By Ken Sande, in his book The Peacemaker, groups all our different responses to conflict into the categories of peace-faking, peace-breaking, and peace-making. These are helpful ways to analyse your own contributions to the lack of peace in your relationships. Faking peace includes responses like acting as though everything is fine, blaming others
Paving the Path to Peace
Divisive, arrogant, scornful, conceited, spiteful, thoughtless, vindictive are all descriptions of the ungodly. In contrast, the Proverbs of the New Testament, Romans 12, calls Christians to be those characterised by harmony and peace. This is no clearer stated than in Romans 12:16-18 Live in harmony with one another.Do not be
Blessed Are the Peacemakers
Peace is a delicate thing. It is like balancing a fragile object on a rounded ledge with a cliff on each side. With just the smallest amount of indiscretion, a moment of peace can be broken and fall off the cliff from either side. Making peace, and then keeping it,
The Prayer of a Peace-Maker
Psalm 120 laments the difficulty of being a peace-maker in a world that loves war, trouble, oppression, deceit, and disorder. But Psalm 120 also offers counsel of a typical practical nature. Psalm 120:1 When suffering in a violent and unjust situation, call out to God, for He always answers. Psalm
Being a Peace Maker Among One Another
Many times, the greatest reason for uselessness in church ministry is personal conflict. I don’t like you, you don’t like something I did, so you sit on this side, I sit on that side, and if you come to the church picnic, then I won’t come, and if you have