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The Heart of Anger: How the Bible Transforms Anger in Our Understanding and Experience is unavailable, but you can change that!

Each person experiences anger—in their own hearts and in the words and actions of others. In this doctrinal, pastoral, and practical book, Christopher Ash and Steve Midgley explore the Bible’s teaching about anger through biblical examples such as Moses, Saul, David, and the Ephesian church as well as present-day accounts. Though sometimes right and godly, anger is more often rooted in greed,...

teeth at him” (Acts 7:54). Their (false) religious certainties have been challenged, and they react with outraged anger: Stephen must die. The hot, angry religious zeal of Saul of Tarsus arises directly out of this same event (Acts 8:1–3). This kind of zeal is inseparable from a self-righteous anger at those who challenge the shared certainties of religious people (cf. Phil. 3:6, “as to zeal, a persecutor of the church”). Further, they offend those who are convinced they are in the right, for Paul
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