In 2001, The Voice of the Heart began a steady journey into the lives of those looking for more. Since its initial release, The Voice of the Heart has been handed one friend to another and has helped thousands of people begin to speak the truth of their story and to live more fully from the heart. Chip Dodd invites us to begin to know our hearts so that we better know ourselves and can live fully in relationship with others and, ultimately, with God. The journey begins with discovering the gift of The Eight Feelings(TM). We have eight feelings that allow us to live fully in a tragic place-hurt, lonely, sad, anger, fear, shame, guilt, and glad. By listening to these eight God-given tools, we can be who we are made to be, so we can do what we are made to do. Chip Dodd passionately and wisely invites us to the spiritual discipline of listening to our hearts and to the call of God that echoes in every emotion. -Dan Allender, Professor of Counseling Psychology at The Seattle School, Author of The Wounded Heart, To Be Told, and Leading With a Limp. The Bible tells us that the heart 'is the wellspring of life.' In this thoughtful book, Chip Dodd reveals] how our spiritual heart functions and how we can discover more of the life Christ offers. I'm confident that many will find his insights helpful and even life-changing. -Franklin Graham, President, Samaritan's Purse and Christian Evangelist.

The companion book study for The Voice of the Heart.

In 2001, The Voice of the Heart began a steady journey into the lives of those looking for more. Since its initial release, The Voice of the Heart has been handed one friend to another and has helped thousands of people begin to speak the truth of their story and to live more fully from the heart. Chip Dodd invites us to begin to know our hearts so that we better know ourselves and can live fully in relationship with others and, ultimately, with God. The journey begins with discovering the gift of The Eight Feelings(TM). We have eight feelings that allow us to live fully in a tragic place-hurt, lonely, sad, anger, fear, shame, guilt, and glad. By listening to these eight God-given tools, we can be who we are made to be, so we can do what we are made to do. Chip Dodd passionately and wisely invites us to the spiritual discipline of listening to our hearts and to the call of God that echoes in every emotion. -Dan Allender, Professor of Counseling Psychology at The Seattle School, Author of The Wounded Heart, To Be Told, and Leading With a Limp. The Bible tells us that the heart 'is the wellspring of life.' In this thoughtful book, Chip Dodd [reveals] how our spiritual heart functions and how we can discover more of the life Christ offers. I'm confident that many will find his insights helpful and even life-changing. -Franklin Graham, President, Samaritan's Purse and Christian Evangelist.

Without knowing and expressing our needs, relationship with God and others suffers. As a complement to The Voice of the Heart, Chip Dodd invites readers to explore the needs we are created to have so that we can live fully. In 2001, The Voice of the Heart began a steady journey into the lives of those looking for more. Since its initial release, The Voice of the Heart has been handed from one friend to another; it has helped thousands of people begin to speak the truth of their story and to live more fully from the heart.

You and I are designed as emotional and spiritual creatures who are created to live fully, even in a broken, tragic world. We live fully by being in relationships with ourselves, our heads and hearts connected, in relationship with others, and especially, in relationship with God. We have been given feelings as tools to use that can move us to remain connected to ourselves, others, and God. The Pslams are a great example of this truth.

How are You Feeling Today? is a small children's book that is part of a large mission -- to help children embrace core values and express behaviors consistent with those values in an ever-changing, challenging world. We want children to know, grow in, and trust the truth of the seminal verse, Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it (Prov. 4:23). As children's minds are being educated, so will they also learn the social and emotional skills that allow them fully to share their gifts in a world that needs them.

My prayer is that children will remain connected to how God created them and continue to be known by those they love and who love them -- especially the God who knitted them together with unending love.

A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from its roots a Branch will bear fruit. Isaiah 11:1

In this prophetic verse, we learn that Jesus, the Messiah, will be born through the line of Jesse, King David's father. There were many kings who ruled Israel after King David, but they did not remain faithful to the One True God. Their faithlessness led to the destruction of Israel. Their enemies conquered and destroyed the land that God had given His people, the Jews. Israel became a stump of what it once was. However, God had a plan. He would use this stump to bring forth a Branch that would bear fruit. This Branch would bring forth Jesus, our Savior, the Messiah!

This Jesse Tree Christmas Devotional contains 24 devotionals starting with the story of creation and ending with the birth of Jesus. These devotionals begin on December 1 and end on December 24. Each day readers will read the devotional story and place an ornament on their Jesse Tree that represents some part of the story. This ornament-covered Jesse Tree will be a visual reminder of the stories that have been read and the promise of the coming Messiah. Each day's devotional also includes ideas and suggestions for deepening and expanding the Bible story.

It is our prayer that by completing this devotional, readers will keep

The Boy and The Ogre is a story about the restoration of the Six Freedoms that we come into life with as God's gift to us. The Six Freedoms are to be developed, nurtured and grown so that we can live fully in relationship with ourselves, others, and God. When we are taught to give up the heartbeat of the freedoms, the result is codependency. In it's simplest form, codependency is the loss of self-awareness, self-trust, self-expression, and inherent sense of worth that allow us genuinely to depend on others and God for relational connection, which is the food of life. We lose the capacity to thrive as we are created by God to do. In codependency, survival takes the place of our inherent desire to thrive. Recovery ushers us into the lives we are created to have.

In Keeping Heart, Dr. Chip Dodd takes us to the benefits of needing well, desiring honestly, longing deeply, and facing unvanquished hope. The five characteristics of the heart are in us to grow us and bless us, but have so often been mistaken for negative experiences that one needs to control rather than utilize. We have been created to live fully in a tragic place. Knowing our hearts and utilizing its gifts help us see who we are created to be so we can do what we are created to do.

Through the use of story, experience, knowledge, and Scripture, we follow the author as he shows us how to walk the path toward a life of passion, intimacy, and integrity-leaving a legacy that passes life forward to those we loved and beyond. Using the Beatitudes, we discover the eight movements we all must make if we are to live in freedom, fidelity, fullness, and faithfulness. With each movement, Dodd explores one of life's great paradoxes: the only way we get to the treasure we are made to possess is by traveling through tragedy and surrendering to the God who can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves.

This is the companion study to The Needs of the Heart.

Without knowing and expressing our needs, relationship with God and others suffers. As a complement to The Voice of the Heart, Chip Dodd invites readers to explore the needs we are created to have so that we can live fully. In 2001, The Voice of the Heart began a steady journey into the lives of those looking for more. Since its initial release, The Voice of the Heart has been handed from one friend to another; it has helped thousands of people begin to speak the truth of their story and to live more fully from the heart.

A book ahead of its time.

An allegory that speaks truths we are trained not to see, and we wish we could hide from. It sends us into the future in which metaphor and science have collided into a new materialism. We have gotten everything we ever wanted and yet the cost to the heart of who we are is its price. The unique story takes us into the mystery of our own hearts and beckons us to listen to our own cry for liberty.

Between alcohol, illegal drugs, prescription drugs, pornography, gambling, and eating disorders, fully 25% of the population of the United States is addicted to something. Those addictions are taking a massive physical, emotional, spiritual, and financial toll on individuals, families, and communities. The problem can feel insurmountable. But there is a solution, at once ancient and supported by the latest in neuroscientific research.

With an honest assessment of the facts, yet always reaching out toward hopeful solutions, counselors Chip Dodd and Stephen James explain what addiction really is, how it works, and why it is so damaging to our hearts, souls, minds, and relationships. They then take us beyond mere coping techniques that allow us to function to the real solution--restoring our broken relationship with our Creator so that we can rediscover how to live fully the way we were created to live. Each chapter includes the personal story of a recovering addict, told from the addict's point of view. The authors also include a list of books, organizations, workshops, and treatment centers people can turn to for help along the road to lasting recovery.