The Voice of the Heart: A Call to Full Living with CD (Audio) [Hardcover]

Chip Dodd (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 2001

Profoundly insightful, The Voice of the Heart offers a deeper understanding of how to live an abundant life. Chip Dodd teaches us how to begin to know our hearts so that we better know ourselves and are better equipped to live in relationship with others and, ultimately, with God. Included with the book is a audio compact disc. The CD is a companion presentation by Chip Dodd to supplement the material covered in the book. It provides additional teaching on the Spiritual Root System, particularly how feelings play a vital role in our emotional and spiritual maturity.

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Dodd passionately invites us to the spiritual discipline of listening to our hearts and to the call of God. -- Dan B. Allender, author of The Wounded Heart, Cry of the Soul, and The Healing Path

Dodd reveals how our spiritual heart functions and how we can discover more of the life that Christ offers. -- Franklin Graham

From the Publisher

How much longer can I do this? Is God good? Is there ever more? What’s the point? Dr. Chip Dodd refers to these as questions of the heart in his new book, "The Voice of the Heart: A Call to Full Living" (Sage Hill Resources, a division of Providence Publishing Corporation). Dodd encourages people to examine these questions instead of numbing their hearts with neglect.

A full life is beyond our grasp without knowing the eight feelings that are stamped upon our hearts - hurt, loneliness, sadness, anger, fear, shame, guilt, and gladness. For many of us, life is only about survival. Sadly, we live lives of self-protection. We close doors to anything that might lead to hurt or disappointment, only to also shut out our hearts to relationship and all that is joyous and full.

Profoundly insightful, The Voice of the Heart offers us a deeper understanding of how to live an abundant life. Chip Dodd teaches us how to begin to know our hearts so that we better know ourselves and are better equipped to live in relationship with others and, ultimately, with God. "This book is an invitation to rediscovery," Dodd says. "It helps you to find what you lost and reawaken what is asleep. It will hopefully be a tool to help you knock down the walls around your heart." Dodd believes that the awakening of the heart leads to an abundant life.

Dodd has spent the past several years developing and teaching the "Spiritual Root System," a metaphor explaining the life of the heart. The system’s five roots are feelings, needs, desires, longings, and hope. "The Voice of the Heart" explains all five roots, but the book’s emphasis is feelings. "You and I have only eight feelings," Dodd says. "We cannot live in fullness without knowing these feelings. The paradox is that if we choose fullness with our feelings, we also choose to experience pain." The eight feelings Dodd has identified are hurt, loneliness, sadness, anger, fear, shame, guilt, and gladness.

People often ask Dodd why only one of the feelings–gladness–is positive. "Each feeling is positive because of where it can lead," he responds. "It’s my behavior that is good or bad; feelings themselves are good — each feeling is a gift from God." Dodd believes that listening to the feelings of the heart make openness and vulnerability possible, both with other people and with God. Living fully is the goal of life, he says, not being happy all of the time.

"Ultimately, living fully means more than happiness, comfort, or thrills," Dodd says. "You have the capacity to experience true joy, yet you are equally capable of grieving deeply while holding on to hope. Full life means you can expect great things in the midst of great loss. That’s the hope of Jesus."

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 151 pages
• Publisher: Sage Hill Resources (August 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1577362195
• ISBN-13: 978-1577362197
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #519,956 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome truths, August 11, 2001

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Garry Walker "Emmanuel Verette" (Fort Wayne Indiana) - See all my reviews
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This is an extremely important and timely book. Chip Dodd is a man with a passion for the truth and obviously a great joy in sharing it. He speaks to my heart in ways that bring a peace worth sharing. He speaks to my brain and challenges my intellect. My emotional quotient is put to the test! Full living with an authentic true self is truly a journey. This book and its messages have helped me to begin this journey and provides me guidance along the way... My heart really is made for relationship. That is an undeniable truth. This book and its spiritual roots have blessed me with some knowledge and tools to nuture healthy relationships..finally!!

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Voice of the Heart: A Call to Full Living, August 6, 2001

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Stephen (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews

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This book is amazing. I have read it twice now and each paragraph has somthing that I need to hear. The best thing about this is the CD in the back. I have listend to it everyday in the car. Powerful. Encouraging. It's like Dodd looked write into my heart when he wrote this book. You have got to read this.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT BOOK, January 10, 2004

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K. Russell "amazonlover75" (Fayetteville, AR United States) - See all my reviews
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I just wanted to quickly respond to a previous review of this book. If there is such a thing truth, then that 'truth' is unalterable. The reviewer writes, ' The Voice of the Heart is not for Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, Taoists, Mystics or any other group that may hold to a different view of how the Universe is "put together" and how it works. Therefore, it cannot be the vessel containing the "unalterable truth" that the author proclaims.

It seems to me that this particular viewer has a skewed view of what truth is, since if it doesn't agree with every other religious point of view, according to the reviewer, then it is thus does not contain `unalterable truths'. Does it follow that any viewpoint that doesn't agree with all other viewpoints is thus not truth? This book is a fantastic introduction into the nature of the heart, and I highly recommend it for anyone curious and seeking.