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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...
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...
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