Rage: Understanding the Monster Within, Part 1
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 17 November 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
What can turn a normal rational person into an out of control monster - destroying relationships, abusing children, spewing threats, and alienating lifelong friends? Join Chip as he reveals the source of that devastating power, and how to keep it under control.
Introduction: James 1:19-20
A look at anger from God’s perspective:
- Definition: Anger is neither good nor bad; it is a “charged,” morally neutral, emotional response of protective preservation.
- Positively – It can be a healthy emotion that motivates us to correct attitudes, behaviors, or injustices that we perceive to be wrong. -Eph 4:26-27
- Negatively – It can be an unhealthy and destructive emotional response to protect us from (real or perceived) hurt, frustration, or personal attack. -Pro. 19:19; 22:24; 29:22
Anger wears many masks: We EXPRESS our ANGER in such a wide variety of ways that many people assume anger is not an issue in their life.
- Spewers: Anger is necessary – They’re exploding or calculating time bombs
- Stuffers: Anger is wrong – They deny and avoid OR pretend and ignore
- Leakers: Showing anger is wrong – They’re passive-aggressive
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| 0:00.0 | What can turn a normal, rational, ordinarily nice person into an out-of-control monster |
| 0:07.0 | destroying relationships, screaming at children, spewing threats, and alienating lifelong friends. |
| 0:15.0 | Today we'll discover the source of that devastating power and how to control it. Stay with me. Welcome to this edition of Living on |
| 0:24.2 | the Edge with Chip Ingram. The mission of this daily program is to intentionally disciple Christians |
| 0:29.7 | through the insightful Bible teaching of Chip Ingram. Thanks for joining us as we begin our series |
| 0:35.0 | Overcoming Emotions That Destroy. |
| 0:37.8 | In the coming programs, Chip will explore |
| 0:39.8 | the powerful emotion of anger, |
| 0:42.0 | identifying the factors that trigger it |
| 0:44.2 | and how we should respond when those feelings bubble to the surface. |
| 0:48.0 | So if you're ready, grab your Bible and go to James Chapter 1. |
| 0:51.4 | As Chip kicks off this series with his message, |
| 0:54.0 | Rage, Understanding the Monster Within. |
| 0:57.0 | What has the power to transform the tender heart of a loving mother |
| 1:03.0 | into a beast of fury as I watched her sling her 18-month-old baby |
| 1:09.0 | into the front of a dryer and slam the little one down in a chair. |
| 1:16.1 | What has the power to turn loving parents into neck bulging, vein-popping, screaming adults |
| 1:23.6 | who say the same thing over and over into the blank stairs of their elementary and teenage kids. |
| 1:32.1 | What has the power to turn good friends and passionate lovers into cold, calculated, critical marriage co-existors |
| 1:39.5 | who only do what's absolutely necessary to live under the same roof. |
| 1:45.5 | What has the power to turn a festive holiday family gathering |
| 1:49.3 | into a gut-twisting, name-calling, take sides, no-holes-barred, family feud that never gets resolved? |
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