Confronting Conflict with the Gospel #11: Are You Second? Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky as you hold firmly to the word of life. And then I will be able to boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain. But even if I am being...
Confronting Conflict with the Gospel #10: Do You See Yourself? Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to...
Confronting Conflict with the Gospel #9: Do You Think Like Jesus? In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he...
Confronting Conflict with the Gospel #8: Do You Have to Win? Therefore, if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being...
Confronting Conflict with the Gospel 7: The Community of Suffering This is a sign to them that they will be destroyed, but that you will be saved—and that by God. For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for...
Confronting Conflict with the Gospel #6: Shield Wall or Just a Wall? Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving...
