Angry People and What We Can Learn from Them

by Warren W. Wiersbe

What do Moses, King David, the prophet Jonah, and Jesus Christ have in common? According to Scripture, they all experienced anger. Some experienced righteous anger; for others, their anger was sinful. In this book, Warren Wiersbe uncovers some surprising insights about anger, an emotion everyone deals with regularly. Using Scripture as his springboard, he examines anger in all its forms, showing how it worked for good or bad in the lives of some of the Bible's most notorious-and righteous-people. As they learn about Elisha, Uzziah, and others who felt the fire of anger, readers will gain a new understanding of how to control this force and use it the way God intended. Angry People was previously published in 1987 as Angry Understanding and Overcoming Anger.

Genres: Christian

139 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1987

About the author

Warren W. Wiersbe, former pastor of the Moody Church and general director of Back to the Bible, has traveled widely as a Bible teacher and conference speaker. Because of his encouragement to those in ministry, Dr. Wiersbe is often referred to as 'the pastor's pastor.' He has ministered in churches and conferences throughout the United States as well as in Canada, Central and South America, and Europe. Dr. Wiersbe has written over 150 books, including the popular BE series of commentaries on every book of the Bible, which has sold more than four million copies. At the 2002 Christian Booksellers Convention, he was awarded the Gold Medallion Lifetime Achievement Award by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association. Dr. Wiersbe and his wife, Betty, live in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Reviews

[Alex Richmond]

People talk about anger all the time. About how we should control our tempers, or how anger is a bad thing. Well this was not a book I could recommend all that much, the book does talk about anger from a more biblical perspective. And how anger is not always a bad thing.

The book talks about anger as seen in people from the Bible. People got angry, and this book talks about not only why they got angry, what the Bible says about it. There's a difference between different types of anger. Jonah was angry that a city was not destroyed, and Jesus was angry to see the temple defiled. Angry for different reasons, and that's what the point is.

Anger is not a sin, if God and Jesus can become angry, then so can we. The question is why are we hungry?

The book has good points, I did not hate the book. Just not a favorite. Religious scholars and those dealing with anger, could potentially get a lot more out of this book than me. But I did enjoy reading a book that talked about how anger can sometimes be a good thing, depending on how we handle it, and why we are angry.

[Beverly Lammey]

Actually I read Angry People, Understanding and Overcoming Anger.

[John]

Excellent book thoughtfully written with great insights with support of Scriptures