Keeping Your Cool-- When Your Anger Is Hot!: Practical Steps for Tempering Your Fiery Emotions

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Popular biblical counselor June Hunt, heard on the award-winning Hope for the Heart broadcast nationwide and in 25 countries, gives biblical and compassionate guidance on the sensitive topic of anger.

The fiery emotion of anger often causes us to say and do things we later regret. And try as we might, it's an emotion that's tough to control. How can we prevail?

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Overview

Popular biblical counselor June Hunt, heard on the award-winning Hope for the Heart broadcast nationwide and in 25 countries, gives biblical and compassionate guidance on the sensitive topic of anger.

The fiery emotion of anger often causes us to say and do things we later regret. And try as we might, it's an emotion that's tough to control. How can we prevail?

June helps readers carefully explore the various causes and kinds of anger and the biblical steps toward resolution. Readers will learn...

  • how to identify the triggers of anger
  • ways of dealing with past angers buried deep in the heart
  • what the Bible says about righteous and unrighteous anger
  • how to bring about real and lasting change

This book brings together a rare combination of forthrightness and gentleness that will effectively lead readers to surrender their anger to God and enjoy greater forgiveness and peace.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780736924245
  • Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
  • Publication date: 10/1/2009
  • Pages: 296
  • Sales rank: 639,949
  • Product dimensions: 5.40 (w) x 8.40 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction: A View Behind the Interview 7

Part 1 Fanning the Embers: The Truth About Anger and How It Affects Our Lives

1 The Anger Bowl 15

The Overwhelming Pain of Our Anger

2 Turning Up the Heat 21

The Four Intensities of Our Anger

3 Fuel for the Fire 37

The Four Sources of Our Anger

4 Ashes to Ashes 57

The High Cost of Our Unresolved Anger

5 The Fire Eaters 73

The Harm of Holding in Our Anger

6 The Flamethrowers 89

The Damaging Displays of Our Anger

Part 2 Detecting Unquenchable Fires: Why We Stay Stuck in Unhealthy Anger Patterns

7 Blast from the Past 107

How Childhood Hurts Kindle Current Anger

8 Too Hot to Handle 121

How Being Defensive Heats Up Past Anger

9 Fire and Ice 131

How a Controlling Spirit Fuels Chronic Anger

10 Self-Inflicted Flames 147

How Guilt and Shame Ignite Harmful Anger

11 Fuming at the Father 163

How Assumptions About God Result in Bitter Anger

Part 3 Fighting Fire with Fire: How to Use Anger in Healthy Ways

12 Smoldering Embers 183

How to Extinguish the Pain of Unresolved Anger

13 Let Cooler Heads Prevail 199

How to Put Out the Flames of Present Anger

14 Creative Combustion 215

How to Fight for Right with Justifiable Anger

15 Bomb Squad Basics 229

How to Handle Hotheaded People

16 Quenching the Coals 249

How to Plan Ahead for Anger Flare-Ups

17 The Refiner's Fire 267

How to Respond to Blowups by Setting Boundaries

Epilogue: The Fire Extinguisher 285

How to "Act Rather Than React"

Notes 289

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