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A practical handbook on positive confrontation by the authors of the award-winning and best-selling Boundaries. Successful people confront well. They know that setting healthy boundaries improves relationships. They have discovered that uncomfortable—even dangerous—situations can often be avoided or resolved through direct conversation. But most of us don't know how to go about having difficult conversations. We see confrontation as scary or
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In this short, biblical, and practical book, pastor and author Tony Merida helps us resolve the relational conflicts that inevitably crop up in our daily lives, showing us how to stop wishing for peace and go make it in the power and pattern of Christ our ultimate Peacemaker.
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"By approaching disagreements in a more loving way and seeing the grace and good in those who hold differing viewpoints, you'll gain a deeper understanding of others, yourself, and God. Mike Donehey brings his disarming communication style to the question of how to engage in healthy, God-honoring discussions on difficult topics. Through a collection of personal stories about times when he learned the beauty of seeing outside his own perspective, together...
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How do we communicate with people who disagree with us? In today's polarized world, friends and strangers clash with each other over issues large and small. Coworkers have conflicts in the office. Married couples fight over finances. And online commenters demonize one another's political and religious perspectives. Is there any hope for restoring civil discourse? Communications expert Tim Muehlhoff provides a strategy for having difficult conversations,...
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"New York Times bestselling author Pastor Jentezen Franklin offers five life-giving keys to spiritual transformation and pulls back the curtain on the chaos that is attempting to hinder your growth and keep you from living to your fullest potential. you can walk into the destiny God has prepared for you"--
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Is an argument-free marriage possible? Fawn Weaver's answer is yes, absolutely, even when one or both partners are strong willed, independent, and opinionated. (She admits to being all three.) In this groundbreaking book, the best-selling author and award-winning marriage blogger asks readers to invest twenty-eight days in learning how to live together without bickering, blame, angry outbursts, or silent treatments. Fawn begins with the startling...
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"In a world of echo chambers and cancel culture, speaker and podcaster shows how we can stop running away from conflict and instead engage those we disagree with in love, live with necessary tension, and resolve internal and external conflicts to live more productive and peace-filled lives"--
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"Layton E. Williams proposes that our primary calling as humans is not to create unity but rather to seek authentic relationship with God, ourselves, one another, and the world around us. And that means actively engaging those with whom we disagree. Our religious, political, social, and cultural differences can create doubt and tension, but disunity also provides surprising gifts of perspective and grace. By analyzing conflict and rifts in both modern...
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When you get married, you expect your relationship to be a partnership in which you make decisions and face the world together, united. But often a husband's perspective and a wife's perspective on the same issue can be very different and unity in decision making can be tough. Should spouses take turns getting their way? Should they compromise? Can they avoid making decisions altogether? Dr. Harley says there's a better way--a way in which both partners...
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Jesus said, "Blessed are the peacemakers." But it often seems like conflict and disagreement are unavoidable. Serious, divisive conflict is everywhere-within families, in the church, and out in the world. And it can seem impossible to overcome its negative force in our lives.
In The Peacemaker, Ken Sande presents a comprehensive and practical theology for conflict resolution designed to bring about not only a cease-fire but also unity and harmony....
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Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Jesus. Congratulations! Your Goliath has arrived. Enemies often seem to get in the way of our plans, leaving us discouraged and disoriented. But what if these obstacles are a part of Gods plans for us? Our enemieswhether our weaknesses, circumstances, deep-seated sins, other people, or any other challengecan become our stepstool to new breakthroughs in...
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A warmhearted guidebook to help your church navigate change and channel conflict into a stronger sense of mission and community. Lay leaders, pastors and church staff will be empowered by creative, practical strategies to establish appropriate congregational behavior, offer non-anxious leadership and foster community discussion and discernment.
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"A slave runs away from his master. A mutual friend steps in to mediate between the two of them. Can there be healing in such a scarred relationship? In the face of such a daunting breach, is reconciliation (not to what was, but to what God designed) even possible? This is the situation faced in the book of Philemon. From this short New Testament letter, pastor and author Dhati Lewis (Among Wolves) unpacks key principles that Paul applied to being...
20) Beauty in crisis
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A collaborative work sermons and art created during the COVID-19 pandemic.