Tag: Anger

• More Thoughts on Loving and Liking

  I wanted to clarify a few things from my last post.  Here are four things that I do not mean when I say that loving and liking someone is the same thing: I don’t mean that you have to be buddy-buddy with every person.  There is a way to be gentle, respectful, kind, truthful, and […]

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  October 13, 2009

  Life

• Powlison on Marital Intimacy

  CCEF has provided video interviews with biblical counselor David Powlison on questions about marital intimacy: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

  September 17, 2009

  Life

• Tripp on Not Seeing the Anger that Lives in You

  In part 5 of the “How to Be Good and Angry” seminar, Paul Tripp talks about what happens if you fail to acknowledge that anger is something that lives inside of you, not outside of you.  He said that if you fail to acknowledge this: You will personalize what is not personal. You will turn […]

  September 10, 2009

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• Be a Pipeline of God’s Mercy

  Sometimes when we are merciful toward others, we do it out of religious pride.  Other times, we do it begrudgingly simply because it’s the “Christian thing to do.”  But Jesus tells us that the foundation for our being merciful should be an overflow of love for how God has treated us: But love your enemies, […]

  September 6, 2009

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• Paul Tripp on How Good Things Become Bad Things

  Paul Tripp shows the progression of how good things in life become bad things, and then proceed to ruin our relationships. (This isn’t an exact quote, just my paraphrase.) Desire is basically an “I want…” Jesus did this Gethsemane. But then he said, “Father, not my will, but yours be done.” Well, our desire then […]

  September 4, 2009

  Life