How to Handle Conflict When it Comes

This week we end our theme for September on healing and restoration. We have talked about wholeness, forgiveness, and moving forward from past hurts. Now we turn to the final theme: healing relationships. Our guide is Romans 12:18: “If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.” Paul’s words carry both hope and honesty. The call is to live at peace, but Paul knows peace is not always possible. Reconciliation takes two people. Yet he reminds us of what we can control: our own part. We cannot force peace, but we can pursue it. Think of Paul and Barnabas. Their sharp disagreement in Acts…

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How to Worship God Through Your Work

Can work be worship? The Apostle Paul thought so. In Colossians 3:23–24, he urges believers to work “with all your heart, as working for the Lord… It is the Lord Christ you are serving.” Writing to bondservants (slaves) in a Roman household, Paul reframes even the most ordinary labor as a sacred act because of its orientation toward God. This week on Biblical Wisdom for Flourishing, we explore how to integrate faith and work so that the office, classroom, kitchen, or construction site becomes a place of worship. You could say that this is about collapsing the false divide between “sacred” and “secular” and embracing work as a “liturgy in…

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