Emotions as vital indicators on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Dale Johnson and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors,

where we seek to provide biblical solutions for the problems that people face.

Today on the podcast, I am so grateful for a couple of gentlemen who I have loved building relationship with Dr. Sam Stevens

here in the office at ACBC. He's our director of Training Center certification. And then also today,

a special guest, Dr. Nick Ellen,

who serves as Professor of Biblical Counseling at the College of Biblical Studies in Houston.

He also helps us here at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, teaching as an adjunct as well.

And I look forward to their conversation on this very interesting and often maybe even controversial topic on the emotions.

We all have them.

We all wrestle with them.

And so listen in as Dr. Stevens and Dr. Ellen discuss these vital parts of our humanity.

All right. Well, Nick, it is so great to have you on the Truth in Love podcast, Brother. It's been a long time since we've been able to catch up. So I'm glad to have you with us today.

Good to see you, brother. Yeah, and a really important topic.

This is one that we get requests about all the time from our certified counselors, because I think

it's something that we see in the counseling room all the time. It's something that's part of

our just normal existence, our life, emotions, and how do we think about emotions? How do we help people

think about emotions? And interestingly enough, I find that it can also be kind of a controversial

topic a little bit, depending on perspectives and approaches. That's so true. So I think a great

way to kind of get us to get the ball rolling on covering a big topic

like this. We first of let's define our terms, right? We learn this in the PhD world, right?

It's define our terms. What are we talking about? So how would you define emotions? What are emotions?

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