Anger and Stress Management God's Way

by Wayne A. Mack

Overview

Anger and stress affect each of us every day—even if we aren’t feeling them ourselves, we come into contact with people who are. But their commonplace nature shouldn’t cause us to shrug them away. Anger and stress are both destroyers, and they must be controlled before they bring devastating harm. Mack exhorts us: “You don’t have to be overcome and destroyed by ungodly anger or stress. By God’s grace, you can be an overcomer." Of all the resources available to us, the Bible contains the most trustworthy and helpful guidance on how to handle ungodly anger and stress. Internationally respected and experienced biblical counselor Wayne Mack shows how to turn to God’s Word to find help, explaining principles that can be adopted for lasting positive change. Includes study questions and evaluation materials.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781629952956
Publisher:	Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing
Publication date:	04/28/2017
Pages:	144
Sales rank:	497,988
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr. Wayne A. Mack lives in Pretoria, South Africa, where he serves as director of ACBC Africa. He is the founder of Strengthening Ministries Training Institute, a certified training center of ACBC International. Previously he served as chairman of the biblical counseling department at The Master’s University and Seminary in California. He was a board member of NANC (now the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors) and FIRE (Fellowship of Independent Reformed Evangelicals). He also counseled and taught at CCEF (Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation) for fifteen years. Wayne and his wife Carol have been married since 1957. They have four adult children and twenty-two grandchildren. He has written more than two dozen books on biblical counseling and practical Christian life issues.

Table of Contents

Foreword Tedd Tripp 5

Introduction 7

1 Sometimes It's Right and Sometimes Its Wrong to Be Angry 9

2 When Is Anger Wrong? 25

3 Learning to Be Good and Angry 41

4 Six Questions That Can Make the Difference 57

5 Where Does Stress Come From? 73

6 There Are Consequences 91

7 The Way of Escape: Part 1 103

8 The Way of Escape: Part 2 119

Editorial Reviews

I have just finished Wayne Mack’s Anger and Stress Management God’s Way. It is what I have come to expect from the heart and pen of Dr. Mack: pure principles from the pages of Scripture written in pure, pithy prose, which are pastorally and powerfully applied to people in their providential problems. Read it. Use it. Give it away to everyone who faces stress—which is to say, everyone this side of heaven!

George C. Scipione

Biblically thorough, practical, and warm—like an unusually careful and concerned physician, Dr. Mack has set about to thoroughly diagnose and treat the often ignored twin maladies that afflict so many. With the heart of a gentle pastor, Dr. Mack has drawn from decades of counseling experience to provide biblical, historical, and personal examples of how to properly handle that which provokes us. But far from giving us a book of anecdotes, these examples are used in service of a thorough diagnosis and plan for proactively responding to one’s own stress and anger. In a way that clarifies, convicts, and instructs, this book is immensely practical, offering immediate “homework” for becoming a James 1 “doer of the Word.” Dr. Mack has provided not only a manual for progressing in holiness, but also a training manual for those who are counseling others—whether a pastor in his study or a friend over coffee. Key features of this work are its emphasis on the most pertinent biblical passages, its helpful cautions about the use of righteous anger, and the light it shines on the popular means of mishandling stress and anger through such techniques as “venting” and “transference.” It has become my new go-to resource and recommendation for providing perspective in dealing with our everyday troubles. I rejoice that Dr. Mack has shared his wisdom with us all.

Ted Johnson

Are you tired of living with your uncontrolled anger? Are you usually stressed to the point of losing control? There is hope! In this well-written book, Dr. Wayne Mack expertly guides us through a thoroughly biblical way of defeating the response of sinful anger to the stress in our lives. This engaging book also provides helpful discussion questions in each chapter. As a Christian, I have been blessed by Dr. Mack's careful treatment of the Word. As a pastor and certified biblical counselor, I regularly use Dr. Mack's works, and this newest book will be added to the list! Pour yourself a tall glass of orange juice and prepare yourself to be encouraged to biblically respond to life's stresses!

Glenn Dunn

Anger and Stress Management God’s Way is truly what it says it is: God’s way. It is a compelling read and so very biblically practical. This book gives so much hope for true, God-honoring change. I will certainly use it in my counseling ministry, and I thank God for Wayne Mack. He is a gift to the biblical counseling world.

Martha Peace

I deeply appreciate the “biblical balance” that Dr. Mack conveys throughout Anger and Stress Management God’s Way. He presents emotions (including anger) not as automatically evil, but as one aspect of our creation in the image of God—this is biblical balance. As Dr. Mack develops his perspective on each topic, he erects a firm foundation of biblical truths and relates those truths relevantly to daily life—this is biblical balance. Perhaps most importantly, what Dr. Mack writes about he also lives out in his relationships—this is biblical balance.

Bob Kellemen

The strength of this book is its utter dependence upon Scripture. For those who struggle with anger and those who labor to help, this volume is a must-read. Every biblical counselor should own a copy and have it at the ready.

Daniel Kirk

Daily we face people who are either stressed or angry or both. All too often they are the faces in our own mirrors. Here is an immensely practical book, well written and easy to read, which you will find personally beneficial and a useful tool for helping others. Dr. Mack deals with the issues of anger and stress biblically, in a manner that demonstrates the sufficiency of the Scriptures and provides a truly helpful alternative to the world's unhelpful "take a chill pill."

Peter Sammons

Who hasn't been angry or stressed at some moment in his or her life? Some are that way chronically. More than once, adults have confessed to me that anger was the most characteristic attitude of a mother or father, and that failure to resolve things spiritually brought many additional difficulties into the home. Before this internal tornado causes more damage in your own life, read what experienced biblical counselor Wayne Mack has to say in this book. Take a biblical look at your problem and at the practical plan the Lord has for liberating you from wrong patterns and attitudes.

Jim Elliff

Anger and Stress Management is theologically sound and efficiently practical. The illustrations, insights, and anecdotes come together in such a way as to lead the reader to understand the issues of anger and stress and to overcome these issues in a way that is glorifying to God and edifying to the reader. Great book!

Nicolas Ellen

How refreshing to have these very common issues of anger and stress covered so thoroughly and biblically! Dr. Mack uses Scripture to cut to the core and provide real solutions, which are often in contrast to the empty "solutions" so popular in the world and the church. Dr. Mack has provided a valuable resource for both pastors and their churches.

Bruce Blakey