As we continue through Matthew and the Sermon on the Mount, we wanted to provide you with additional resources on the topics of anger, lust and marriage/divorce.

You can find the teaching from our gathering here. As we mentioned at the gathering, none of us are meant to figure out these things alone. If you’d like to talk with a pastor or simply get prayer, click the button below.

Anger:

Dallas Willard has written and spoken on anger extensively.

He says:

“Anger embraced is, accordingly, inherently disintegrative of human personality and life. It does not have to be specifically “acted out” to poison the world. Because of what it is, and the way it seizes upon the body and its environment just by being there, it cannot be hidden. All our mental and emotional resources are marshaled to nurture and tend the anger, and our body throbs with it. Energy is dedicated to keeping the anger alive: we constantly remind ourselves of how wrongly we have been treated. And when it is allowed to govern our actions, of course, its evil is quickly multiplied in heart-rending consequences and in the replication of anger and rage in the hearts and bodies of everyone it touches.”

For a little more from his book The Divine Conspiracy, see here.

Here’s a teaching on Jesus’ way out of anger:

Lust:

On Sunday, Jon mentioned a teaching from Tim Mackie who helps lead the Bible Project.

The audio from “Jesus and Sexual Desire” can be found here.

See below for a video of the teaching:

Marriage and Divorce:

On of our favorite books on marriage is from Timothy Keller entitled “The Meaning of Marriage” you can find it for purchase here.

For an article summarizing some of the insights from the book click here.

John Piper gives some helpful insight on how couples can heal after adultery here.

A teaching from a Google Talk that Dr. Keller gave is below: