This would be the most dramatic shift in the federal workforcesince the 1880s, when reformers ended the partisan "spoils system," which led to incompetence, graft and corruption within federal agencies. "Our goal is to assemble an army of aligned, vetted, trained and prep...
5:23-24). The same is true for a man who divorces unbiblically (1 Cor. 7:11). The only time such a person could remarry another is if the former spouse remarries, proves to be an unbeliever, or dies, in which cases reconciliation would no longer be possible. The Bible also gives...
The fact that confrontation is for the purpose of reconciliation suggests that it may not happen immediately after the offense has occurred. When I’ve been deeply hurt by someone, I’m usually apt to respond in anger. Even if my confrontation is clear, my motivation for confronting is not ...
Peacemaking is active work, hard work, frustrating work. It is not the convenient thing. “Blessed are the blessed,” is what we’d like to believe, not “blessed are those who expend their lives in the interest of reconciliation and shalom.” This challenge is da...
Identify what's stealing trust and vulnerability from your relationships so you can believe there is still good ahead. Disempower the triggers hijacking your emotions by embracing the two necessary parts of forgiveness. Look for additional biblically based resources and devotionals from Lysa: I Want...
reconciliation / living together again. And by the way, your final paragraph is again putting the onus on the victim – if there has been authentic change – the perpetrator will seek her – and even then – she may have been so terrorized it is not in the best interests of her health...
6–14) to the WCC Amsterdam Assembly, in which he offered a biblically informed critique of capitalist society, that the Assembly declined to follow the siren voice of an anti-Communism that would have uncritically aligned the Christian Churches with “bourgeois capitalism” during the Cold War....