One characteristic of healthy relationships is effective communication. However, communication breakdowns are often left undetected until conflicts arise. Because it’s often hard to understand the root causes of conflict, this booklet focuses on how life experiences shape communication patterns and personal conflict style.
Creation
As Christians, we don’t believe that our universe is a mindless cosmic machine, driven solely by complex laws of physics. We don’t believe that the richness of life on Earth is a happy accident of chemistry and evolution. We don’t believe that our short life on this world is all that there is. Instead, as Christians, we believe that the universe is the work of a kind and loving creator God. Read this booklet to discover more of the complex beauty of creation and our response to care for what God has entrusted to us.
Caring for Creation: Home and Community
‘Every little element that I see, and I touch, and I hear, and I feel, is all part of God’s creation. In what I do in my yard, I care for God’s creation.
Journey Through Addiction
Addiction may be our greatest mental, physical, financial and spiritual challenge. When you cannot find self-control, you cannot experience the joy-filled life you want.
Where’s God in all of this?
Suffering comes in so many forms, but they all drive us back to that age-old question, ‘Where’s God in All of This?’
There’s More to Anger Than Getting Mad
Learn productive ways to express your anger, what to say, and how to say it – and what to do when your best efforts at good communication fail.
Chronic Pain
Sometimes we face unexpected challenges, we are dealt a hand we just don’t see coming.
Battles with the Bottle
You never planned for the battles alcohol introduced into your life.
Where is my job?
‘You’re fired!’ These are not the words you want to hear – ever!
Are you struggling with an uncertain future due to job insecurity?
Reconciling Family Conflict
‘I said, that’s it. Isn’t it. You always get your way. And I walked out. I was really great. Wasn’t I? Here am I supposed to be teaching reconciliation, and you know, this is, this is humanity at its best. Isn’t it? So, uh, well maybe it’s at its worst.’