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Pastor Mike Allen
Jun 27, 20212 min read
Day 40: Meditations in Anger, Patience, and Peace
Be Quick to Listen. James 1:19 is often referenced when addressing anger. The idea typically involves being quick to listen before...
Pastor Mike Allen
Jun 27, 20213 min read
Day 39: Meditations in Anger, Patience, and Peace
Justified Anger. We convince ourselves that we have the "right" to be angry and our position of "rightness" demands that we must be...
Pastor Mike Allen
Jun 27, 20212 min read
Day 38: Meditations in Anger, Patience, and Peace
Blame. One of the underlying thoughts in our anger is a sense of superiority over others. This is because anger is rooted in a perceived...
Pastor Mike Allen
Jun 27, 20212 min read
Day 37: Meditations in Anger, Patience, and Peace
The Gift of Being Mistreated. If we believe that God is sovereign then we must conclude that His will includes our own mistreatment at...
Pastor Mike Allen
Jun 27, 20212 min read
Day 36: Meditations in Anger, Patience, and Peace
Our Shield and Protector. For those of us who deal with the sin of anger, anger is often our shield of defense. When we are threatened,...
Pastor Mike Allen
Jun 27, 20212 min read
Day 35: Meditations in Anger, Patience, and Peace
Ways to bless your enemy. Rather than being angry with those who oppose us, we are called to seek their blessing. How can we do this? We...
Pastor Mike Allen
Jun 27, 20212 min read
Day 34: Meditations in Anger, Patience, and Peace
Bless your enemy. If we are to put off anger, then we are to put on something in place of it. What is it? Paul teaches in Romans 12:14...
Pastor Mike Allen
Jun 27, 20212 min read
Day 33: Meditations in Anger, Patience, and Peace
God's Anger. God can be provoked to anger. God hates evil (Proverbs 8:13). God hates dishonest scales (Proverbs 20:10). God hates haughty...
Pastor Mike Allen
Jun 27, 20212 min read
Day 32: Meditations in Anger, Patience, and Peace
Learned Anger. There is nothing quite so shocking as hearing our own kids repeat the exact words with the same intonation that we use as...
Pastor Mike Allen
Jun 23, 20212 min read
Day 31: Meditations in Anger, Patience, and Peace
Full vent or Straight-up Embarrassment. Anger does not make us behave in particular ways, but rather in our anger we choose to behave in...
Pastor Mike Allen
Jun 23, 20212 min read
Day 30: Meditations in Anger, Patience, and Peace
Jealousy. Do we struggle with others being blessed? Can we identify with the statement, "Every time a friend succeeds, something inside...
Pastor Mike Allen
Jun 23, 20212 min read
Day 29: Meditations in Anger, Patience, and Peace
If the Lord wills. James 4:13-16 points us to an appropriate approach to every day of life..."If the Lord wills, we will live and do this...
Pastor Mike Allen
Jun 23, 20212 min read
Day 28: Meditations in Anger, Patience, and Peace
Grumbling! Who doesn't like a good grumble or an opportunity to complain about something or anything? We must recognize these responses...
Pastor Mike Allen
Jun 23, 20212 min read
Day 27: Meditations in Anger, Patience, and Peace
The Cross and Anger. In 1 Corinthians 2:2, Paul puts Christ at the very center of all things and identifies Him as the One who, through...
Pastor Mike Allen
Jun 23, 20212 min read
Day 26: Meditations in Anger, Patience, and Peace
Anger forgets. Anger feels justified, after all, this is why we are angry. In our minds our standard has not been met. Our expectations...
Pastor Mike Allen
Jun 23, 20212 min read
Day 25: Meditations in Anger, Patience, and Peace
Strength and Power. Anger gives a false sense of power because it seems to get people to respond to what we want. The parent in anger is...
Pastor Mike Allen
Jun 23, 20212 min read
Day 24: Meditations in Anger, Patience, and Peace
Satan loves anger. Ephesians 4:26-27 warns against giving Satan an opportunity in our hearts in the area of anger. This is sinful anger...
Pastor Mike Allen
Jun 23, 20212 min read
Day 23: Meditations in Anger, Patience, and Peace
Talk with God. We speak openly with God so we can be known and He speaks openly with us so we can know Him. Anger is often rooted in...
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...
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