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 - August 14, 2019
Heaven's Light
The brilliance of the gospel is heaven’s light. Heaven is a significant hope vital to the Christian’s sojourn. True sanctifying satisfaction in this world is found only when we live with the coming world in view. It is right and honors God that we should desire the glory of the life that Christ has purchased and is preparing for us. But we cannot desire what we do not know—knowledge of heaven is vital to the Christian life rightly lived. Knowledge of our future is designed to direct our present. Knowledge of future grace is a means of present grace. To live in heaven’s light is to live in hope that makes much of Christ (1 Peter 1:3). It is a hope unlike any other, for it produces a Christlikeness—a necessary holiness (1 John 3:2-3). This closing session on heaven focuses on these two profound products of the gospel that thrive in heaven’s light: hope and holiness. It points to the only appropriate response to a Christ-centered study of heaven. Charles Spurgeon captured it well when he said, “Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.” The final glory of the gospel is Christ, thus: “For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain” (Philippians 1:21).
