Above All Else: From Anger to Graciousness
About this episode
Julia Price discusses the transformation from anger to graciousness in the context of the deadly sin of wrath.
In this week's message from the "Above All Else" series, Julia Price explores the deadly sin of wrath and how the gospel transforms us from anger to graciousness. Drawing on Romans 12:19–21, she unpacks how anger, when disordered, becomes wrath, and how only the forgiveness of the cross gives us a path out. “Of the Seven Deadly Sins, wrath is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel of the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back — in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.” — Frederick Buechner What Anger Is: - Anger = active displeasure toward something that’s important enough to care about (David Powlison) - Wrath = unrighteous anger aimed at the wrong things, sparked too easily, felt too strongly, or held too long Wrath’s Disordered Expressions: 1. We get angry about the wrong things 2. We get angry too easily 3. We get angrier than we should 4. We stay angry too long Moving from Wrath to Graciousness: 1…
People in this episode
Host: Julia Price
Topics covered
- anger
- graciousness
- forgiveness
- wrath
- gospel transformation
Keywords
- anger
- graciousness
- forgiveness
- wrath
- deadly sins
- gospel
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Above All Else, Romans 12:19–21
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