You’ve heard of trampoline parks and escape rooms, but there’s a new trend called the “rage room.” Rage rooms have grown in popularity in recent years, especially due to COVID, and they continue to pop up across the country. Basically, you pay money to go into an enclosed space and smash things to release all that pent-up anger.

One customer described the experience of going with her husband,

“At first, we were a little timid, but it didn’t take long before we were going full-out. We discovered that TVs are surprisingly hard to break, even with a metal baseball bat. …The best surprise? The old-school computer printer. I’d forgotten how much I hated printers for all the times they’d run out of ink, mangled my papers in college, or got jammed. That printer became a symbol for years of frustration, and it felt great to just destroy that thing….

“The most satisfying items to break [were] the glassware. My husband would “pitch” me a beer bottle or glass, and I’d hit it with the baseball bat. We laughed and cheered and smashed stuff until every last thing was unrecognizably destroyed. It was such a huge adrenaline rush. For the first time in what seemed like forever, I finally felt in control.”

This may all sound like fun and games, but these rooms illustrate a deeper problem in society. We have anger issues. Temper tantrums, road rage, campus protests, street riots, cyberbullying, hostile work environments, even assassination attempts on national leaders. People are angry, and most of them don’t know how to get help.

According to one recent report, 30% of adults struggle to control their anger. And 64% of teens and young adults admit they have uncontrolled anger. In this study of Colossians 3:8, we learn…

• Why anger is so dangerous
• Getting to the heart of the matter
• Is it ever OK to be angry?
• Five strategies to overcome anger
• How Jesus can give you peace

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