Why We all Struggle with Anger, Part 2

Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast

Living on the Edge

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Your anger, instead of becoming your worst nightmare, can be your best friend. In fact, God wants to turn your anger into a tool that will serve you and help you like never before. Join Chip as he unpacks this powerful tool from God’s Word.

Introduction: Anger is a secondary emotion

It is easier to be angry than to face the deeper, more sensitive issues of anger.
Anger is not the problem. Anger is the red warning light on the dashboard – something under the hood is amiss.
We cover stuff inside that God wants to heal, forgive, and restore.

Three root issues behind anger:

1. HURT = Real or perceived unmet needs

Tool: “I feel….” Messages – Attack the issue not the person

2. FRUSTRATION = Real or perceived unmet expectations

Tool: “I desire…” vs. “I demand….” Statements

3. INSECURITY = Real or perceived attacks on my worth

Tool: Ask yourself, “Why am I feeling threatened?”

Summary: The first step in overcoming the destructive power of anger is the COURAGE to look below the surface.

Anger is the light on the dashboard; something’s wrong under the hood.
Anger is our way of protecting ourselves from painful, hard-to-deal-with hurts, frustrations, and insecurities.
Anger has many faces and despite its power for good, it destroys, unless we learn to…-Acknowledge it-Back-track to the 1st emotion-Consider the real cause-Determine to rightly respond

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0:00.0	Anger is a secondary emotion.
0:04.0	Now what I mean by that is your problem is not anger.
0:07.0	It's like an iceberg.
0:08.0	Anger is the tip that reveals something deeper inside.
0:12.0	Many people spend their whole life trying to overcome their anger.
0:16.0	It never works because it's not the real issue.
0:19.0	If you want to learn what the real issue is, stay with me.
0:26.3	Thanks for listening to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Engram. We are an international
0:32.2	teaching and discipleship ministry that encourages and equips Christians to live like Christians.
0:38.3	Well, in this program we're picking up in our series, Overcoming Emotions That Destroy,
0:42.3	with the second half of Chip's Message, why we all struggle with anger.
0:46.3	But before he gets going, to help you continue to get the most out of this series,
0:50.3	let me encourage you to download Chip's message notes.
0:57.9	And they contain his outline, scripture references, and much more.
1:02.7	You can get them by going to the broadcasts tab at living on theedge.org,
1:05.3	app listeners tap fill in notes.
1:10.2	All right, without any further delay, here's Chip with the remainder of his insightful talk. Okay, anger is a secondary emotion. We got it. It's an iceberg up here underneath. You have unmet needs, hurt. There's two more.
1:20.6	The second, the second reason that we bolt to anger is frustration. Frustration is real or perceived unmet expectations.
1:31.3	The distance between what you expect to happen
1:36.3	and what really happens, if it's a little, we call it frustration.
1:40.3	If you expect this to happen and this is your experience, that's anger. If you expect this to happen, and this is your experience, that's anger.
1:45.0	If you expect this to happen and this happens, you are super ticked off.
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