🔥 Triggered: When the Past Keeps Showing Up

Why do we sometimes overreact? Maybe the real issue isn’t the moment—it’s the memory behind it.

In Week 3 of our Triggered series, we’re confronting something deeper: how old wounds and unprocessed pain keep hijacking our present. That unexpected blow-up, that overreaction—it might not be about now. It might be about something you never healed from. But here’s the good news: Jesus doesn’t just offer peace for the present—He offers redemption for the past.

📖 This week, we’ll see how Scripture helps us break reaction cycles by inviting Jesus into what still hurts. You don’t have to keep recycling your pain. You can release it.

📚 Key Scriptures:

  • Matthew 15:18–19 (What comes out of the mouth starts in the heart)

  • Psalm 34:18 (The Lord is close to the brokenhearted)

  • Romans 8:28 (God works in all things for good)

  • Matthew 11:28–30 (Come to Me, all who are weary)

🗝️ Your past may explain your reactions, but it doesn’t have to define them.

🌱 In This Sermon, You’ll Learn:

✔️ Why emotional overreactions often trace back to unhealed pain

✔️ How to stop recycling old wounds and start releasing them

✔️ Why pretending doesn’t heal—but honesty does

✔️ What it looks like to entrust your past to Jesus, not be ruled by it

💬 “You don’t have to keep reacting from what you never released.”

Discussion Questions:

  1. What part of your past are you still carrying?

  2. What reaction pattern might be pointing to an unhealed wound?

  3. What do you need to grieve, name, or entrust to God?