The Heart of Anger: How the Bible Transforms Anger in Our Understanding and Experience

How should Christians understand anger, evaluate it, and respond for good?

We all struggle with anger at times: Our plans suddenly fall through, we lose a prized possession, or our reputation is called into question. More often than not, when anger knocks at the doors of our hearts we easily allow it to take over. But what if getting to the heart of our anger also reveals the way to transform it?

Christopher Ash and Steve Midgley address this question by bringing to bear what the whole Bible has to say about sinful anger―revealing that anger is the sinful response when something we value more than God is taken away or threatened. They reflect on biblical portraits of human anger, God’s righteous anger, and how only the gospel of Jesus Christ brings true freedom―transforming a heart of anger into a heart filled with the love of God.

• A survey of anger, looking at biblical examples from the Old and New Testaments
• Explains how a proper understanding of God’s wrath through the gospel of Jesus Christ can transform human anger
• Considers the role of the local church in the healing of anger

Christopher Ash is writer in residence at Tyndale House in Cambridge. He previously served as a pastor and church planter and as the director of the Proclamation Trust Cornhill Training Course in London. He and his wife, Carolyn, are members of Cambridge Presbyterian Church, and they have four children and numerous grandchildren.

Steve Midgley is the executive director of Biblical Counselling UK (BCUK) and, for 18 years, was the senior minister of Christ Church Cambridge where he continues as a part-time assistant minister. He is a conference speaker and a board member both for the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation (CCEF) and the Biblical Counseling Coalition. He and his wife, Beth, have three children and four grandchildren.