We live in an angry world where we often see anger revealing itself through rage. There is road rage, cell phone rage, checkout line rage, and “I’ve lost my wife in Wal-Mart” rage. Have you ever suffered from one of these forms of rage? Regardless of the reason for our anger, in a few seconds we can say and do very hurtful things that can destroy a relationship that has taken years to build. We should be very careful about destroying relationships because of what truth in Proverbs 18:19?
That means it is harder to patch up a broken relationship than to capture a fortified city, and arguments separate friends like a gate locked with iron bars. Nothing hurts or destroys more relationships than anger. In this lesson, we will look at three things: the categories of anger, the causes of anger, and the cure for anger, beginning with …