Turning Anger from a Foe to a Friend, Part 1
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 21 November 2025
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Summary
Tired of anger hurting relationships? Want to stop losing your temper? Chip shows it's possible to control your temper and even turn anger from a foe into a friend.
Introduction: How to make anger work for you
- Anger is like a wild stallion out of control or under control.
- Our anger holds powerful potential for good and evil; it must be harnessed!
The A, B, C, Ds of anger:
- Acknowledge the anger
- Backtrack to the primary emotion
- Consider the cause
- Determine how best to deal with it
The practical process: How to deal with your anger
- At whom am I angry?
- What should I do?
- How do I deal with the situation?
- When should I deal with it?
God’s 3-step training method to bridle anger:
Step #1: “Be Quick to Hear”
- Our immediate response to God, others, circumstances, and our anger is to be “receptive listeners” not “reactionary responders.”
- Key Question: What is this anger telling me?
Step #2: “Be Slow to Speak”
- Our interim response to God, others, circumstances, and our anger is to “think before we speak.”
- Proverbs 10:19; 13:3; 29:20
- Key Question: What must I do to prevent a “verbal reflex response?”
Step #3: “Be Slow to Anger”
- Ecclesiastes 7:9
- Our life changing response to anger begins when we replace “reaction” with “reflection.”
- Key Question: What root issue is behind this anger? (ABCD Method)
Summary:
- Anger is a choice
- Anger is a secondary emotion
- It’s not wrong to feel angry, it’s what you do with it.
- The A, B, C, Ds of anger
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| 0:00.0 | Do you know someone with an anger problem? |
| 0:04.6 | Their outbursts of anger alienate you, maybe those you love? |
| 0:08.7 | Do you wish you could help them stop losing their temper? |
| 0:12.1 | You can learn today to help others turn their anger from a foe to a friend. |
| 0:18.3 | Stay with me. |
| 0:26.6 | Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. We are an international teaching and discipleship ministry dedicated to helping Christians worldwide |
| 0:32.6 | live out their faith for the glory of God and the good of all. We're in the middle of |
| 0:36.9 | Chip's timely and relevant series |
| 0:38.8 | overcoming emotions that destroy. So far we've learned where this monster of rage comes from |
| 0:44.2 | and why everyone struggles to control this powerful emotion. Today, Chip takes our study a layer deeper |
| 0:50.8 | by suggesting that we can wield anger as a tool for good rather than a weapon |
| 0:56.1 | for evil. |
| 0:57.5 | So if you're ready to learn how to do that, grab your Bible and notes as we join Chip |
| 1:01.4 | for his message, Turning Anger from a foe to a friend. |
| 1:06.6 | I was an adventuressome eight or nine year old. |
| 1:08.8 | It's probably hard to believe, but I was a very high-risk, loony kid that was in the emergency room regularly. |
| 1:15.3 | And so we were visiting my grandmother, and she lived out in the country in West Virginia |
| 1:21.0 | and had this huge hill right behind her house, and there was a little barn. |
| 1:25.1 | And, of course, when I got there, I was about nine, maybe ten. |
| 1:28.4 | I can't remember exactly. But she said, someone's keeping a horse in the big field that goes |
| 1:34.8 | straight up. Don't go near the horse. The horse is wild. It hasn't been written in years. It's a huge |
| 1:42.6 | horse. You could really get hurt. Chip, do you hear me? Don't go near the horse. And I'm thinking, I got that one down. Absolutely, you know, I knew exactly what I was going to do. So I got my sisters to help me, and we found some stuff, and we fed the horse, and we got him closer and closer. And then I saw there was a saddle. I'm 10 years old. me and my sister, you know, here, you feed him here, and we got him closer and closer and then I saw there was a saddle I'm 10 years old |
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