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Resolving Everyday Conflict

Conflict is common. It’s common to all people and it’s common to all of life. It’s usually experienced in our ordinary interactions with an overbearing boss, a challenging colleague, a difficult neighbor, a moody teenager, a complaining spouse, etc. Conflict is common but applying the gospel to our conflicts is not. Most of us hate conflict. So we either respond with dysfunctional conflict avoidance or dysfunctional anger. Either way bitterness and callousness set in. Though we want to deal with conflict in a more God-honoring, people-loving way we often do not know how to.

Resolving Everyday Conflict is a nine-week study, based on the book by Peacemaker Ministries, that seeks to unpack key biblical principles for dealing with conflict resolution and cultivating healthier relationships. It is a Christ-centered study that presents powerful and practical answers to everyday problems. Whether you’re struggling in a relationship at home, at work, at school, or know someone who is, this study offers help for living out the gospel in our relationships.

Workbooks are available for this study (from our Wednesday night service – 7:00pm each week). If you would like to purchase a copy, please email the church office. Cost per book: $5. I addition, you can also pick up the book copy of the original material from Peacemaker Ministries: Resolving Everyday Conflict here.

Manny Pereira - September 5, 2018

Art of Redeemed Thinking

Discipline of the Mind

Unit 2: Our Stewardship
The Practice of Godliness; Loving is more an art than a science, and it is the mind that works love. In other words, loving is linked to the art of thinking. Indeed, thinking is an art intended to be pleasing to the heart of God. Just as art cannot be reduced to mechanics, so loving cannot be reduced to mere discipline. Loving God involves appetites and cravings, realities that are more powerful than reason. While mathematics is involved in the making of beauty, creativity is the genius of art. So it is with redeemed thinking, discipline is necessary and can help to train and strengthen healthy habits of the mind but the genius of loving God falls to the art of the heart.

From Series: "Discipline of the Mind"

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