How can I deal with my anger?

Sometimes anger is explosive and aggressive; sometimes it makes us shut down in silence. No matter how we experience it, we all get angry. But how can we know when anger is right or wrong? And what does the Bible actually say about anger and how we should handle it?

How Can I Deal with My Anger? looks at anger without treating the emotion itself as automatically sinful. Scripture allows for anger, but also warns how quickly it can become destructive when it grows from wounded pride, self-protection or our own sense of justice. The question this booklet keeps returning to is what our anger reveals about what we value, and whether it bears any resemblance to the anger of God.

God is described as slow to anger, and His anger is bound up with love: He opposes what destroys people, distorts justice and separates us from Him. Jesus shows the same concern in His response to religious hypocrisy and exploitation. That gives Christians something more searching than either exploding or suppressing what they feel. We can bring anger to God, allow Him to expose its motives and ask how He would have us respond.

This booklet moves into practical territory too: repentance where our anger has become self-centred, making amends when we have hurt someone, resisting the urge to react immediately and allowing prayer, Scripture and the Holy Spirit to reshape our response.

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