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Pastor Mike Allen
Jun 23, 20213 min read
Day 22: Meditations in Anger, Patience, and Peace
Anger's Victim. Let's be clear, we are not a victim of anger when anger is our own sin. We are not controlled by people, circumstances,...
Pastor Mike Allen
Jun 23, 20213 min read
Day 21: Meditations in Anger, Patience, and Peace
Seek Forgiveness. The destruction that anger brings with it will require us to seek forgiveness from those we have devastated with our...
Pastor Mike Allen
Jun 23, 20213 min read
Day 20: Meditations in Anger, Patience, and Peace
What's Your Plan? Are you a planner or do you tend to "fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants?" I am not a great planner and the reality is that...
Pastor Mike Allen
Jun 23, 20212 min read
Day 19: Meditations in Anger, Patience, and Peace
God's Jealousy. Our tendency is to think of the sinfulness of jealousy and that is right when jealousy pertains to us and our personal...
Pastor Mike Allen
Jun 23, 20213 min read
Day 18: Meditations in Anger, Patience, and Peace
Desires! The Holy Spirit gets to the heart of the matter of anger and conflict in these few verses, yet at the same time He makes...
Pastor Mike Allen
Jun 23, 20213 min read
Day 17: Meditations in Anger, Patience, and Peace
Thank you. It seems impossible to believe that this simple "proper manners" element that we were likely taught as a child has the ability...
Pastor Mike Allen
Jun 23, 20212 min read
Day 16: Meditations in Anger, Patience, and Peace
Completely Humble. Jesus lived the life that we were intended to live, but cannot live because of our sinfulness. He lived in a way that...
Pastor Mike Allen
Jun 23, 20212 min read
Day 15: Meditations in Anger, Patience, and Peace
Jesus and Anger. Jesus is the most comprehensive picture that God gives of Himself, and Jesus did show anger. He was angry with religious...
Pastor Mike Allen
Jun 23, 20212 min read
Day 14: Meditations in Anger, Patience, and Peace
Forgiven! God is a God who loves to forgive and who has forgiven sin through the cross of His righteous and precious Son. Our...
Pastor Mike Allen
Jun 23, 20212 min read
Day 13: Meditations in Anger, Patience, and Peace
Confession. David's confession about his sin with Bathsheba is found in Psalm 51. Psalm 32 also records his response as he thanks God for...
Pastor Mike Allen
Jun 16, 20212 min read
Day 12: Meditations on Anger, Patience, and Peace
Anger is Against God. My anger feels like it is justified and it feels like it is directed toward those who deserve it. At times, it may...
Pastor Mike Allen
Jun 16, 20212 min read
Day 11: Meditations on Anger, Patience, and Peace
Feelings. We tend to get our feelings out of balance: we feel too much and our feelings drive our actions or we feel too little and we...
Pastor Mike Allen
Jun 16, 20212 min read
Day 10: Meditations on Anger, Patience, and Peace
Blindness. In my early 30's I started developing a problem reading. There were days when I could not focus on words. It seemed like they...
Pastor Mike Allen
Jun 16, 20212 min read
Day 9: Meditations on Anger, Patience, and Peace
Keep at it! Anger is impatient and it is often when things are not happening when we want them to happen or how we want them to happen...
Pastor Mike Allen
Jun 16, 20212 min read
Day 8: Meditations on Anger, Patience, and Peace
Anger and our Desires. We often believe the delusion that others make us angry. This simply is impossible. No one has the ability to make...
Pastor Mike Allen
Jun 16, 20212 min read
Day 7: Meditations on Anger, Patience, and Peace
RUN toward Wisdom! We are seeking to run from anger, but we need to run towards wisdom; anger's opposite way of thinking and acting....
Pastor Mike Allen
Jun 16, 20212 min read
Day 6: Meditations on Anger, Patience, and Peace
The Many Faces of Anger. Now it gets personal! I would not have said I am an angry person and it is only by God's grace and through the...
Pastor Mike Allen
Jun 16, 20212 min read
Day 5: Meditations on Anger, Patience, and Peace
Murderer. James 4 indicates that wars, fighting, and killing come from others getting in the way of what we want. Anger is a typical...
Pastor Mike Allen
Jun 16, 20212 min read
Day 4: Mediations on Anger, Patience, and Peace
Judging Ourselves. Scripture does not teach us not to judge (discern, choose between what is right and wrong), but Scripture does condemn...
Pastor Mike Allen
May 21, 20211 min read
Day 1: Meditations on Anger, Patience, and Peace
Anger. I recently read that a mind that is not under the leading of the Spirit is a mind that tends toward anger or anxiety. We likely...
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