Turning Anger from a Foe to a Friend, Part 2

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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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	Did you know it's possible to use your anger for good?
0:05.2	Now that might sound kind of backwards, but there's actually a way to use the raw power
0:09.7	of that emotion to bring about good in your life and to those around you.
0:13.7	Today I'll share some very specific ways where you can turn anger from a foe to a friend.
0:19.6	Don't go away.
0:22.0	Thanks for listening to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram.
0:26.7	We are an international teaching and discipleship ministry that motivates Christians to live like Christians.
0:33.4	Today we're diving back into our series, overcoming emotions thatotions That Destroy with part two of Chips Talk,
0:39.3	Turning Anger from a Fo to a Friend.
0:42.3	Now, if you've missed any part of this study,
0:44.3	you can catch up at living on theedge.org
0:47.3	or wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:50.3	If you're ready, go in your Bible to James Chapter 1.
1:00.8	We need to figure out the who, the what, the how, and then finally the when.
1:02.5	When should I deal with the situation?
1:04.4	You know, should I do it now?
1:05.7	Right now?
1:07.4	I mean, let's get this taken care of right now.
1:08.6	Should I do it later?
1:11.7	Or like in the case of that letter, should I do it never? At the bottom, we have a continuum of ways to express anger. And you can just see,
1:18.1	you know, I just wanted to give you this to get, you know, unhealthy way, get it all out,
1:21.9	healthy, you express it. The healthy way you redirect or release, unhealthy, you grin and bear it,
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