The Cry of the Soul

How Our Emotions Reveal Our Deepest Questions About God

By: Dr. Dan B. Allender, Dr. Tremper Longman III, Joni Tada - foreword

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins

Publisher's summary

An excerpt from the foreword by Joni Eareckson Tada: "You have stumbled upon the best of guides. I should know. I first read The Cry of the Soul decades ago when I was still sorting through a lot of hurt and frustration connected with my quadriplegia (yes, I read it on that music stand holding a mouth stick). The Cry of the Soul showed me what to do with my anger and hurt - not stuff it under the carpet of my conscience, or minimize it, but actually do something good with it."

All emotion - whether positive or negative - can give us a glimpse of the true nature of God. We want to control our negative emotions and dark desires. God wants us to recognize them as the cry of our soul to be made right with Him. Beginning with the Psalms, Cry of the Soul explores what Scripture says about our darker emotions and points us to ways of honoring God as we faithfully embrace the full range of our emotional life.

©1994 Wounded Heart Ministries (P)2019 Tantor

Insightful

A very intriguing view of human emotions and how they both reflect the nature of God and draw us to God.

Listen. Listen again.

Really enjoyed this. I will take another listen soon. This delves into how emotions and scripture intertwine. Helpful! Priceless.

Challenging and insightful.

Why am I such a coward? Why can't I stop being angry? Why can't I just let things go? Being able to see my unrighteous anger and misplaced fear as the deep-rooted heart problems of sin they really are has been incredibly eye-opening. The book points out that we often try to suppress and "wave off" our feelings when we know they are wrong, but God searches the heart. He already knows. Confessing my honest feelings to God like the psalmist did is such a horrifying thought, but surely He already knows and is faithful to forgive. I couldn't stop listening to this book and will listen to it again.

Outstanding.

I have been privileged to read a few of Dr. Allender’s books and will always be profoundly grateful for his ministry. I listened to this as an accompaniment to my current study through the Psalms (among others, Longman’s excellent updated Tyndale/IVP commentary on Psalms: outstanding for its faithful brevity). The Cry of the Soul is exactly what the title says, but no doubt because God has provided us such a rich deposit in the Psalms of the brutal and commensurately celebratory depth of post-lapsarian/pre-resurrection life. Allender and Longman do a beautiful job navigating God’s Word. Highly recommended.

excellent

This is an excellent book describing the role of the psalms in our lives.

An inspiring and gracious work.

This book has given me a new appreciation for both emotions that we normally consider harmful and ones that we acknowledge as good.

Down to earth

Great reality check and heart check.
Interesting perspective and open writing style.
Worth the read

Nice

Though I have a ton of respect for the authors, the story is fairly basic. It is nice and encouraging. I personally just would’ve wanted something a little deeper.

Horrible view of God

Format: show negative emotion X (such as contempt, jealousy, rage, shame) then show horrible expressions of X are between humans. Then show how in the Bible, God feels and does X (for example, flying into murderous rages from jealously) and then that the father felt and expressed this towards Jesus, as he felt contempt for his son, who he shamed and then brutally killed in a furious rage. They point to the times in the OT when god is depicted as a violent drunk, a lion that rips people to shreds, a man who sexually assaults women and smears poop on them, who bashes the brains out of babies, who mocks and shows contempt for people, who in his jealous anger strips his wife naked and hands her to a violent mob to have their way her, and who causes all evil and suffering in his “love”. They insist we should fear God in the sense of terror, for he is so terrifying, in that his love is the type of love that would torture and kill his innocent son. They say this fear is can be so overwhelming that it cast out all other fears. As god is far more terrifying and evil than any human being, we will no longer need to fear people, as human evil is like a candle to the atomic bomb if Gods rage and cruelty, which they call love. Seriously, it is bad, so bad.