Are you angry with someone right now?

Or has that anger drifted into a dislike that borders on bitterness?

That's not a good parking spot for the soul.

The strong emotions that come with anger are what can get us into trouble.

Being angry is not a sin by itself, but the way we express that anger can easily become sinful.

Thank you for joining Keep the Heart for today's podcast with Francie Taylor.

Francie is an author, conference speaker, and teacher.

She is passionate about teaching what to do with what we learn from God's Word.

Now back to today's valuable study.

Welcome to sound bites.

Topics that are scripturally sound in bite-sized episodes.

Today's sound bite is about anger, which is an emotion that can be useful when

appropriately applied, but it's harmful when it's abused. Let's look at what the Bible has for our

brief study on anger. The first verse we're going to look at is in Psalm 145 verse 8, and it's our

example verse. It says this, The Lord is gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger and of great mercy.

You know what we have right there? A pattern. Are we gracious?

If we're not, why aren't we? Is it because we've forgotten that we were given so much grace?

Are we full of compassion? Or are we just so irritated that we just cut people off

and ask questions later? Are we slow to anger or do we knee-jerk react? And do we have great mercy?

Or do we just deny other people mercy? But we expect them to give it to us. You know, we can be such odd creatures,

can't we? The best thing that we can do in our Christian life is copy Christ. When you look at

scripture and you see passages like this, they are literally patterns for living. The Lord is

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