How to Manage your Anger | Chapel Hill Church Gig Harbor

Most of us will never commit murder. But Jesus says that’s not really the point. Because long before hands destroy people, hearts diminish them.
In this message, Pastor Ellis opens with a story from a playground fight at age nine and walks through what Jesus actually says about anger in the Sermon on the Mount, and why it’s more serious than most of us want to admit.

1. Why Jesus takes the sixth commandment, “you shall not murder,” and raises the bar to include anger, insults, and contempt, treating them all as matters of eternal weight
2. The places we express contempt every day: in traffic, online, in marriages, with our kids, in politics, in our own heads replaying conversations on repeat
3. What’s really underneath most of our anger: not just emotion, but a cry for justice, and what the gospel says about who gets to be the judge
4. How trusting God with justice is the only thing that actually sets us free from anger before it hardens into bitterness
5. Four practical steps to CALM anger before it pulls you off course: Cease, Acknowledge, Let Go, Move Toward

If there’s a relationship where anger or resentment has been building for a while, this one is for you.

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