Are You Prone to Irritability? | New Testament | Mark 8

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🗓️ 10 October 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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When do you find yourself becoming irritated? At work? With your kids? Around your spouse? What are the dangers of irritability? How can you stop it? In today's episode, Tanya looks to Jesus's disciples in Mark 8 to discover three lessons about irritability. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Join the TMBT community in reading the entire New Testament in one year. Get your FREE reading plan here. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so others can find it too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: Mark 8

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks.
0:05.0	Where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.
0:11.0	I'm Tanya Wilmoth. to get irritated with someone is it a you problem or a them problem the irritating little
0:19.6	sister that wants to borrow your clothes the coworker that wants to talk to you every time they see you in the hall,
0:25.2	the parent that tries to ask you questions about your day after school, the spouse that doesn't put the kids to bed the same way you would.
0:33.2	We've accepted irritation as a way of life.
0:35.7	If we are irritated, it's because people are actually quite irritating.
0:39.7	If they would change, we wouldn't be irritated.
0:42.4	What about you?
0:43.3	When do you get irritated with someone?
0:45.4	And how do you treat them when you're irritated?
0:47.4	The silent treatment?
0:48.7	Keeping your distance?
0:49.7	Short answers?
0:50.8	Negative body language, talking about them to others.
0:54.4	Irritation is actually much more of a problem than we think it is.
0:58.1	In his book, Loving the way Jesus loves, Phil Reichen says,
1:01.3	we should take our irritation very seriously because it is the very opposite of love.
1:06.3	And it is not merely a way of complaining, therefore, but actually a way of hating.
1:12.0	We know this is true because Jesus was around some of the most
1:14.8	irritating people in God's great kingdom and he was not irritable. Today we're
1:21.0	going to look at Mark chapter 8 and let the disciples show us what irritability looks like.
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