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 - February 21, 2024
Psalms
God is worthy of all praise in all circumstances. Such is the overarching point of the largest and mostly widely used book in the Bible. The “Book of Praises” or Psalms call God’s covenant people to worship, directing and assisting them in songs of prayer and praise expressed in the full range of human experience and hope, for God’s glory and their good. They lift us and teach us to praise God in and for His worth, His works, and His word. Deeply personal and yet strongly corporate, the Psalms inspire and instruct us concerning faith and devotion in a penetrating and remarkably relatable manner. Together they represent, as Calvin says, an “anatomy of all the parts of the soul,” enabling and engaging the fullness of the image of God in express relationship to God. Uniquely, they celebrate with special attention to God’s deliverance through God’s king and the hope of future blessing and peace in His kingdom. Thus is the divinely inspired Hebrew hymnbook.
Scripture References: Psalms 1:1
