This book is the result of 15 years of teaching and research on the subject of anger by the author. Included are tools to change one's negative expression of anger to a healthy positive one. James Offutt also gives many down-to-earth illustrations from the lives of his students at Teen Challenge programs, church settings, and his own life. Whether you are a person struggling with life-controlling addictions, or just someone who wants to break the effects of negative anger in his own marriage, family, or personal life, this very straight forward and practical book may be for you.

We all will encounter some form of favoritism during our lives in our family, church, or workplace. Favoritism becomes destructive to everyone when an authority devotes most of his/her attention, praise and rewards solely to the favored one-called intentional favoritism. The unfavored and overlooked ones often feel deep anguish from the favoritism that can follow them the rest of their lives. Even the favored one and the initiating authority suffer from its affects. Jim Offutt has written this book to help each party in the favoritism cycle find true healing through God's help and direction....