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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 - January 30, 2019

Fight: Preparing for Temptation

Discipline of the Mind

Unit 3: Our Strategy
Sin is an antithesis to loving God. To love well, we must hate well—hate our sin. To have peace, we must fight—fight against temptation to sin. We cannot truly love God and sin in the same thought. Many Christians lack joy and peace because they do not fight against temptation with all the powers of their mind. Thus, they cannot say that they love God with all their heart, with all their soul, with all their mind, with and all their strength (Mark 12:30). But by the grace of God and His Spirit, the regenerate mind can love God well, hating sin well. But even for the regenerate in this fallen world under the curse, to love God will involve fighting temptation—and this requires the discipline of the mind.

From Series: "Discipline of the Mind"

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