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 - May 29, 2019
Heaven's Glory
The whole of Scripture presents a story. It is a story about glory. Supreme in God’s purpose is the revelation and restoration of His glory in creation. Both of these manifestations of glory center on Christ. Heaven exists to make much of Christ, not heaven. He is heaven’s supreme glory. Heaven is a part of God’s creation. It is created to make much of Christ. It is created for us to desire. This session considers heaven’s glory in light of God as Creator and Redeemer. It looks at the importance of God’s purposes in creation and redemption, and the implications of Christ’s incarnation, resurrection, and the promise of the restoration of all things. It contrasts the Spiritual Vision and New Creation models of heaven. Glory is not merely mental, and holiness is not merely spiritual. God speaks of a new creation to stir the purest of tangible affections and to captivate our hearts—to aid in drawing us to long for heaven. But heaven has more to do with presence than with a place. It centers on Christ not creation. The Giver is greater than all His gifts. Everything in the new creation will serve to promote Christ and draw us nearer to Him. A Christian desire for heaven is uniquely a longing for the presence of God, to behold the glory of Christ (John 17:24). There will be many other enjoyments there, but these will be but drops to the ocean of being with Christ. Christ is the source and greatest substance of heaven’s glory.
