This Week at Our Perdido Key Campus Senior Pastor Kyle Valaer continues our new short sermon series titled “Proverbs: The Way of Wisdom.” This series will explore selected passages from the book of Proverbs, offering practical insights for daily living through God’s wisdom. We hope this resource is a blessing to you. For more information about the Point Church, please visit us online at www.tothepoint.church.
Take Aways:
- Anger is "active displeasure toward something that’s important enough to care about.” --David Powlison
- God experiences anger.
- The anger of men and women is not always sinful, but it usually is.
- Anger comes from within.
- Anger is something we need to be slow and careful with.
- "Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.”--Proverbs 14:29
"A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.”-- Proverbs 15:18 - “A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.”-- Proverbs 29:11
- “A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.”--Proverbs 15:1
- Be wary of the influence of anger.
- “Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.”--Proverbs 22:24-25
- “A man of great wrath will pay the penalty, for if you deliver him, you will only have to do it again.”--Proverbs 19:19
- Central to the work of Jesus on the cross is the satisfaction of God’s anger against sin.
- We follow One who's meek, lowly, and gentle, so we can't excuse the anger in our lives.
