Tag: anger
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Dream: Dog-Tied
When I see someone doing evil, maybe I should start by asking why. Rather than how to stop them.
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Understanding Revenger (The Angry Part)
E. So what’s the deal with my man X? / R. You mean the one who’s always ranting about who’s at fault for all the problems in the world?
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Poem: Unblind Rage
Anger is God’s potent gift To cause our perspective to shift From passive estrangement To risky engagement
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Sex 202. Loving Terrorsaur
She is not an object of desire. She is not even human. Yet she is my next quest. Pterosaur Her: Why can’t you just leaves her alone? I look at her. I’m sure I could kill her. I know I want to.
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The Rogue Dialogues: Inner Healing for Leadership
This was my attempt to make peace with the “part” of me that had an unfortunate history of sabotaging my relationships with authority figures.
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Diarogue 6/7: Carnus, War
[Warning: contains explicit language] A big black man in the prime of life enters the stage. Bulging muscles peer out from under the rags he wears. He is carrying a wooden cross. He is royally pissed.
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Diarogue 2/7: Rogue, Wisdom
Episode #2 of The Rogue Dialogues: Inner Healing for Leadership Continued from Rogue, War A black-clad youth stands thoughtfully in a room. An elegant, classically-garbed woman enters. Athena: So what did you think of my brother? Rogue: Ares? He… wasn’t at all what I expected.
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Diarogue 1/7: Rogue, War
“I may be vicious and cruel, but I am not a savage. I know my place. I don’t expect gratitude, or even success. All I ask is the chance to expend my energy against an enemy that will push me to my utmost limits. Whether I live or die is…
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Limerick: The Inverse Of Anger
The inverse of anger at sin Is where reconciling begins For when we all seek To help out the weak We shift from win-lose to win-win
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DBJ-MOGA: Moses Overcomes God’s Anger (Exodus 32)
Register now! At 2-4pm on Sunday, July 18th we will ask Jesus to disciple us through one of the most confusing and disturbing passages in all of Scripture, at least to me: Exodus 32, where Moses apparently talks God out of destroying His people. Google Slides
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Meet the Dragons of Knight Club
The great challenge of manhood is learning to harness our emotions to serve a good purpose. As I mentioned earlier, I believe we need to harness (not slay) these Four Dragons of Manhood: Desire, Fear, Anger & Pride. Here’s a more comprehensive summary of my current understanding: Dragons Color Green Yellow…
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Knight Club: Moral Authority and the Fourth Dragon
One of the ways I tackle “wicked problems” is by exploring different possible answers in order to help clarify the essential question. My posts on flying and mastering the dragons of manhood have been useful in helping me recognize that the two main questions Knight Club is trying to answer are:…
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Knight Club: Mastering the Three Dragons of Manhood
In Sheila Walsh’s Will, God’s Mighty Warrior, there’s a scene where Will and his buddy Josh are pretending to be on a quest against monstrous beasts. They run into Will’s large English sheepdog. Josh is starting to defend himself, but Will assures his friend that “I have tamed this wild creature,…
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Knight Club: The Vicious Virtues
I often feel I owe my success more to my “vices” than to my “virtues.” What is a virtue? What is a vice? Impatience Anger Rebelliousness Restlessness Infatuation Daydreaming Desire Goofing Off Subversive Activity Laziness Quitting Boredom Fighting Delusions of Grandeur Society — especially school, but the church is arguably worse…
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Unforgiven: A Testimony in Three Persons
I’m in the process of cleaning up my “personal” site on DrErnie.com, and as part of that I’m moving some of my earlier writings to this site. To start with, I present “Unforgiven”, a more-or-less accurate transcript of the first time God really dealt with me about anger… Unforgiven A…
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LEAD! C.4 Fervent Fasting
Fasting denies our the body its most basic physical need so that God can supply our soul with its most fundamental spiritual needs. Memory Verse: “‘Now, therefore,’ says the LORD, ‘Turn to Me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.’ So rend your heart, and not…
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LEAD! B.8 From Anger to Reconciliation
Few things destroy the church more rapidly than anger and unforgiveness. To carry our cross means extending forgiveness to those who don’t deserve it, as Jesus did to us.
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LEAD! Part B: Christian Character
As mentioned earlier, the LEAD! Bible Study is a tripod, built on three legs: theological education character formation skill development Having finished writing the lessons for Part A, we now turn out attention to the second trimester (which the class will start in January). This blog post is for the…
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