__How God's love will transform every area of your life__   
The key to our health and happiness is love--God's love for us and our love for others. It seems simple, but we are experts at complicating things. Instead of living lives characterized by love, we find ourselves trapped in cycles of shame, violence, and addiction that steal our joy and keep us from loving others--so much so that, by all indications, Christians are living no differently than anyone else when it comes to abuse rates, use of pornography, alcohol and drug addiction, and more.  
  
Christian psychiatrist Dr. Timothy Jennings wants to release us from this prison. In The God-Shaped Heart, Dr. Jennings exposes a single idea, misunderstood and deeply rooted within Christianity, that has prevented millions of believers in God from experiencing the freedom and healing of His unfailing love.  
  
  
"Dr. Jennings's careful scholarship and moving stories will inspire you to live, heal, and succeed via a transformed heart, loving both God and others well. Highly recommended."--__John Townsend, PhD__, New York Times bestselling author of Boundaries, founder of the Townsend Institute for Leadership and Counseling  
  
"Incisive and kind, practical and generous. . . . For those who long for God's world of goodness and beauty, this is a book where that longing is waiting to be discovered."--__Curt Thompson, MD__, author of Anatomy of the Soul and The Soul of Shame  
  
"The God-Shaped Heart is a book for anyone whose heart has been damaged by a Christianity focused on fear and punishment. . . . Tim Jennings does not simply want to change your mind, he also wants to change your heart."--__Derek Flood__, author of Disarming Scripture   
  
__Timothy R. Jennings, MD__, has been in private practice as a Christian psychiatrist and certified master psychopharmacologist since 1997 and has spent more than two decades researching the interface between biblical principles and modern brain science. He is a highly sought-after lecturer and international speaker and the author of The God-Shaped Brain. Dr. Jennings is in private practice in Tennessee.

__Timothy R. Jennings, MD__ has been in private practice as a Christian psychiatrist and certified master psychopharmacologist since 1997. Board certified in psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, he is a specialist in transcranial magnetic stimulation, a drug-free treatment for depression. Dr. Jennings is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, Fellow of the Southern Psychiatric Association, and past president of both the Tennessee and Southern Psychiatric Associations. He has spent more than two decades researching the interface between biblical principles and modern brain science and is a highly sought after lecturer and international speaker, and the author of The God-Shaped Brain. He is in private practice in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

The key to spiritual and emotional health is to grasp the truth of God's transforming love for us and then let that reality influence our own hearts and relationships. It seems simple, but we are experts at complicating simple things. Instead of living lives characterized by love we find ourselves trapped in cycles of shame, violence, and addiction that steal our joy and keep us from loving others--so much so that, by all indications, Christians are living no differently than anyone else when it comes to abuse rates, use of pornography, alcohol and drug addiction, and more.  
  
Christian psychiatrist Dr. Timothy Jennings wants to release us from this prison. With powerful illustrations from case studies and from Scripture, Jennings shows believers who are stuck in addiction, violence, fear, and broken relationships how to experience true freedom through God's transforming love to experience greater health, fulfillment, and well-being.

Christian psychiatrist Dr. Tim Jennings corrects our fundamental misunderstandings about God's love, enabling us to escape negative cycles, and experience love that changes people, heals broken hearts, and transforms lives.

Jennings, Timothy R. MD

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Title Page

Copyright Page

Endorsements

Dedication

Acknowledgments

1. Heart Disease in Christianity

2. The Infection

3. Growing Past the Rules

4. Spiritual Failure to Thrive

5. Law, Love, and Healing

6. The Evidence

7. Love and Worship

8. Love and the Institution

9. Rituals, Metaphors, and Symbols

10. The Little Theater

11. The Power of Love and Truth

12. Law or Love in the Real World

13. God’s Action in the Old Testament

14. Love and Eternal Judgment

Appendix A: Summary of God’s Design Laws

Appendix B: Another Resource—The Remedy

Notes

About the Author

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