Defusing Anger

James, the brother of Jesus, writes a letter to the early church that echoes much of Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount. James’s letter is largely an unpacking of Jesus’s teaching. In these verses, James focuses on the heart of Jesus’s teaching on anger. The Jesus way is being “slow to anger.” Jesus’s and James’s teachings reveal that God is after our hearts. God wants us to be people who put off anger and grow into people of love...