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Anger often comes out sideways

By Dave Henning / September 23, 2023

“Instead of looking in the mirror and asking himself some hard questions, [Cain] directed his anger at Abel. . . .  Anger with ourselves over our failures and shortcomings comes out sideways and gets redirected to the people around us.”- Kyle Idleman “The LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering, but on Cain […]

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Defending our ego and image

By Dave Henning / April 10, 2023

“When we get angry, we should ask: ‘What am I defending?’  If we do that, we will see how often we are defending our ego, pride, agendas, and image.  God’s anger is always righteous because He is perfect love.  So his anger is always in defense of the good, true, and beautiful, and his anger […]

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Builds a wall around your heart – anger

By Dave Henning / April 21, 2022

“Your anger toward the people who have hurt you builds a wall around your heart that doesn’t just keep those people at a safe distance but keeps everyone away as well.”- Kyle Idleman “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.  In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what […]

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Our losses matter – practice acts of kindness

By Dave Henning / August 24, 2020

“Oh, what kindness we begin to practice when we act like our losses matter. . . .  Loss, disappointment, grief, and injustice provoke anger. . . .  Your rage is not a sign that something’s wrong with you; there’s something wrong with the world. . . .  We’re often embarrassed by our anger, but it’s […]

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Internalize the anger – what happens

By Dave Henning / June 18, 2020

“What I did was internalize the anger I felt against my friend.  And with it the shame of being fooled by him.  But you can’t bury emotions like that.  They’ll still come out.  But they will come out looking like something else.”- Phil Waldrep In Chapter 5 (“Pain”) of Beyond Betrayal, Phil Waldrep affirms his […]

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Always destructive in nature – sin

By Dave Henning / October 17, 2019

“Sin is always destructive in nature.  That’s one indication that a habit, thought, or behavior is sinful — it’s sin if it’s destructive to yourself or others, and it’s sin if it damages relationships. . . .  Sin destroys .  Sin leaves a wake of pain.”- Bob Merritt “We all stumble in many ways.  Anyone […]

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Painful circumstances – imprecatory laments

By Dave Henning / September 27, 2019

“Anger is a natural and common response to painful circumstances. . . .  true lamenting calls for our lousiest, rawest emotions — even the ugly ones.  But anger is usually a secondary emotion, often masking feelings of loneliness, insecurity, shame, abandonment, or sadness.”- Aubrey Sampson “Pay them back for what they deserve, LORD, for what […]

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The anger that pollutes our hearts

By Dave Henning / February 13, 2019

” . . . when a person discovers he has heart disease, his overriding concern isn’t how he got it, where it came from, or whose fault it is that he has it.  His number one concern is, ‘How do I fix it?’  We should be driven by a similar concern when it comes to […]

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We just aren’t getting our way

By Dave Henning / February 8, 2019

“Of the four enemies vying for control of our hearts, this one’s the most obvious and perhaps the most dangerous: Anger. . . .  But behind all the huffing and puffing, ranting and raving, brewing and stewing is the most basic of human experiences: We just aren’t getting our way.”- Andy Stanley “Get rid of […]

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Carrying a heart full of anger

By Dave Henning / January 30, 2019

“And to be honest, if you discover that you’re carrying a heart full of anger, that won’t come as a surprise to the people who love you the most.  They’ve known for a long time.  And changer are, they’ve been praying that one day you would wake up and see it for yourself.”- Andy Stanley […]

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When anger remains, it intensifies and spreads

By Dave Henning / January 29, 2019

“It’s easy to believe that the only remedy for our anger is payback. . . .  The irony is that, in most cases, the perceived debt can never be paid. . . . but actually it’s a tragedy . . . because people spend much of their lives waiting for debts to be paid that […]

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Envy never rests – morphs into anger

By Dave Henning / December 12, 2018

“It’s important to understand that envy never rests.  Envy never lives in the heart as just envy.  Envy quickly morphs into anger, the anger looks for an object, and finally envy shuts the heart off from trust in God.”- Paul David Tripp “When my soul was embittered, I was pricked in heart, I was brutish […]

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