Anger—For Better or Worse?, preached on October 4, 2026

Now, that can be good, or that can be bad.

And some folks are keen to confess every experience of anger as somehow terrible or at least sufficiently annoying to our Lord, that even if they think their anger is justified, they want absolution just in case our Lord decides to be persnickety about all anger.

That's a bad idea.

Don't-- That causes stress to the confessor, so don't do that.

Um, anger is a tool, and we can use it well, or we can use it badly.

Well, how do we want to use it well? Well, St.

Paul writes, "Be renewed in the spirit of your mind and put on the new man, which has been created according to God in justice and holiness of truth." So justice and holiness.

If we're going to use the very powerful tool of anger wisely and well, we have to be rooted in justice and holiness.

I don't know about you, but I've read a lot of studies.

Trying to be just and holy on your own, it never works, so we're gonna have to turn to God to get this right.