A Small Book about a Big Problem
Meditations on Anger, Patience, and Peace
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5.0 • 7 Ratings
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
A Small Book about a Big Problem by biblical counselor and psychologist Edward T. Welch guides readers to look carefully at how their anger affects them and others through short, daily meditations.
In a fifty-day reading plan journey, Welch unpacks anger while encouraging and teaching readers to respond with patience to life's difficulties.
This biblically wise resource is a useful tool for pastors, counselors, and lay helpers who are working with people who struggle with a short fuse.
In A Small Book about a Big Problem, Welch invites readers to consider how everyone can find anger in their actions and attitudes, but Jesus, the Prince of Peace, is the only one who can empower his people to grow in patience, peace, and wholeness.
How many times today have you been irritated? Frustrated? Anger is so common—yet it also hurts. It not only leaves a mark on us, but it also leaves a mark on others.
The wounds we inflict on ourselves and others because of anger—loss of intimacy, trust, security, and enjoyment in our closest relationships—give us compelling reasons to look closely at our anger and lift our eyes to Christ.
Customer Reviews
A small book about a big, overlooked, poisonous, and heart hardening problem.
The book addresses the problem of anger over the course of 50 days, and it does it well, even though each chapter isn’t fully in-depth. It’s pretty clear that this isn’t a deeply exhaustive book, given that it’s only about a hundred pages long. Still, it offers enough to reflect on, to pray over, and to bring before God.
If anyone reading this review is struggling with anger—so much so that they felt led to seek help from someone wiser through this book—the core message here is simple but powerful: resist the urge to be angry, forgive as God has forgiven you, and use your words and actions to build up God’s children. The author reminds readers not to become their own obstacle in growing closer to God.
So, if you’re wrestling with anger, take the time to pray through the questions at the end of each chapter. Truly ponder them and allow God to reveal the answers that will help you heal and grow.
Father, I ask that as You guide those reading this book, You open their eyes to Your power—through Your grace and Your love, through all You’ve already done for us. Let that truth be the focus of our mornings and our nights, so we never forget it. Keep us from being so focused on others’ faults that we forget the mercy You’ve shown us.
Through Your strength in us, help us to forgive—one of the hardest things You ask of us. Let us do it with grace and mercy, and teach us to show others how to forgive, love, and give grace as You do.
Anger is one of those sins that clings tightly, but we ask You to help us step into the freedom You’ve already given us. You’ve promised that we will overcome, and we hold onto that promise even when we fail and must repent again and again. Remind us that if we haven’t been made perfect yet, You are still working on us. Keep us from being overcome by grief or despair over our shortcomings. Instead, fill us with patience, kindness, compassion, and abundant mercy.
Lord, thank You for the opportunity to draw close to You—to know You more deeply and to become more like You.
Thank You, God. In Jesus’ name, amen.