A Small Book about a Big Problem: Meditations on Anger, Patience, and Peace (A Small Book)
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Overview
A Small Book about a Big Problem by biblical counselor and psychologist Edward T. Welch guides readers to look carefully at how their anger affects them and others through short, daily meditations.
In a fifty-day reading plan journey, Welch unpacks anger while encouraging and teaching readers to respond with patience to life’s difficulties.
This biblically wise resource is a useful tool for pastors, counselors, and lay helpers who are working with people who struggle with a short fuse.
In A Small Book about a Big Problem, Welch invites readers to consider how everyone can find anger in their actions and attitudes, but Jesus, the Prince of Peace, is the only one who can empower his people to grow in patience, peace, and wholeness.
How many times today have you been irritated? Frustrated? Anger is so common—yet it also hurts. It not only leaves a mark on us, but it also leaves a mark on others.
The wounds we inflict on ourselves and others because of anger—loss of intimacy, trust, security, and enjoyment in our closest relationships—give us compelling reasons to look closely at our anger and lift our eyes to Christ.
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- Guides readers to look carefully at how their anger affects them and others
- Unpacks anger while encouraging and teaching readers to respond with patience to life’s difficulties
- Invites readers to consider how Jesus is the only one who can empower his people to grow in patience, peace, and wholeness
- A Slow Fifty-Day Walk
- Have Your Reasons
- What Is Anger?
- Judging the Judge
- Murderer
- The Many Faces of Anger
- Run toward Wisdom
- Anger and Our Desires
- Keep at It
- Blind Spots
- How Anger Feels
- Anger Is Against God
- Ask Forgiveness
- The God Who Forgives
- Jesus and Anger
- Completely Humble
- Thank You
- James on Anger
- God Gets Jealous
- What Is Your Plan?
- Seek Forgiveness, Make Amends
- You Have Been Anger’s Victim
- Talk to God
- Satan Loves Anger
- Real Strength and Power
- Anger Looks Right, Until . . .
- “Jesus Christ and Him Crucified”
- Grumbling
- “If the Lord Wills”
- Jealousy
- Full Vent
- Learned Anger
- God’s Anger
- Bless Your Enemy
- Ten Ways to Bless an Enemy
- Our Shield and Protector
- The Gift of Being Mistreated
- Hide, Point, and Shoot
- “Do You Have a Right to Be Angry?”
- “Quick to Listen”. . . to God
- Unlimited Patience
- God’s Behind-the-Scenes Anger
- Everyone Is Not You
- God Is the Judge
- Blame Sharing
- What’s Your Aim?
- Who Is My Neighbor?
- Fifteen Signs of Growth
- Be Angry
- The Long View
As a young pastor anger nearly destroyed my family and my ministry. By grace, God rescued me. My hope is that this book, filled with profound insights, tender grace, and practical wisdom, will be used by God to rescue and restore many. I can't think of anyone who wouldn't benefit from reading it.
Paul Tripp, Author of New Morning Mercies
The title of this book is accurate. These fifty reflections are brief and succinct, but they directly address one of the biggest and ugliest problems in the world. Anger is inextricably tied up with bitterness, envy, hate, an unbridled tongue, resentments, party spirit, and war. It divides homes and splits churches—and this among the people of God who, Jesus says, will be known for their love. This eminently probing and practical book is in part a collection of first steps for combatting this awful wickedness.
D. A. Carson, Research Professor of New Testament, Trinity Evangelical School, Deerfield, IL; cofounder of The Gospel Coalition
What a rich, insightful book! Ed's years of working with the heart come to life in these short, piercing vignettes. They aren't so much devotionalas they are disrupters. They will disrupt your heart for good. No matter where you are in the Christian life, you will find yourself arrested by this book. I'm getting one for each of our children.
Paul Miller, Founder of seeJesus; author of A Praying Life andNew Morning Mercies and A Loving Life
- Title: A Small Book about a Big Problem
- Author: Edward T. Welch
- Series: A Small Book
- Publisher: New Growth Press
- Print Publication Date: 2017
- Pages: 192
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9781945270130, 1945270136
- Resource ID: LLS:SMLLBKBGPRBLM
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-09-26T21:08:08Z
Edward T. Welch (PhD, University of Utah) is a counselor and faculty member at the Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation, where he has served since 1981. He holds a doctor of philosophy in counseling (neuropsychology) from the University of Utah and a master of divinity from Biblical Theological Seminary. Ed is a licensed psychologist and has been active in local church ministry for decades. He has been counseling for more than 35 years and has written extensively on the topics of depression, fear, and addictions. He has written numerous books, including When People Are Big and God Is Small (P&R Publishing, 1997), Shame Interrupted (New Growth Press, 2012), Side by Side (Crossway, 2015), and Created to Draw Near (Crossway, 2020). He blogs regularly at CCEF.org.