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How many times today were you frustrated? While you might not think about it often, if you look closely at any day most everyone can find anger in their actions and attitudes. Anger is so common—yet it also hurts us and others. Can anyone truly find peace? Yes, but you need a plan.
How many times today have you been irritated? Frustrated? While you might not think about it often, if you look closely at any day most everyone can find anger in their actions and attitudes. Something spills or goes missing, we get stuck in traffic or someone cuts us off on the road, or we feel like the people we live and work with are only making our lives more difficult. And while no one wants to get angry, what happens when our irritations and frustrations rise yet again?
Anger is so common—yet it also hurts. It not only leaves a mark on us, but it also leaves a marks on others. The wounds we inflict on ourselves and others because of anger—loss of intimacy, trust, security, and enjoyment in our closest relationships—give us compelling reasons to look closely at our anger and think carefully about how to grow in peace and patience.
But if you, like many others, have just gotten irritated for the umpteenth time today, you might wonder if change is possible. Can anyone truly find peace? The answer is yes, but you will need a plan. Biblical counselor and psychologist Ed Welch invites readers to take a fifty-day journey that unpacks anger while encouraging and teaching readers to respond with patience to life’s difficulties. Readers will also be introduced to Jesus, the key to any plan for change. Known as the Prince of Peace, he is the only one who can empower his people to grow in patience, peace, and wholeness.
- Provides short, daily meditations that encourage readers to look carefully at how their anger affects them and others.
- The fifty-day reading plan gives ample time for readers to unpack the underlying causes of irritation and frustration and develop a Spirit-led plan for growth.
- Offers encouragement and helps readers to develop the skills to deal with the universal problem of anger and respond with more patience to life’s difficulties
- Christ-centered teachings give readers hope that they can change not based on their own efforts, but through the work of Jesus and his indwelling Spirit.
- A useful tool for pastors, counselors, and lay helpers who are working with people who struggle with a short fuse.
What Is the Product for?
A Small Book about a Big Problem offers hope for change to people struggling with irritation and frustration and its effects on themselves and others. With fifty short, daily meditations, readers are provided with an easy-to-follow plan that gives them enough time to unpack the underlying causes of their irritation and frustration, as well as encouragement and skills to respond with more patience and peace to life’s difficulties. Centered around Christ, the work and teachings of Jesus give readers hope they can change not through their own actions, but through the life and spirit of the Prince of Peace.
Who Is the Product for?
While anger is a universal issue that everyone deals with, A Small Book about a Big Problem is written for people who recognize the destruction anger is causing to their lives and relationships, but do not know how to change. With fifty short, daily meditations that serve as a plan to deal with anger and its underlying causes, biblical counselor Ed Welch also provides readers with encouragement and skills to respond to life’s difficulties with more patience. Also a useful tool for pastors, counselors, family, and friends of people dealing with anger issues, this book offers hope through the life and work of Jesus that change can happen and peace is possible.
Day 1: A Slow Fifty-Day Walk
Day 2: Have Your Reasons
Day 3: What Is Anger?
Day 4: Judging the Judge
Day 5: Murderer
Day 6: The Many Faces of Anger
Day 7: Run toward Wisdom
Day 8: Anger and Our Desires
Day 9: Keep at It
Day 10: Blind Spots
Day 11: How Anger Feels
Day 12: Anger Is Against God
Day 13: Ask Forgiveness
Day 14: The God Who Forgives
Day 15: Jesus and Anger
Day 16: Completely Humble
Day 17: Thank You
Day 18: James on Anger
Day 19: God Gets Jealous
Day 20: What Is Your Plan?
Day 21: Seek Forgiveness, Make Amends
Day 22: You Have Been Anger’s Victim
Day 23: Talk to God
Day 24: Satan Loves Anger
Day 25: Real Strength and Power
Day 26: Anger Looks Right, Until . . .
Day 27: “Jesus Christ and Him Crucified”
Day 28: Grumbling
Day 29: “If the Lord Wills”
Day 30: Jealousy
Day 31: Full Vent
Day 32: Learned Anger
Day 33: God’s Anger
Day 34: Bless Your Enemy
Day 35: Ten Ways to Bless an Enemy
Day 36: Our Shield and Protector
Day 37: The Gift of Being Mistreated
Day 38: Hide, Point, and Shoot
Day 39: “Do You Have a Right to Be Angry?”
Day 40: “Quick to Listen”. . . to God
Day 41: Unlimited Patience
Day 42: God’s Behind-the-Scenes Anger
Day 43: Everyone Is Not You
Day 44: God Is the Judge
Day 45: Blame Sharing
Day 46: What’s Your Aim?
Day 47: Who Is My Neighbor?
Day 48: Fifteen Signs of Growth
Day 49: Be Angry
Day 50: The Long View
| Contributors | Edward T. Welch |
|---|---|
| ISBN | 9781945270130 |
| Format | Hardback |
| First published | December 2017 |
| Dimensions | 108mm x 158mm x 17mm |
| Weight | 0.20 kg |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 192 |
| Publisher | New Growth Press |
Does anger really require a basic treatment program of seven weeks? Yes. Small symptoms mask major diseases. In A Small Book about a Big Problem, Dr. Ed Welch masterfully combines biblical analysis and a lifetime of counseling experience with a gentle exposing of our true condition—and then prescribes gospel medicine. Complete the course! At first it may not taste good. But it offers the hope of long-term spiritual health.
As a young pastor anger nearly destroyed my family and my ministry. By grace, God rescued me. My hope is that this book, filled with profound insights, tender grace, and practical wisdom, will be used by God to rescue and restore many. I can't think of anyone who wouldn't benefit from reading it.
Anger is a big problem today—in our political life, in the world’s religions, on the highways, and in our own hearts. Scripture says it is often murderous, and it warns us about it at length. But often when we are angry, we don’t have the patience to listen to a lecture or treatise. Thankfully, Ed Welch’s book provides biblical teaching about anger in powerful, eloquent, short segments. Right to the point; right to our hearts.
