Unoffendable: How Just One Change Can Make All of Life Better (updated with two new chapters)

by Brant Hansen

I’m not entitled to anger, because I’m me. I can’t handle anger. I don’t have the strength of character to do it. Only God does. We can trust Him with it. Jesus gets angry, but His character is beyond question, so He is entitled.

this confusion when it comes to injustice, anger, and action: a recent study found that people who join causes online are not more apt to actually do something—they’re less likely to take action. According to research from the University of British Columbia, if you click “Like” on “Help the Poor Children of Wherever,” you’re actually less likely to give actual money to help the actual poor children of Wherever.1 It’s “slacktivism” in action. (“Inaction” is more accurate.) Let’s

we’re positively in love with “taking stands”

Why isn’t righteous anger ever listed among the things that a Spirit-filled life will bring us? If it’s righteous, why is it not akin to the “fruit of the Spirit,” like love, joy, peace, and gentleness? Why is anger in Scripture so consistently lumped in the other lists with things like, say, slander and malice, with no exclusions for the “righteous” variety?

I thought, It doesn’t even matter what he says to me. And it doesn’t matter if I feel stupid. I just want to love people for once. It doesn’t matter if I feel stupid.