Well, Friday, we talked about the difference between unholy anger and holy anger, and you

Pastor John talked about anger as a marriage killer.

Today we look more closely at anger and its destructive force inside of the home.

An anonymous woman who listens to the podcast has written us a really sharp question,

Pastor John, here it is.

Pastor John, thank you for the years you have faithfully invested in this podcast.

For those years I don't believe you have ever spoken on emotional and verbal abuse inside

of the home.

At what point do emotional outbursts from an adult in a home call for a church discipline

or for the involvement of the local church leadership?

I'm talking about verbal put downs aimed at children, cuss words, and raised voices

used in anger to force an opinion on the home in a consistent pattern.

I want to keep this in the general level because I want you to offer general categories

for me and other listeners to use.

It's pretty obvious, amazingly, that this woman has really carefully crafted the description

of the behavior she's asking about, in other words, she asked me to provide the categories

to think about this, but she, I think, has done a remarkable job, and I'm sure it did

not come quickly, a remarkably good job, providing them already herself.

Now, let me re-read her key sentence and you'll see exactly what I mean.

And then I want to give some scriptures that throw what she says into such serious relief

and then close with a few other aspects that she may or may not be thinking about, but

I think are also important.

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