Tag: anger

• What Are You Storing in Your Heart?

  11I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.–Psalm 119 I counsel my friends journeying with depression to maintain a quiver of arrows ready to draw upon and fire. Each of those arrows is a powerful piece of self-talk based upon Biblical truth. And the best arrows are…

  bradshawjoel

  September 3, 2023

  psalms

  addiction, anger, bible, christian, depressed, depression, excuses, faith, God, heart, hidden, hope, infuence, jesus, lust, perspective, psalm, psalm 119, rationalization, save, self-talk, selfish, sin, store, story

• Stillness and Self-Talk

  10“Be still, and know that I am God.I will be exalted among the nations,I will be exalted in the earth!”–Psalm 46 I am a father of two children. They often are not still, always moving about. And sometimes that movement tells a story. I remember the days when my wife and I had to remind…

  bradshawjoel

  July 12, 2023

  psalms

  1 corinthians 10:31, anger, anxiety, be still, bible, children, christian, devo, devotional, faith, faithful, father, God, good, hand, heart, hope, parenting, perspective, provider, psalm 46, psalms, self-talk, sovereignty, theology, trust, worry

• Read If Bitter

  1How long, O LORD? Will you forget me forever?How long will you hide your face from me?2How long must I take counsel in my souland have sorrow in my heart all the day?How long shall my enemy be exalted over me? 3Consider and answer me, O LORD my God; light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep…

  bradshawjoel

  June 17, 2023

  psalms

  anger, angry, bible, bitter, bitterness, christian, david, devo, devotional, faith, God, heart, jesus, perspective, psalm, psalm 13, toola

• Indignant God

  11God is a righteous judge, and a God who feels indignation every day.–Psalm 7 David spent Psalm 7 pondering man’s wickedness and God’s judgment. The word he used for indignant is a rare one and can mean ‘anger, curse, denounce, and abhor.’ Jesus showed indignation when he cleansed the temple (John 2). He was angry,…

  bradshawjoel

  June 15, 2023

  psalms

  anger, bible, christian, forgiveness, God, heart, indignant, jesus, psalm, psalm 7, selfish, selfishness, serious, sin, sinner, theology

• Two Years

  8So in the morning his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was none who could interpret them to Pharaoh. 9Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “I remember my offenses today. 10When Pharaoh was angry with…

  bradshawjoel

  April 12, 2023

  genesis

  anger, anxiety, bible, bitterness, christian, dependance, depression, dreams, faith, genesis, genesis 41, God, heart, hope, joseph, pharaoh, self-talk, stress, trust, waiting

• Comfort in the Wilderness

  8And the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. 9But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, laughing. 10So she said to Abraham, “Cast out this slave woman with her son, for the son of this slave woman shall…

  bradshawjoel

  March 22, 2023

  genesis

  abraham, anger, anxiety, bible, christian, depression, emotions, fear, genesis, genesis 21, God, hagar, heart, hope, ishmael, jesus, perspective, wilderness

• The First Counseling Session

  Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a worker of the ground. 3In the course of time Cain brought to the LORD an offering of the fruit of the ground, 4and Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions. And the LORD had regard for Abel and his offering, 5but for Cain and his…

  bradshawjoel

  March 7, 2023

  genesis

  abel, anger, anxiety, barbecue, bible, cain, christian, control, counsel, counseling, depression, faith, genesis, genesis 4, God, heart, hope, obey, sacrifice, sin, temptation, trust

• Depression’s Inner War

  6As they were coming home, when David returned from striking down the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with songs of joy, and with musical instruments. 7And the women sang to one another as they celebrated, “Saul has struck down his thousands,and…

  bradshawjoel

  November 25, 2022

  1 samuel

  1 samuel, 1 Samuel 18, anger, bible, christian, depression, God, heart, hope, inner, list, saul, self-talk, stories, war

• The Great Balance

  29Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.–Proverbs 14 Like many proverbs, here there is one of those playground things I grew up calling a “teeter-totter”. One one side is slowness to anger with his friend understanding. On the other side is a hasty temper and…

  bradshawjoel

  October 14, 2022

  proverbs

  anger, balance, bible, christian, emotions, God, reactionary, selfishness, teeter-totter

• Bitterness Buster

  1How long, O LORD? Will you forget me forever?How long will you hide your face from me?2How long must I take counsel in my souland have sorrow in my heart all the day?How long shall my enemy be exalted over me? 3Consider and answer me, O LORD my God; light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep…

  bradshawjoel

  April 18, 2022

  psalms

  anger, anxiety, bitter, bitterness, david, depression, fear, hope, lament, psalm 13, psalms, trust