Articles on Secular-topics:emotions/anger

Why We Should Extend Grace to Others

How we grow strong in God's grace and why we give grace to others.

Posting After Paris? Social Media Is a Risky Pulpit

How do you respond wisely to what others are saying in the digital town square, especially when it touches a nerve?

When God Seems Distant

How to pray when you’re struggling with whether God is trustworthy.

When You Feel Like Joy Is Out of Reach

"I grew up thinking I had to be a certain way or get to a certain point for someone to love me. At the beginning of my senior year at a retreat for Cru, I learned God loves me exactly the way I am."

Controlling Anger

If you feel like anger gets the best of you, there's hope.

How to Grow Beyond the Pain of a Broken Family

How unresolved issues with family members will affect all your other relationships.

Shame and Racism

Discussing race in America can be uncomfortable. But as is the case with many important issues, becoming uncomfortable is the only way to make positive change. Only when people leave the comfort of ignorance and choose to enter into the messiness can we work together to bring about positive change.

The Gospel and Race

When we hold hatred in our hearts for other ethnic groups or when we refuse to love or when we think of ourselves as more valuable than other people groups, we rebel against God’s best intentions for us. This divides us and turns us against one another. Yet we are not without hope.

Reconciliation Begins With Lament

There’s no perfect recipe to listening and lamenting — no three-step plan to change your own heart. But there are steps you can take to open yourself up to the voices of others and prepare yourself for the changes that God wants to work in you.

Encouragement and the Fight for Justice

As you experience emotional fatigue from conversations around race, cultural competency and racial reconciliation, embracing God is not only necessary, but it offers renewal and the benefit of a new mindset.

Racism: What Thoughts or Feelings Come to Mind?

Click on a quote that best describes your thoughts and feelings about racism to learn more about God’s heart for you right where you’re at.

How I Found Hope in My Struggle With PTSD

After returning from active duty, Andrea suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder. She protected herself with anger and bitterness. But after participating in a project aimed at helping veterans heal from trauma, that armor began to fall apart. Read one woman’s story of healing and hope.

My Story: London Fletcher

A football player learns that he does not have to play with anger to be successful on the football field.

I Thought God Hated Me

I spent most of high school as a total jerk.

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