Bøker av Brad Davis

Anger management is not a skill you learn. It is a life changing achievement. There is such a freedom in having control over your anger instead of allowing your anger to have control over you. This book is geared towards learning techniques, scripture references, and applications which, when learned, will help you deal with the root issues of anger as well as learn daily applications for overcoming the control and effects of anger in your life. The real issue with Christians and anger is that it tends to be hidden (like sexual sins). But, because we are Christians, we want to try to appear perfect, and letting people know we have an anger problem might make us look "unchristian." So we take it out on those closest to us and "outsiders" never know. Because displaying anger in inappropriate ways is sin, many Christians are constantly beating themselves up, but they have no idea how to change, or where to go for help. This book includes help not only those with deep rooted anger problems, but also people dealing with everyday issues which lead to possible inappropriate displays of anger. It is written from the authors' personal perspective and includes many narratives about how she used inappropriate anger during the early years of her marriage, and in raising her children, and the methods she learned about controlling her anger. Chapter titles include: Choices, Self-Talk, Our Thought Process, Emotions & Anger, Rejection, Unrealistic Expectations, We Want Our Way, Act or React, Passive, Aggressive, or Assertive?, Seeing Others' Perspective, Goal Setting, Are You Angry At God?, Fair Fighting, Parenting & Anger, and Taking Time-Outs.

The human experience is an intimate, tough, and, at times, hilarious conversation with what is familiar and what is mystery. Poetry at its best turns this conversation into art and teaches by example how to employ language creatively and courageously--even coyly--in exploring the full range of human response to whatever life may deliver. Certainly the biblical Psalms set the highest of standards in this regard. In Opening King David, Davis takes aim at making contemporary poems in conversation with the Psalms; his personal, cultural, and natural surroundings; and the wonder and mess of his own soul. As a painter with all colors at his disposal, Davis writes with the full spectrum of his available vocabulary, sometimes reaching for the glorious ineffable, at other times bluntly telling it like it--darkly--is. Neither devotional nor inspirational nor religious, these human poems take God seriously and honor our common struggle toward what Saint Paul calls "the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ."

Description:The human experience is an intimate, tough, and, at times, hilarious conversation with what is familiar and what is mystery. Poetry at its best turns this conversation into art and teaches by example how to employ language creatively and courageously--even coyly--in exploring the full range of human response to whatever life may deliver. Certainly the biblical Psalms set the highest of standards in this regard. In Opening King David, Davis takes aim at making contemporary poems in conversation with the Psalms; his personal, cultural, and natural surroundings; and the wonder and mess of his own soul. As a painter with all colors at his disposal, Davis writes with the full spectrum of his available vocabulary, sometimes reaching for the glorious ineffable, at other times bluntly telling it like it--darkly--is. Neither devotional nor inspirational nor religious, these human poems take God seriously and honor our common struggle toward what Saint Paul calls ""the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.""Endorsements:""Like a Rabbi opening the sacred text, then toiling further yet to open every word therein, Brad Davis has pored over both the scriptures and our common circumstance to prod, to raise our wits, that we might glimpse how every challenge, every adversity might be met with grace.""--Scott Cairnsauthor of Compass of AffectionAbout the Contributor(s):Brad Davis has taught at the College of the Holy Cross, Eastern Connecticut State University, Pomfret School, and The Stony Brook School. Winner of an AWP Intro Journal Award and the Sunken Garden Poetry Prize, he has had poems published in Poetry, The Paris Review, Image, Michigan Quarterly Review, Tar River Poetry, Ascent, Chautauqua, and elsewhere. He is the author of four books of poems from Antrim House.