The Peacemaking Church: God uses conflict to reveal our idols.

This past week in ABF we studied the third lesson in a series of eight on resolving conflict. The key principle stated was God uses conflict to reveal our idols taken primarily from James 4. What was most revealing about the lesson was the progression of idolatry according to James 4.1-3. I desire. - “From whence come wars [...]

2 Minute Video on Conflict as an Opportunity

5 Minute Challenge

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Charles Spurgeon Documentary

Hardly a Sunday goes by when a pastor doesn’t use a quote from this pastor-preacher, Charles Spurgeon. If you’ve often heard Spurgeon quoted, but don’t know much about his life watch this:

Charles & Marcia Strong – Philippines

As you may know Chuck and Marcia S. are serving for the next two weeks in the Philippines with one of our missionaries, Tim & Laura Berrey. Here’s an update about their trip so far: Our trip began quite eventful. After having boarded our plane and while proceeding over Canada to about the western border [...]

The Peacemaking Church: Living at peace is a key to our Christian witness.

This past Sunday we walked through our second lesson on biblical conflict resolution. The lesson was titled: Living at Peace. Here’s a quick review of the lesson to help you as you seek to live these truths out this week. Three dimensions of peace: Peace with God (Col 1.19-20) Peace with others – unity (Rom [...]

Love Your Neighbor Week

Today is the beginning of what we call Love Your Neighbor Week. I hope you’ll take time to invest in your God-given relationships this week of those who live closest to you or whom you interact with on a daily basis. Here are a few ideas: Ideas for Children   Bake goods for a fire [...]

The Peacemaking Church: Conflict is an Opportunity

If you missed last week’s Adult Bible Fellowship lesson on The Peacemaking Church here are some of the principles that we covered. The Four G’s: A God-centered response to conflict Glorify God (1 Cor 10.31) Get the log out of your eye (Matt 7.5) Gently restore (Gal 6.1) Go and be reconciled (Matt 5.24) The Foundational [...]