TIL 556: What's Wrong With Living by Emotions? (feat. Jim Fain)
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
1. What is the function God has given for emotions?
2. How does the Bible command an approach to life?
3. Should this approach change when we face suffering in our life?
4. What are the dangers of living by our emotions?
5. How do we help the counselee to live by faith?
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| 0:00.0 | What's Wrong with Living by Emotions on this edition of Truth and Love? |
| 0:11.1 | I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, |
| 0:16.1 | where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people face. |
| 0:20.6 | This week on the podcast, I'm delighted to have with me, Dr. Jim Fane. |
| 0:24.5 | Jim and his wife Shelley have been married since 1992 and are blessed with four daughters, |
| 0:29.0 | Alyssa, Madeline, Meredith, and Abigail, three sons-in-law and one grandson. |
| 0:33.8 | Jim has served. |
| 0:34.6 | The Lord is a co-pastor of Cornerstone Reform Church in Franklin, Indiana, |
| 0:38.9 | and as executive director of Rod and Staff Ministries, which is an ACBC certified training center since 2010. |
| 0:46.1 | Jim also served in the United States Air Force for 28 years, retiring in 2018, and he really enjoys |
| 0:52.3 | supervision, which is overseeing some of our certified members, |
| 0:56.5 | 225 plus students, where he rejoices with the discoveries of biblical sufficiency for the |
| 1:02.4 | counselor in training. And I have a personal word of thanks to say, I'm so grateful for your work |
| 1:07.3 | with Marshall Adkins, who is now a professor with me at Midwestern Baptist |
| 1:11.0 | Theological Seminary. You were one of his supervisors, Jim, and we have lots of fun discussions |
| 1:15.3 | about some of the things that you've taught him. So welcome the podcast today, looking forward to it. |
| 1:18.8 | Amen. Thank you for having me. Now, we're going to talk about this issue of emotions, and what a |
| 1:23.6 | wild concept in the ways that we think about emotions today. When we think about emotions, |
| 1:28.7 | people think about these things as really our identity, the driving force behind who we are. |
| 1:34.9 | We're not trying to deny the concept that we have and experience as human beings' emotions, |
| 1:40.6 | right? But we've misinterpreted and misunderstood those in the modern day. So let's talk a |
| 1:45.9 | little bit about what function the Lord has designed, because that's always the best place to start, |
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