Good and Angry, David Powlison
Good and Angry, David Powlison
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Good and Angry
Redeeming Anger, Irritation, Complaining, and Bitterness

Author: David Powlison

Narrator: Jim Seybert

Unabridged: 10 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/04/2021


Synopsis

Something that matters to you just isn't right. First you see the problem, then you feel it. It starts with a rush of adrenaline and often a rush of words, but it ends with an overwhelming sense of irritation that impacts how we talk to those we live and work with. We know anger affects us negatively, but we don't know any other way to respond when life goes wrong.

In this groundbreaking book David Powlison undertakes an in-depth exploration of the roots of anger, moral judgment, and righteous response by looking in a surprising place: God's own anger. Powlison reminds us that God gets angry too. He sees things in this world that aren't right and he wants justice too. But God's anger doesn't devolve into manipulation or trying to control others to get his own way. Instead his anger is good and redemptive. It causes him to step into our world to make wrongs right, sending his own Son to die so that we can be reconciled. He is both our model for change and our power to change.

Good and Angry sets listeners on a path toward a faithful and fruitful expression of anger. Powlison offers practical help for people who struggle with irritation, complaining, or bitterness and gives guidance for how to respond constructively when life goes wrong. You, your family, and your friends will all be glad that you listened to this book.


About David Powlison

David Powlison (1949-2019) was a teacher, counselor, and the executive director of the Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation (CCEF). He wrote many books and minibooks, including Speaking Truth in Love; Seeing with New Eyes; Power Encounters: Reclaiming Spiritual Warfare; The Biblical Counseling Movement: History and Context; Good and Angry: Redeeming Anger, Irritation, Complaining, and Bitterness; Making All Things New: Restoring Joy to the Sexually Broken; and God's Grace in Your Suffering. David was also the editor of the Journal of Biblical Counseling.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Tony on May 02, 2016

My endorsement: Between 1995 and 2006 David Powlison published five weighty journal articles that profoundly deepened (and challenged) my thinking on anger, and those articles, gathered up and Xerox copied many times over, have served for years as my top recommendation to friends and inquirers strugg......more

Goodreads review by Ada on July 10, 2023

An excellent book! Never have I heard such a comprehensive, thorough, deep, nuanced, clarifying take on this subject. It took me a whole year to go through the book, then listened to it in French (translated as Chrétien en colère) and even so I don’t think I have done it justice, I plan to reread ri......more

Goodreads review by Jordan on April 02, 2018

Insanely challenging, convicting, practical and re-orienting. I can’t imagine a person who wouldn’t benefit from this. Filled with gospel gut punches and lots of reflection questions to work through. Not a book you can just breeze through, even at its appropriate length. I’ll be referencing and usin......more

Goodreads review by Laura on May 02, 2021

30 years of counseling wisdom condensed into well-organized, high-impact practices for understanding anger. I cannot imagine a more powerful, inviting, kind, or encouraging book on this subject. I read a lot of books that maybe started with a decent idea on a blog post and then the author tried to s......more

Goodreads review by Tim on May 25, 2024

Truly brilliant book. At its core, anger is "That matters, and it’s wrong." We are acting like God when anger "energizes us to address real problems…We are made to be aroused to anger and to constructive action in the presence of moral evil. That’s what God is like." "You identify something wrong an......more