Dealing with Anger

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Until we understand our anger, we won't be able to control it. Today, R.C. Sproul asks penetrating questions to help us uncover the root causes of our anger, manage our emotions wisely, and cultivate self-control.

Get digital access to two teaching series from R.C. Sproul with your donation: Anger and Joy. We'll also send you two titles from his Crucial Questions booklet series—Is Anger Always a Sin? and Can I Have Joy in My Life?: https://gift.renewingyourmind.org/

Live outside the U.S. and Canada? Request both digital teaching series and the ebook editions of both Crucial Questions titles with your donation: https://www.renewingyourmind.org/global

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Meet Today's Teacher:

R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) was founder of Ligonier Ministries, first minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew's Chapel, first president of Reformation Bible College, and executive editor of Tabletalk magazine.

Meet the Host:

Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of media for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.

Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts

Transcript

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0:00.0	Ask yourself, what is your pattern?
0:03.0	Do you allow things to mount up to the explosive point?
0:07.0	Or are you able to handle them in an even-tempered way?
0:16.0	How do you respond in a crisis moment?
0:20.0	How do you respond to a slight inconvenience that happens
0:24.3	again and again and again? Understanding how you respond and knowing how the Bible calls us to
0:31.3	respond by God's grace helps us to deal without anger. This is the Tuesday edition of Renewing Your Mind. I'm Nathan
0:39.5	W. Bingham. Some people have a greater tendency to anger than others. Even as we grow in
0:45.5	sanctification, small frustrations can turn into explosions of anger if we're not on God.
0:52.4	So today, R. C. Sprawl is going to help us think about anger and
0:56.4	how we tend to react in order to help us deal with our anger. Today's message is the final
1:02.3	message in a five-part study, as you'll only hear two of those messages this week, because
1:07.9	tomorrow we'll turn our attention to joy.
1:17.9	Be sure to request access to all five messages, and his short read titled, Is Anger Always a Sin? When you give a donation at Renewing Your Mind.org in support of this daily outreach.
1:24.5	Well, here's Dr. Sprawl on Dealing with Anger.
1:30.5	We've seen that there is a legitimate place for anger.
1:35.4	There is such a thing as righteous indignation, as we see it first in the character of God
1:41.8	and then in the life of Christ himself. And we've looked at the apostolic
1:46.7	injunction, be angry, but sin not. And yet at the same time, we've seen how dangerous this
1:54.7	emotion can be, how volatile anger can become, how it can lead to violence, to estrangement, to bitterness, and a host of
2:04.6	other destructive sins. And what I want to do in this concluding message on anger is explore
2:13.4	briefly the root causes of anger and offer some practical suggestions on how we as Christians
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