Ten Questions to Ask Yourself Before Confronting a Brother or Sister in Christ

Ten Questions to Ask Yourself Before Confronting a Brother or Sister in Christ – “Christian love requires that we must at times confront one another about sin patterns that hinder growth toward spiritual fruitfulness and maturity.”

Overcoming Disagreement For God’s Glory

Overcoming Disagreement For God’s Glory – “Even our very best plans often meet with significant snags. Many variables can conspire to derail our plans, but one in particular often proves a great help or hindrance in our efforts: people. Planning would be so easy if it weren’t for other people with other opinions!”

Involving Ourselves in Every Controversy?

Involving Ourselves in Every Controversy? – “Part of the pernicious underbelly of the internet is that many allow themselves to be drawn into controversies about which they have no need to involve themselves.”

7 Ways to Fight Poorly

7 Ways to Fight Poorly – “If you have breath, you have conflict. And it’s not going to go away.”

Ten Diagnostic Questions for the Potential Ideologue

Ten Diagnostic Questions for the Potential Ideologue – There are some good guidelines here that each of us should consider in our online or offline discussions.

The Wisdom of Avoiding Strife

The Wisdom of Avoiding Strife – “Conflict is hard. By ‘conflict,’ I’m referring not to everyday disagreements, but to the sort of disagreements that look like knock-down, drag-em-out fights, that turn people into enemies of one another. The book of Proverbs refers to such situations as ‘strife.'”

How Should We Handle Outrage?

How Should We Handle Outrage? – “This is a difficult time. Evil is called good, while good is called evil. Objective truth is disdained. Feelings are divinized. God is mocked.” 

 

On Twirling Spears

On Twirling Spears – “You know how it is: that argument you have as you look in the mirror brushing your teeth, or shaving… the argument where you are rehearsing just what you would like to say to that person at work, or at church, or in the next room!… the argument you always win, but actually will never say.”

Ten Things I Have Learned About Conflict

Ten Things I Have Learned About Conflict – Cory Ishida: “When the pandemic began in 2020, I was concerned about my grandchildren’s spiritual, mental, and emotional well-being because they were sequestered at home. I felt led by the Lord to write daily devotionals for them.” Here’s one of them.

Do You Love Controversy?

Do You Love Controversy? – “Love is the identifier that the listening and watching world should know us by. Yet sadly, another love has infiltrated and started to define the church of Jesus Christ: the love of controversy.”

‘To an Unknown God’: How Christians Can Press Into Thorny and Divisive Issues Today

‘To an Unknown God’: How Christians Can Press Into Thorny and Divisive Issues Today – “Let me share several ways Christians can engage well with the hard issues of today.”

Should Gospel Disagreements End a Friendship?

Should Gospel Disagreements End a Friendship? – “Let’s step back first for just a moment and get the bigger picture of the way the New Testament deals with those who claim to be Christian and have abandoned things essential to the Christian faith.”

End of Days for the End of Conflict

End of Days for the End of Conflict – “What can the unity we see around the throne teach us about conflict resolution? What can the end of days teach us about the end of interpersonal conflict?”

15 Resolves for Maintaining Spiritual Balance in Severe Interpersonal Conflicts

15 Resolves for Maintaining Spiritual Balance in Severe Interpersonal Conflicts – “Here are fifteen areas of obedience that will bring personal peace, assure that God’s reputation is honored in our lives, and improve dramatically the possibility for reconciliation.”