Healing Contentious Relationships
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Overcoming the Power of Pride and Strife
Written by Thomas Parr
Have you noticed how easily strife causes your relationships to fall apart? Are you looking for a solution? In Healing Contentious Relationships, Thomas Parr exposes the way pride, covetousness, and unbelief cause us to mistreat others and how God grants grace in Christ to resolve such tension. Here is a book for war-weary souls in need of the Spirit of peace.
Table of Contents:
- The Cause and Pattern of Strife
- Confronted as Sinners
- God's Grace--The Main Solution to Sin and Strife
- Coming to God in Humble Repentance
- Affliction and Humble Sorrow
- Another Expression of Pride--Subtly Judging God
- Another Expression of Pride--A Self-Sufficient Spirit
Paperback, 128 pages, notes, questions for reflection and discussion
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