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The God-Shaped Heart

by Timothy R. Jennings, MD

The key to our health and happiness is love--God's love for us and our love for others. It seems simple, but we are experts at complicating things.

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Instead of living lives characterized by love, we find ourselves trapped in cycles of shame, violence, and addiction that steal our joy and keep us from loving others--so much so that, by all indications, Christians are living no differently than anyone else when it comes to abuse rates, use of pornography, alcohol and drug addiction, and more.

 

Christian psychiatrist Dr. Timothy Jennings wants to release us from this prison. In The God-Shaped Heart, Dr. Jennings exposes a single idea, misunderstood and deeply rooted within Christianity, that has prevented millions of believers in God from experiencing the freedom and healing of His unfailing love.

 

Chapter Titles:

 

1. Heart Disease in Christianity: There Is Something Wrong
2. The Infection
3. Growing Past the Rules
4. Spiritual Failure to Thrive

5. Law, Love and Healing

6. The Evidence
7. Love and Worship
8. Love and Institution
9. Rituals, Metaphors and Symbols
10. The Little Theater
11. The Power of Love and Truth
12. Law of Love in the Real World
13. God's Action in the Old Testament: Love or Law
14. Love and Eternal Judgment

 

Come And Reason Ministries is dedicated to helping you learn to discern, to stimulate you to think, to help hone and refine your reasoning powers, and to increase your ability to know right from wrong and healthy from unhealthy.  We're not here to tell you what to think, but to show you how to more efficiently use your God-given reasoning power to better grow in grace and bring your personal walk with God closer.

 

We believe. . .

  • > The Bible, as the inspired word of God, is a reliable and faithful revelation of God and His plan to heal and restore mankind from sin.
  • > God is love (1John 4:8). His character of love is the foundation of His government and the law of love is the principle upon which all life in the universe is designed to operate. God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit exist in the plurality of perfect outward moving, other-centered giving, beneficence and love. The health and happiness of all creation is dependent upon harmony with God’s law of love.
  • > Sin at its core is selfishness the very opposite of God’s character of love.
  • > Sin originated with Satan and mankind believed Satan’s lies about God and rebelled against God and His law of love. Thus mankind became sinful/selfish and destined to die save God’s saving grace.
  • > Jesus Christ is the Son of God. Jesus, Himself being fully God, is the exact representation of the Father, the member of the Godhead through whom all things were made and equal in majesty, authority and divinity with the Father (John 14:9-11, Heb 1:1-3, Col 1:16).
  • > Jesus humbled Himself to be born of a virgin joining His divinity with our humanity in order to reach sinful man with God’s saving love and grace.
  • > He was tempted in every way just like we are yet lived a perfect sinless life and freely surrendered Himself to death triumphing over evil and sin (Heb 4:15).
  • > Christ rose from the dead and is in heaven directing all the agencies of heaven for our eternal salvation and the final defeat of evil forces.
  • > Every person saved is saved only through Jesus Christ and His victory for mankind.  
  • > The Holy Spirit is Christ’s representative on earth administering all the benefits achieved by Christ to those who trust in God.
  • > Christ will come again, literally, visibly, with His angels to bring His people to Himself, put a final end to sin and sinners and restore this universe back into the eternal harmony of love.
  • > In a literal, physical new heaven and new earth the home of the righteous.
  • > I in a literal, physical resurrection from the dead where those who died in a saving relationship with Christ along with the saved who are alive when He comes will exchange this sick, disease ridden body for a perfect, eternal body no longer subject to pain, suffering and death.
  • > That the time for Christ to come and redeem His saints is imminent.

 


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Timothy R. Jennings, M.D. has been in private practice since 1997 as a Christian psychiatrist and certified master psychopharmacologist. Dr.  Jennings is board certified in psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.  He is a specialist in Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, a drug-free treatment for depression.

 

He is a lecturer, international speaker, and author of the widely respected books The God Shaped Brain and Could It Be This Simple? A Biblical Model for Healing the Mind. Dr. Jennings’ dynamic, engaging presentations are filled with moving real life stories, practical Biblical wisdom, and powerful life-changing insights.