The Emotional Life My fourth concern is our struggle with emotions in general. Anger suffers from our more general lack of a way to deal with emotions. Emotions. Can you trust them? Many Christians don’t think you can. This is the result of some unhelpful teaching on emotions that became pretty common in some circles. […]
To get at this concern, let’s have a hypothetical conversation. Scenario One: You say, “I’m angry with God.” I say, “Hmm. What are you doing about your anger with God?” Your answer: Silence. I rest my case. Angry at God and doing nothing about it. That is hazardous to your heart and souring to your […]
Now for my second concern. It’s pretty straight forward. I decided to go back and do a little survey of what the Bible says about anger. Maybe you will be helped by this in the way I was. First, the words anger and angry are not often used in the New Testament. In the Old […]
But Can You Handle It? In my sermon on September 30, I made brief comments on how anger with God doesn’t do you much good when you are going through hard times. This may have been the part of the series What Shall I Do When Life Gets Hard? that generated the most comments from people. […]
Quite a few people asked me for the five insights from the Sunday message. They are only five of the many more insights we need when times are hard, but they are a good start. Read all of them in light of Romans 8:28-39 and Romans 5:3-4. ONE: Expect the Expected. (See yesterday’s post for […]
What Shall I Do When Life Gets Hard? One core insight from the Sunday message is to have proper expectations. Expect the unexpected AND expect the EXPECTED. Don’t expect Hakuna Matata. A problem-free philosophy is going to have a rude and abrupt encounter with reality. Real life has problems, difficulties, struggles, challenges, and even crises […]