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Day 22: Meditations in Anger, Patience, and Peace

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,...

Day 21: Meditations in Anger, Patience, and Peace

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...

Day 20: Meditations in Anger, Patience, and Peace

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...

Day 19: Meditations in Anger, Patience, and Peace

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...

Day 18: Meditations in Anger, Patience, and Peace

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...

Day 17: Meditations in Anger, Patience, and Peace

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...

Day 16: Meditations in Anger, Patience, and Peace

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...

Day 15: Meditations in Anger, Patience, and Peace

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...

Day 14: Meditations in Anger, Patience, and Peace

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...

Day 13: Meditations in Anger, Patience, and Peace

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...

Day 12: Meditations on Anger, Patience, and Peace

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...

Day 11: Meditations on Anger, Patience, and Peace

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...

Day 10: Meditations on Anger, Patience, and Peace

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...

Day 9: Meditations on Anger, Patience, and Peace

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...

Day 8: Meditations on Anger, Patience, and Peace

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...

Day 7: Meditations on Anger, Patience, and Peace

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....

Day 6: Meditations on Anger, Patience, and Peace

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...

Day 5: Meditations on Anger, Patience, and Peace

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...

Day 4: Mediations on Anger, Patience, and Peace

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...

Day 1: Meditations on Anger, Patience, and Peace

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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