Well, hello, everyone. I'm James Dobson, and you're listening to Family Talk, a listener-supported ministry.

In fact, thank you so much for being part of that support for James Dobson Family Institute.

Well, welcome to Dr. James Dobson's Family Talk. I'm Roger Marsh, and on today's program,

we're bringing you a classic conversation about an emotion that affects nearly all of us,

okay, all of us, yet often goes unrecognized and unaddressed. The emotion is resentment,

and it's one that our guest calls the cancer of the emotions.

On today's edition of Family Talk, we'll hear Dr. Dobson having a conversation with his good

dear friend, Dr. Archibald Hart, a pioneering voice in Christian psychology, who served as

dean of the school of psychology at Fuller Seminary.

Dr. Hart went home to be with the Lord in 2021.

Before that, though, of course, he was a world-renowned expert on brain research and stress

and authored over 35 books during his remarkable career. Of course, Dr. Dobson and Dr. Hart

were the best of friends. And on today's program, Dr. Hart will explain why resentment is so destructive, how it develops from childhood,

and most importantly, how biblical forgiveness offers the only lasting solution.

Now let's listen in as Dr. James Dobson and Dr. Archhart explore this crucial topic on today's edition of Family Talk.

Why are we so subjected to this bitterness and anger and resentment that should not affect those who are in Christ Jesus?

Why does that plague us like it does?

Its origins are back in early childhood.

Right from the beginning of our existence, we have a need to protect ourselves, a need to

defend ourselves. And the need to fight back, the need to protect ourselves gives rise

very early to feelings of resentment. We stall them up. We delay our need to hurt back. In the early stages of childhood now, you don't delay them. If somebody irritates you and you're two years old, you throw your tonka truck out of them. Immediately, you respond by hurting back. If somebody hurts you, you hurt back. If Jimmy, you know, tramps on your foot, you tramp on his foot back right away. If he hits you in the stomach, you hit him back right away. We have this instinct of protection, one might say, of

defending ourselves. And shortly after that, you begin to learn that that's not acceptable,

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