Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and best-selling author Dr. Paul David Tripp

connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

Joy, sadness, anger, fear, disgust.

No, Paul isn't interviewing the animators of a popular cartoon movie about emotions,

but he is discussing emotions with biblical counselor Alistair Groves in this month's episode

of the Connecting Podcast.

Emotions are complex, and the Bible teaches that they are an indispensable part of what makes us human,

so get ready to explore, untangle, and engage with how God designed emotions for our good.

Here's Paul with Alistair Groves.

Well, one of the fun and enjoyable things that Llewell and I did the last few weeks is our granddaughters from California, who we

normally spend the winter with, were in town.

Lily is just about 11, and Juliet is just about 7, and they are amazing young women,

vibrant, creative.

We have the most amazing conversations with them

and we laugh together and it's just our delight to be with them.

And one of the things we did, why they were here,

is we went, decided to go see a movie because it was

4,000 degrees outside and we went and saw inside out too and it's a wonderful visual

representation of the complicated and mixed world of emotions.

And we were able to have some really interesting conversations with our granddaughters

afterward and after we left them,

Llewell and I were still talking about our feelings

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