Tempering our Tempers

Tempering our Tempers – “Here are some diagnostic questions to help us discern the true nature of our anger.”

What Is Anger?

What Is Anger? – “Sinful human anger does not seek God, it cares more about being right than it does about love, and it forgets the mercy that we have been shown.”

Five Truths You Must Consider When You Are Angry

Five Truths You Must Consider When You Are Angry – It might be better to consider them before you are angry.

Wise Anger

Wise Anger – “The Bible teaches us to be careful around anger. It’s often been said that ‘anger’ is one letter away from ‘danger.’”

Be Angry and Do Not Sin

Be Angry and Do Not Sin – “The problem is that we are happy to exploit what seems to be a legal loophole. Anger, in its very nature, is self-justifying. My anger is righteous; your anger is not.”

 

Put Your Anger to Bed

Put Your Anger to Bed – Here is some good advice for young couples (and older couples) who are learning to engage with each other in healthy ways.

Slow to Anger: The Beauty of God’s Perfect Patience

Slow to Anger: The Beauty of God’s Perfect Patience – “If we were God in heaven, we would have grown impatient with people like us long ago. Our anger rises quickly in the face of personal offense. Our frustration boils over. Our judgments readily fire.”

Put Your Anger to Bed: Five Lessons for Young Couples

Put Your Anger to Bed: Five Lessons for Young Couples – “While many (rightly) turn to Ephesians 5 for a vision for marriage, the verses immediately before that chapter also hold valuable weapons in the fight to love each other well.”

 

Overcoming Sinful Anger

Overcoming Sinful Anger – “The heart of man is exceeding prone to undue and sinful anger, being naturally full of pride and selfishness; and we live in a world that is full of occasions that tend to stir up this corruption that is within us.”

Twitter Anger and the Righteousness of God

Twitter Anger and the Righteousness of God – “Maybe waking up every morning to see what everyone else on Twitter is upset about and then joining the throng of angry voices is counterproductive to our hunger for righteousness.”

Resentment Rots the Soul: How to Handle Anger So It Doesn’t Diminish Your Self

Resentment Rots the Soul: How to Handle Anger So It Doesn’t Diminish Your Self – “If we wish to keep our souls vibrant and our bodies healthy, we must find a way to deal with the temptation toward resentment.”

Social Media’s Anger Problem

Social Media’s Anger Problem – “Someone says something online that we find offensive, and we retaliate with a harsh word, a quick jab, or a joke at their expense. What we have done at that moment is allow them to steal our blessing of a quiet and gentle spirit to pay them back for their worthless words.”

 

Live Not by Outrage

Live Not by Outrage – “Too few Christians are thinking critically about the consequences of technology: how constant, never-ending access to information, untethered from accountability and community, might be training our spirits in a way that is antithetical to the discipline of taking every thought captive to the mind of Christ.”

Battling Anger, Frustration, and Impatience

Battling Anger, Frustration, and Impatience – “Lately I’ve wondered if there’s a way to head that flare-up off at the pass.”

The Ordinary War with Irritability

The Ordinary War with Irritability – “Because of Jesus, believers can have godly attitudes even when our patience is tried, and we don’t have to make self-justifying excuses when we don’t. We can confess our failure as sin, knowing Jesus forgives.”

“…and A Happy New Year”?

“…and A Happy New Year”? – “This stretch of the calendar in America has been driven, if not defined, by anger. So. Much. Anger. Deep, divisive, destructive anger has filled our land, our politics, and to an inexcusable extent, our churches. And when viewed through the lens of Scripture, it seems that so very little of it could be rightly seen as righteous indignation.”

Do Not Trust Your Anger

Do Not Trust Your Anger – “Our world, including our Christian circles, gives us opportunities galore for anger. It’s not as though provocations lie on only one side of the theological, political, or cultural divides.”

Anger, Panic, And The Psalms

Anger, Panic, And The Psalms – “The world is a scary mess right now. There’s an overstock currently on reasons to feel panic and anger, and most of them are out of our control. If we let them, these feelings have the power to eat us from the inside out. But it doesn’t have to be that way.”

Why Has Quarantine Made Me So Angry?

Why Has Quarantine Made Me So Angry? – “What Scripture says about the roots of anger exposes what is ugly, but also what is beautiful.”

Discourse with Enemies

Discourse with Enemies – Jesus Himself exemplified what it means to “bless those who curse you and pray for those who abuse you.”