Murder is one of the ways we communicate the sin of anger in our home; it helps to level the playing field and aggressively engage a heart going wayward. We don’t want to give ourselves over to nonredemptive hyperbole, but each family member must see the seriousness and wretchedness of anger. We must take all sin seriously because any evil—big and small—puts Christ on the cross.
When I am impatient, I have found it helpful to think of myself as a murderer. When I see myself as a murderer, there is no place to run, hide, or justify my words. There is only one option: repent to those who experienced my specific version of anger. Do you want wiggle room when it comes to your sin? Do you want to skirt around your anger no matter how light it may appear? Isn’t it better to steer away from ambiguous and subjective gradations? https://lifeovercoffee.com/damaging-effects-of-our-anger-when-we-dont-own-it/
The shocking and inspiring story of Sophie Ottaway.
Watch the full interview here: https://lifeovercoffee.com/podcast/ep-490-sophie-ottaway-engineered-at-birth-to-be-a-girl/
Focus on the Cause, not the Effect, so you can remove the cause and not be affected by the effect.
A local church’s worship value is not primarily about the music but the lifestyle because you never ask, “Are you worshiping?” The reason is that we worship all the time. God made us for worship—wired us for worship, you could say.
Worship is part of what it means to be image-bearers. Who could do otherwise? The better question is, “What or whom do we worship?” https://lifeovercoffee.com/three-characteristics-of-a-fantastic-local-church/
Whenever a person chooses sinful anger, he is, in effect, giving the other person control over him. It’s counterintuitive. In his anger, he is like a marionette, a puppet on a string.
Anger toward someone is the total submission of their thoughts, attitudes, emotions, and behaviors to the other person. It is not self-control, as governed by the Spirit of God, but someone out of control or under the control of another spirit. https://lifeovercoffee.com/podcast/ep-110-help-for-the-angry-person/
