy Ghost speaks to both mind and heart
• The connection between biblical emotions and Restoration scripture
• How disciples can learn to feel as God feels

Each chapter examines a key biblical emotion through language study, cultural context, representative scriptures, theological reflection, and practical Latter-day Saint application.

Whether you are a scripture student, teacher, leader, or lifelong learner, Language of the Heart offers a fresh way to read the Bible and a deeper understanding of how God forms disciples through the education of the heart.

Discover how compassion becomes covenant loyalty, how joy becomes worship, how hope becomes trust, and how the language of emotion reveals the heart of God.