Introduction<br >motions in the<br >Christian Life<br > You re about to read a book about human emotion<br >and its impact on our daily lives. That topic always re-<br >minds me of a story my mother told about the high school<br >she attended in 1930， It was located in a small Oklahoma<br >town which had produced a series of terrible football<br >teams. They usually lost the important games and were<br >invariably clobbered by their arch rivals from a nearby<br >community. Understandably， the students and their par-<br >ents began to get depressed and dispirited by the drub-<br >bing their troops were given every Friday night. It must<br >have been awful.<br > Finally， a wealthy oil producer decided to take matters<br >in his own hands. He asked to speak to the team in the<br >locker room after yet another devastating defeat. What<br >followed was one of the most dramatic football speeches of<br >all t~mes. This businessman proceeded to offer a brand<br >new Ford to every boy on the team and to each coach if<br >