Can You Be Discerning without Always Being Angry?

How can you be actively discerning without being angry all the time? How can you be nice and charitable without lacking biblical discernment?

These are questions that seem to keep bouncing around in my mind. I want answers. I want biblically informed, thoughtful, and applicable answers.

Let me back up and give you some background for this. A few years back I was having lunch with a friend. He mentioned that he thought if churches were a breed of dog then we would be a Pit-Bulls. As we talked more and I tried to understand I discovered that he perceived that we were the ‘shoot first ask questions later’ type of people. As a leader in this context this means that I was being perceived not only as a leader of Pit-Bulls, but one myself. And since I was visiting with him and his statements were at me, I take this to mean he was mainly talking about me. In other words, I’ll wear this label. Keep Reading>>>

Are You Angry with God?

In our secular society, it is considered therapeutic and acceptable for people to be angry at God. It is said that getting angry at God is part of the healing process when we feel hurt, and that forgiving God is a milestone on the road to recovery.

Any informed Christian understands the blasphemy of such thinking and statements, and yet, even believers struggle with the temptation to be angry at God.

Why do we struggle with anger at God?

People get angry at God because they feel that He owes them something that He did not deliver to them, or, that He allowed some bad thing to happen to them that they did not deserve.

In other words, they think they didn’t receive what they deserved, or, they received what they didn’t deserve.

Both of these lines of thinking presuppose that God has some obligation to them that He did not fulfill. Thus, the anger. Continue Reading>>>