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Pastor Mark Fuller When you're not sure what God's will is; listen to the world's counsel, then do the opposite. Matthew 5:9-10 (NLT) - Peacemaking is hard, unappreciated, and often seemingly unproductive work. But Jesus says it is what identifies us as God's kids. Keys to Peacemaking: - Be at Peace with God and Yourself - Job 22:21 (NLT) - Listen More Than You Talk - James 1:19 (NLT) - It's hard to be a good listener because of how emotionally charged issues have become. We feel threatened when we encounter opposing views or ways of thinking that we don't agree with. By holding space for someone else's ideas, even when they differ from your own, you'll begin building bridges to the path of peace rather than burning them down. - Be Genuinely Interested In Other People - Philippians 2:4 (NLT) - Become interested in other people's ideas, even ideas you strongly disagree with. Seek to understand their positions so well that you can repeat them concisely and convincingly. You don't have to agree with people for them to feel heard. The peacemaker understands this and uses it to help them build relationships and trust. - Don't Be Afraid of Conflict - Conflict is not a bad thing. Responding to conflict in the right way can produce great unity. When we try to avoid conflict at all costs, we only exacerbate the problem. So many conflicts are caused by unsuccessful attempts at preventing conflict. Conflict is not an obstacle to peace, it's the wrong kind of conflict that can lead to damaged relationships. - Ephesians 4:14-15 (NLT) - If you want to be a peacemaker, you must be willing to state your position clearly and unambiguously and allow others to do the same. - Even if you endure the discomfort from conflict in the short term, you can ultimately create conditions that will lay the foundation for peace. - Respond Rather Than React - When we're reactive, we're in a state of constant fight or flight mode. Responding means creating the space within ourselves that removes the false immediacy of needing to say or do something right now. When we decide how to respond, we choose how we want to show up in the world in a way that is empowering and builds up everyone involved. - Stay Humble and Teachable - James 4:6 (NLT) - Peacemaking is hard work. You will always find opportunities to mess up. And others will too. Knowing this ahead of time can allow you to be more understanding and forgiving when something goes wrong. - Matthew 5:10 (NLT) - Jesus knew that in this fallen world, persecution would be the response when we work to make peace. This fallen world system often crucifies peacemakers. - If you've felt wronged, stepped on, or worse, don't wait for others to apologize. Choose an attitude of preemptive forgiveness. Forgive others. Forgive yourself. Ask for forgiveness. We all need constant and copious amounts of God's grace. The good news is, that it is in abundant supply because of Christ's sacrifice on our behalf. - Be at Peace with God and Yourself - Moved from resignation, to acceptance, and now beginning to discover the peace that from embracing this season. That is when the blessing came, and I am discovering fruitfulness in this challenging season. - Job 22:21 (NLT) - Submitting to God means to surrender. It's one of our main values here at the Naz. It means surrendering your rights and control over your life. - The world identifies surrender with words like defeat, failure, and bondage. But this is the amazing reality about Jesus' upside-down kingdom. - When you surrender to Him, you discover just the opposite: victory, purpose, and freedom. I'm talking about a glad surrender, not a resignation type of surrender. It is a confident “embracing" of His permissive will, whatever it brings because you are convinced of His goodness and love. That's the place of real peace. And that's the place of real blessing.

Welcome to the first episode of our new series COUPLES THERAPY.In these monthly episodes, you'll hear myself and my husband, Chris talk about the topics you send us to discuss, and answer any questions you may have.This months episode, was all about conflict.Conflict ResolutionAnalysing Your ConflictDo's and Don'ts When It Comes To ConflictHow To Approach Defensiveness (and Stop Being Defensive)How We Approach Conflict (In All Phases of Our Relationship)If you loved this episode, be sure to let me know over on Instagram @helenderbs and send in your topic requests and we will be sure to cover them each month.Until next time, have an amazing day, week or month.Helen and Chris x

Corey Gil-Shuster is a Jewish Canadian YouTuber who has lived in Israel for the past 25 years. His videos consist of him going around and asking questions of both Israelis and Palestinians, then posting their unvarnished takes on controversial and historical topics. He has a somewhat nuanced take on the long-running regional conflict. We talked to him LIVE on the Killstream for a little over an hour. We covered life in Israel, The Gaza Conflict, Conflict Resolution, and much more. Taken from this LIVE Killstream on Rumble:https://rumble.com/v3xlk3j-killstream-corey-gil-shuster-live-from-israel-black-friday-bonanza.htmlCorey Gil-Shuster on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@CoreyGilShusterAskProject ⭐MAIN TTS⭐https://powerchat.live/theralphretort⭐CHECKYA/STRIPE⭐https://checkya.com/killstream/payme⭐2nd TTS⭐https://killstream.live/tip⭐CASH APP⭐$sunsetsquad⭐ENTROPY SUPER CHAT⭐https://killstream.live/entropyBUY ME A COFFEE!https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theralphretort⭐TELEGRAM⭐https://t.me/theralphretort✅Merch:https://killstream.live/shop✅Extended Support Info, Crypto, & Social Media:https://killstream.live/info✅Apple Podcast Site:https://apple.co/2KSWG8z Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we talk about the Gaza Strip, the Yom Kippur War, and Egypt.We also discuss 9/11, charged topics, and sneak-attacks.Recommended Book: Pinpoint by Greg MilnerTranscriptIn 1972, the Egyptian military started building up its offense-capable forces, buying things like MiG fighter jets and T-62 tanks from the Soviet Union, while also gutting its swathe of generals—many of whom attained the rank for political, not experiential reasons—replacing them with more capable versions of the same.This buildup and swap-out of leadership was being conducted in the lead-up to an invasion of Israel, with the intention of reclaiming territory that Egypt lost during the Six-Day War in 1967: a conflict that saw Egypt, Syria, and Jordan all going to war with Israel, mostly because of the simmering bad relations Israel had had with all its Arab neighbors since the First Arab-Israeli War, which ended in 1949, but the catalyst for that conflict was Egypt threatening to close the Suez Canal and Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping; something that would be devastating to Israel's economy, and which the Israeli government had previously said would serve as a casus belli—a justification for war—and which was already the casus belli for the aforementioned First Arab-Israeli War.So the same general ingredients that led to the First Arab-Israeli War in the mid-20th century were in place again in the late-60s: strained relations between Israel and its neighbors, one of those neighbors threatening to clobber the Israeli economy by denying them the use of the Suez Canal and Straits of Tiran for shipping exports, and though the second time around the Egyptian military was pulled back into a defensive position after announcing that ban on Israeli shipping using these water channels, the Israeli military preemptively struck Egyptian forces and launched a ground offensive into Egypt that ended less than a week later. This conflict left tens of thousands of Arab soldiers from these three countries dead, while Israel only suffered about a thousand fatalities. The Egyptian, Syrian, and Jordanian governments gave up territory to Israel as part of the ceasefire following this relatively brief war, and the territory Egypt gave up—the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip, which it had been occupying, directly informed that 1972 buildup of Egyptian forces and recalibration of their military leadership.Throughout that buildup and booting of generals, though, the Egyptian government tried to get Israel to accept a deal that would involve them giving the Sinai Peninsula back to Egypt in exchange for the Egyptian government formally recognizing Israel's rights as an independent state—something none of its Arab neighbors were willing to do, which perhaps understandably had been an ongoing source of tension in the region.Everyone, including Israel's most powerful ally, the US, were keen on this agreement, but the Israeli government said no, as the deal wouldn't guarantee their protection from Egypt in the future.This pissed off a lot of those allies, and the Egyptian government continued to float the idea right up to the moment they attacked Israel in 1973—an attack that was anticipated by essentially everyone, including the Israeli government, because it had become well-understood that the Egyptian government, for reasons both economic and governmental, wouldn't really be able to survive as an independent state without the Sinai territory that was now under Israel's control.Egypt conducted a bunch of military exercises between May and August of that year, which is why similar exercises, right next to the Suez Canal in late September, were ignored by many in the Israeli establishment as just more exercises, nothing to worry about. And tens of thousands of the soldiers participating in those exercises were given permission to make their pilgrimage to Mecca a few days before the attack, which reinforced the idea that this was just more posturing on the part of Egypt—and that proved convincing, even though the Israelis received eleven warnings of an impending attack from well-placed sources.The Israeli government finally scrambled to call up reservists a handful of hours before Egypt moved in, though, and despite being in the position to make a preemptive strike, they were dissuaded from doing so by US leadership, which told them they should do everything they could to avoid being the one to start a new war in the Middle East, also saying that if they did start something, they wouldn't receive any support from the US; the Soviet Union, for their part, made similar efforts to dissuade the Egyptians from starting a new conflict, but to no avail.What became known, in Israel at least, as the Yom Kippur War, because it began on that holy Jewish holiday, ultimately lasted just shy of three weeks; it saw successful Israeli counterattacks into Syria and Egypt, eventually led to the beginnings of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, and importantly, led to the 1978 return of the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt as a consequence of the Camp David Accords, which also led to the 1979 Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty—which included Egypt's acknowledgment of Israel as a legitimate nation that should be allowed to exist.One defining trait of the Yom Kippur War, though, which has remained locked into the collective psyche of the Israeli military establishment in the decades since, was the surprise-attack nature of the conflict, and how Egypt, alongside Syria and Jordan, all hit Israel at a moment in which they weren't fully prepared, and when they had many reasons to believe an attack wouldn't be forthcoming.What I'd like to talk about today is a more recent attack on Israel that many are comparing to the outset of Yom Kippur war, what we know so far about the conflict and the intentions of those involved, and what might happen next.—This is an incredibly fast-moving and emotion-evoking story, so there's a very good chance some component of what I'm about to tell you will have changed before this episode goes live, and that a lot of conversation about it, in personal and broadcast contexts, will be fraught.But that said, what we seem to know at the moment is this:Early on the morning of October 7, 2023, Hamas launched a sneak-attack against Israel.Hamas, which is more formally called the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas is an acronym for that name in Arabic, is an organization that governs the Gaza Strip, and has since 2007, when they took control of the region, capturing it, basically, following a five-day conflict with the Palestinian National Liberation Movement, or Fatah—there were elections in the area before that, but since then it's mostly just been Hamas running things, and they have influence in the West Bank—another area within Israel designated for Palestinians, though separated from Gaza by Israeli cities and security infrastructure—as well.This sneak-attack was, by all indications, almost entirely unexpected and came as a surprise to Israel's military complex, alongside that of allied nations, like the US and European countries; there have been murmurings, as tends to be the case after these sorts of attacks, that some people did know or suspect what was about to happen, it's just that those suspicions were't taken as seriously as they could have, and in retrospect, should have, been. But this attack caught the Israeli government more or less completely unprepared, and it was fairly complex, involving attacks from the land, the sea, and the air, the latter accomplished using thousands of rockets fired within hours of each other, but also motorized paraglider that allowed fighters to quickly get behind defensive lines, allowing them to secure bases and checkpoints, which in turn allowed more heavily armed commando units to break through the usually well-defended walls and fences guarded by Israeli soldiers, and to then sweep through neighboring areas, killing and capturing as they went.The killing and capturing was quite brutal: this wasn't a firefight between soldiers, it was largely a wave of well-prepared Hamas fighters rolling through a relatively small number of soldiers, and then butchering, torturing, raping, and kidnapping civilians of all ages. Current estimates suggest that Hamas militants have killed more than 1,300 people, so far, including people of many different nationalities, but mostly Israeli citizens, and they've wounded several thousand more—primarily during this initial, stealthy attack, which some Israeli higher-ups have called their country's 9/11, because of how out of nowhere it seemed, and how many civilian lives were claimed.Israel's government officially declared war on Hamas the following day, and have since killed nearly 3,000 people, and wounded at least 9,600 more, according to the Gaza Health Ministry—most of those deaths and injuries the consequence of Israeli counterstrikes, which have until now mostly been in the shape of missiles fired into Gaza.That "until now" caveat is important, as, as of the day I'm recording this, the day before this episode goes live, the Israeli government has indicated it intends to invade Gaza, beginning in the more-populated northern portion of the Strip, and it reinforced this intention by telling Palestinians in Gaza, via the UN, that they had 24 hours to evacuate to the southern portion of the Strip. Such an evacuation is easier said than done, though, as more than 1.1 million people live in the area the Israelis were suggesting people should leave, or else, so the Israeli government has gotten pushback from international organizations, as there's no way that many people can safely move that far in that short a period of time, which means Israel risks losing the moral high ground, seeming not to care what happens to everyday Palestinian civilians, despite gesturing at giving them the option of getting out of harm's way before the hammer comes down, Israeli soldiers flooding into the area intent on hunting down Hamas' leadership and collapsing every last bit of their military infrastructure.And that dynamic, of Israel being just incredibly overpowered compared to Hamas, and using that power against everyday Palestinian civilians, is part of why some outside analysts have suggested the 9/11 comparison is apt; not just because of how the attack happened and who the primary victims were, but because Israel's response, so far at least, has been similar to that of the United States following 9/11: namely, a lot of international support wavers because, back in the day, the US government scrambled to find someone to blame and ended up hurting a lot of innocent people alongside those who were substantially less innocent, and because now, Israel might be readying itself to do the same, everyone feeling really bad for them and what they have suffered, but increasingly wondering if the victim might be setting themselves up to become an even greater victimizer—lashing out as a result of that pain and horror and desperate need to feel some semblance of security and safety again.As was the case back in 2001, there are many valid perspectives on this, and folks around the world have responded to what's happening in Israel and Gaza in a variety of ways.Some people, those on what we might call the pro-Israeli side, have argued that Israel was attacked, out of nowhere, a huge number of civilians were killed, other civilians—something like 200 of them—were taken hostage, and this is very not okay, and Israel is well within its rights to hit back at those who hit them first, and to do what they need to do to ensure those who did the initial hitting are not in a position to do so again in the future, even if that means some innocent people are caught in the crossfire.Others, those on what we might call the pro-Palestine side, have argued that millions of Palestinians have been essentially kept in an open-air prison for almost two decades, and thus it's understandable that they might do whatever they can—or support organizations that will do whatever they can—to hit back at the force, the Israeli government, that came in and took their land, locked them up, and who have trampled their human rights in all sorts of internationally acknowledged ways.It's also worth noting here that there are plenty of Palestinians who don't like Hamas, and/or who don't agree with what they did in this instance, or with other attacks they've made against other Palestinian groups and Israelis over the years; there are likewise plenty of Israelis who don't agree with the militarization that has occurred under the current, and other recent Israeli administrations.And it's possible, I think, to acknowledge that it's civilians on both sides that are suffering the most from these attacks, recent and historical, while those at the top often use them as an excuse to continue inciting and justifying violence of all sorts, while reinforcing their own hold and garnering more power for themselves—and can be true of attacks that look a lot like terrorism, and those that are easier to justify in the eyes of the international community.So there are people on all sides of this, there are uncomfortable discussions happening all around the world, centering on this subject, but the concrete reality on the ground is that Hamas scored a brutal military strike against the much larger and more powerful Israel, Israel is now leveraging that power to hit the residents of the Gaza Strip, including Hamas, hard, and we're all waiting to see how far this will go, and what the broader consequences will be.Because as horrible as that initial attack was, and as horrible as Israel's counterattack has been, the real fear for many is that this conflict will expand to encompass more players, regional and international.The most likely entrants would be those that have been involved in previous attacks against Israel, like Egypt and Lebanon and Syria, and while Egypt seems not keen on the idea right now, mostly trying to play peacemaker and trying to keep a flood of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from fleeing Gaza into their territory, Lebanon has been a bit more fuzzy on the matter: there have been reports of mortar attacks across the border, and some reporters have suggested that the level of attacks are higher than usual, maybe indicating that Hezbollah, which is a major political and military force in Lebanon, could get directly involved in the conflict, seeing it as an opportunity to hit Israel when they're wounded and when their forces and attentions are divided—though it could also be a matter of Hezbollah wanting to pull some of Israel's resources north, which would make their work in Gaza a lot more cumbersome. That would potentially be doubly-bad, too, because Hezbollah is backed by Iran, which has made no secret of its desire to see Israel wiped off the map, and which is the major force many people on the Israeli side, and on the side of simply not wanting to see the war expand, are worried might decide to get involved, as that would mean a whole nationstate getting its country-scale military involved in the fight, which would substantially complicate things, not to mention seriously raising the potential of a huge body count and a spiral into WWIII. The Iranian government has said it won't engage militarily with Israel unless Israelis attack them, so that concern would seem to be less pressing at the moment, though it's hard to predict, early on in a conflict, how such statements will age as realities on the ground change, and Iranian officials have made other statements that suggest they're keeping their options open.There are more distant concerns that the US or Russia or China might get involved, and it seems unlikely that any of those bigger, global players would step in directly at this point, though a huge number of countries have announced military and humanitarian support for Israel, and a few have done the same for the Palestinians, as well; so that's better in some ways, as it reduces the chances of those bigger players coming into direct conflict with each other, but less-good in the sense that it raises the possibility of this turning into a proxy conflict, which could then spin-up into something pretty big, for better and for worse, if things at some point escalate.Looking further afield, there are concerns within Ukraine that this conflict could pull attention and resources away from Kyiv, redistributing them to Israel, or maybe even just wearing people out on the idea of throwing resources at international conflicts—democratic support for such aid drying up as people start to wonder how much money will be spent and how many of these things we'll see popping up in the coming years. We're not far enough along to know if that's likely to be the case or not, but it's enough of a concern that Ukrainian President Zelensky has been going out of his way to announce support for Israel, even asking to visit the country, personally, in order to stay front of mind and possibly to build a connection in the eyes of the world between the two conflicts.One other big development is a pause on efforts by the Israeli and Saudi governments to normalize their relations with each other; this has been a huge, long-term diplomatic effort that could help the Middle East stabilize a bit, and could help the region better interconnect economically and diplomatically, but the Saudi government said they were back-burnering the agreement while Israel is attacking Gaza, and it's anyone's guess as to whether they'll start that back up, and if so, when.Something else we don't know is Hamas's motive for this attack. Some speculate that it might be as simple as wanting to hurt a longtime enemy, while others have suggested it might be the lead-in to some other kind of attack: an attritional, weakening blow meant to soften Israel up for an invasion from the north, or an attack from Iran. Still others contend that it was probably a means of derailing the aforementioned normalizing of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia—something Hamas would be keen to prevent, and which they may have predicted this sort of attack and Israel's inevitable response to it, would hamstring.Wilder speculations, for which there's no evidence, as far as I'm aware, suggests that this might be a five-dimensional chess ploy by Russian President Putin, since Putin met with Hamas leaders who traveled to Moscow for the visit in March of 2023, and the group's politburo leader visited Moscow again in early September. The theory is that Putin wanted to pull international attention and support away from Ukraine, while also punishing Israel for supporting Ukraine, and he did so by either supporting Hamas directly, or via Russia's ally, Iran—and while it has been confirmed that Iran helped Hamas prepare for this attack, there's no confirmation that Russia had anything to do with it; this, and several other pieces of evidence pointing in this direction, so far at least, are all circumstantial.This gestures at the broader problem right now, though, of trying to understand and contextualize something so horrific, because lacking that deeper understanding, it's difficult to know what will help, what will make things better in a region in which all the variables seem to be set up in such a way that things just get worse and more volatile over time, rather than the opposite, and what will be the consequences of the, as of the day I'm recording this, ongoing counterattack by Israel, and the exploding humanitarian situation that's arising in Gaza as a consequence of that counterattack.Show Notes* https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/how-israel-was-duped-hamas-planned-devastating-assault-2023-10-08/* https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1711027540536471994* https://www.vox.com/world-politics/23910641/israel-hamas-war-gaza-palestine-explainer* Depressing Take on the Conflict* Conflict update* https://www.nytimes.com/news-event/israel-hamas-gaza* https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/israel-hamas-war-gaza-strip/* https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/how-israel-was-duped-hamas-planned-devastating-assault-2023-10-08/* https://www.axios.com/2023/10/11/zelensky-israel-hamas-war-gaza-visit-netanyahu* https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2023/10/13/palestinians-flee-their-homes-towards-southern-gaza-after-israeli-order* https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-hamas-war-refugees-6cf0ff04e513ecec12cf9152656ac1b6* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur_War* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bank* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_enclaves* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_National_Authority* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatah%E2%80%93Hamas_conflict* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas This is a public episode. 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Money Quote: "I go back to the Gospels a lot . . .the more I encounter Jesus in the Gospels I encounter someone who is certainly not afraid of conflict and not afraid of tension because He saw it as an opportunity for growth." --Kristin Bird Episode Summary: Deacon Keith, Executive Director of M3 Ministries, Kristin Bird, Executive Director of Burning Hearts Disciples, and Rachel Espinoza, Editor and Liturgical Training Consultant with LTP, explore the reality of conflict within parish life and discuss ways to navigate through it and strategies for creating an environment for healthy, instructive conflict. Key Topics: Catchup (0:56) Vatican Website Hacked (6:55) Introduction to the Topic of Conflict (11:30) Conflict in Parish Life  (13:13) Conflict as Misalignment of Expectations (15:17) Healthy vs Unhealthy Conflict (16:54) Examples of Healthy Conflict (29:40) Self Knowledge & Team Awareness as Tools for Healthy Conflict (39:42) Creating Environments for Healthy Conflict (50:06) Need to Talk? If you have an ongoing conflict at your parish that you would like to talk to us about, or if you have questions about evangelization or parish renewal, just reach out to us: Contact Deacon Keith Contact Kristin Contact Rachel Resources Mentioned** Clifton Strength Finders 5 Dysfunctions of a Team (Video) Dare to Lead by Brene Brown Radical Candor by Kim Scott Next Steps Join the M3 Community http://m3catholic.com/m3-community-signup/ Explore The Missionary Leadership Academy https://missionaryleadershipacademy.com **As an Amazon Associate, I may earn money from qualifying purchases and receive commissions for Amazon purchases made through links in this post.

In this week's episode of How I Built My Tribe, we continue our discussion about the upcoming “Lead at Every Level” workshop with Jodi Evans, Founder and CEO of Revolutionary Tribes. In our previous episode about the workshop, we focused on how to lead ourselves. And this week, we're taking a deep dive into how to lead with peers, how to align with peers, how to build frameworks for better results, better communication and conflict handling, and more. [00:41] Commitment to the Team – The realization that you may not have chosen your team, but you chose to be on the team is the first of the five key ideas Jodi shares today about leading with peers. [03:20] Alignment – Jodi shares with us why aligning with your peers in the executive can get your organization more momentum. [05:08] Intentions – We talk about how executive teams can define their intentions as a tribe through strategic planning and how it'll benefit the organization. [06:19] Knowing Who Owns What – One of the most crucial conversations an executive team can have is about who owns and who's responsible for what aspects of the organization. Jodi shares with us how to approach that conversation. [11:20] Communication for Conflict – Conflict and differences of opinion are natural occurrences in any organization. We dive into how to create a framework that allows teams to have difficult conversations smoothly. [15:40] Relying on Results – Jodi shares her thoughts on how aligning with results and relying on results shape an organization.   Resources Connect with Melissa and Jodi: LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/melissa-hall-b0909865/ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jodi-evans-089297100/ Mentioned in the episode: Two-Day Executive Dental Leadership Intensive to Accelerate NEXT LEVEL growth for YOU and YOUR TRIBE: leaders.dental Lead at Every Level – You revtribes.libsyn.com/lead-at-every-level-you

Make peace with everyone and handle situations accordingly. This is a challenge that many people battle with daily but we must practice and exercise Christ's love daily with people. No place for resentment, unforgivable and revenge. Love your neighbor as you love yourself. Peace.

Our lives are shaped by conflict: we fight with our families and friends, we struggle to get along with difficult coworkers, and we feel the strain of division and disagreement in our churches. Some enjoy conflict and others try to avoid it at all costs. What are some Biblical ways to address inevitable conflict in our lives? Let's discover together what it means to be faithful at home, work, and church with conflict. The early church was full of conflict and Paul addresses this in a number of ways but differences do not have to mean division. Differences can actually be our greatest strength as we connect with different people and share the love of Christ with them. As Christians we live in the reality of the unity that Christ has made and in him we should all strive to reconcile to one another.   Luke 22:24-27 (ESV)A dispute also arose among them, as to which of them was to be regarded as the greatest. And he said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them, and those in authority over them are called benefactors. But not so with you. Rather, let the greatest among you become as the youngest, and the leader as one who serves. For who is the greater, one who reclines at table or one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines at table? But I am among you as the one who serves.2 Corinthians 5:16-21 (ESV)From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Our lives are shaped by conflict: we fight with our families and friends, we struggle to get along with difficult coworkers, and we feel the strain of division and disagreement in our churches. Some enjoy conflict and others try to avoid it at all costs. What are some Biblical ways to address inevitable conflict in our lives? Let's discover together what it means to be faithful at home, work, and church with conflict. Sometimes conflicts happen. Who is greater…the best employee … the worst? As followers of Christ we give a glimpse into the new creation and are called to not fight for attention but to be faithful because following Christ is THE BEST way. John 2:1-11 (ESV)On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples. When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. And he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast.” So they took it. When the master of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now.” This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.Colossians 3:12-17 (ESV)Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Our lives are shaped by conflict: we fight with our families and friends, we struggle to get along with difficult coworkers, and we feel the strain of division and disagreement in our churches. Some enjoy conflict and others try to avoid it at all costs. What are some Biblical ways to address inevitable conflict in our lives? Let's discover together what it means to be faithful at home, work, and church with conflict. Tension among family isn't uncommon. Even Jesus experienced tension. The peace of Christ and the word of Christ gives us a place to root ourselves.  Matthew 5:21-24 (ESV)“You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.' But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!' will be liable to the hell of fire. So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.1 Corinthians 10:23-25; 31-33 (ESV)“All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up. Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor. Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience.So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God, just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.

“Where there is power, there is resistance.” - Michel Foucault Where there is collaboration, there is conflict. So, yes, there is a way out of very conflict. But no, there is no way to live a life without conflict. Let's resolve to learn from this and pursue peace! Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. - Matthew 5:9

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The piece of music we're listening to in the background is called King Arsen Approaches. It's this regal fantasy theme, which I wrote for the audio drama, the LaFresian Chronicles: Arsen. Today, we'll take a very quick look at the behind the scenes of why and how this track was put together. You're listening to How I Make Music, where audio drama composers tell their own stories. My name is John Bartmann, and I'm a music composer from South Africa. And this is a little show called How I Make Music. 1:02 ABOUT So today's show is a little bit different. As you might know, I usually speak to other audio drama composers and then edit my voice out entirely. But to be perfectly honest, I was dropped by a few contributors this week and I had to plug a gap so I'm forced with the happy task of interviewing myself today! I'll keep it shorter than usual, and hopefully I can convey some of my own passion for the music of audio drama. The LaFresian Chronicles: Arsen is a full cast fantasy audio drama written by Nicole Tuttle and edited by Mariah Clawson. A fantasy fairy kingdom where a young orphaned woman seeks to find the truth about her parents death. Writing for the show has put me into the space of cinematic composition. I've had to come up with numerous themes throughout the series, which is now 12 episodes. Themes like this one, which is got an action and tension feel. I do love the team that I work with. Brad Holbrook does the sound design. It just feels like I'm basically a part of something that's really working. That's what I love most about this job.  3:18 SLOWLY MAJESTIC The piece that I wanted to look at today is called King Arsen Approaches. And it's a moment where the Royal Guard is confronting the king, having found the young Fae woman Aurelie. It's all set up the palace, and the scene is described as having 'floors of white marble that you can see your face in.' This really royal atmosphere. It's at this moment, that we meet King Arsen for the first time. And he proceeds down the set of stairs to stand right before Aurelie. To convey this feeling of majesty, I knew it had to be a really slow composition. This is 40 BPM which is way slower than a heartbeat (unless you're Bruce Lee). The percussion does a lot for this piece because they start to like field drums and timpani drums convey a military field. And the king obviously being the head of the kingdom comes with that authority. 5:00 ORCHESTRAL ELEMENTS I have a bias towards strings because I am an amateur violinist. I play violin every day. Paying attention to melody and bow articulation and things that can be done with the software instruments. The library that I use is sort of an entry level library. It's called Native Instruments Symphony Essentials. It's a good starting point for me, I mean, I'm actually fairly new to the world of, orchestral composition. Aside from the percussion and the strings, this piece, King Arsen Approaches also contains a wind section. Here's what the wind and the brass sound like together in this piece. Those little brass flutters are called triple tongues. So next time you watch a movie, and you hear Ba Ba Ba, it's usually like action or something significant happening. And right at the outro here, we've got a beautiful, pretty oboe. Just carrying the final notes of the cadence.  6:22 TENSION I want to play a piece now from a different part of the series, which has a much more tense feel. And I'll include the narration too, so you have a sense of what's going on. We immediately start with the action. If you want to create tension in your cinematic music, use brass swells like this. Another great trick is the use of tritones. Tritones are the flat five interval. Sounds horrible. So if you don't resolve it, then it creates an ongoing sense of tension, a super useful tool. And that's better. Feels like I can relax.  7:18 RAPID FIRE Now, I just want to do a little rapid fire sort of showcase of some of the other music I've written for the show. What we're hearing in the background now is majesty or grandeur. If you listen closely, you'll hear it's actually also the intro theme for the show, which I slowed down. I use the piano mostly when we have diary sequences, very tender moments where she gets to sort of do a monologue, often to her deceased parents. That piano is very soft. It sounds funny to say, but I picture of the bedroom of a young woman where she's got some privacy to sit down and confess her feelings. I turned to the piano again, when I was asked to write a piece for a magical folk story retelling. A scene where the librarian is telling the history of the fairy people. And I got in some typical kind of chord progressions of this type of genre, but very simplistic, very minimal. 9:31 CONFLICT Conflict drives a narrative, and I've had to write a piece which underscores conflict between the characters. Often they're having an argument or there's a sense of betrayal. And that's what this piece is. The challenge with these scenes is that you often have to end it on a positive note, like some kind of resolution has occurred. So you'll notice the change here from a minor sad sound to a more triumphant major sound. And here's one last piece, it's got the silver bell sound almost like a monastery bell. I use that little touch. Just as a way of conveying some of this almost spiritual power that we come to realize that Aurelie has, I wanted to convey a sense of spirituality. And I found that that bell patch worked quite well.  11:05 OUTRO So that's about it for this episode, I'd love to go into way more depth about my own music. But that's not really what the show is about anymore. If you are interested in how this show How I Make Music came to be, the first 58 episodes of it were me doing what I did today, which is just basically deconstructing my own compositions, go to Patreon.com/howimakemusic and you can access the first 58 - the first year of the show, the lost hidden year - for just a couple of dollars. So that would really help me out. Thank you. How I Make Music is created by John Bartmann. For audio experiences that keep people listening, head over to JohnBartmann.com. And now here is King Arsen Approaches in its entirety. This fantasy themed music composition that I wrote for the LaFresian Chronicles: Arsen. Thank you guys so much for tuning in every week. There are about 50 of you at the moment and I love all of you. Keep making your audio dramas and I'll catch you next week Wednesday. SHOW NOTES The Lafresian Chronicles: Arsen podcast https://arsen.pinecast.co/ John Bartmann audio & license-free music asset packs https://johnbartmann.com For a full credit list of music and sound effects from this episode, visit https://howimakemusic.com ABOUT THIS SHOW How I Make Music is a dramatically edited sound experience where behind-the-scenes musicians get to tell their own stories. Every Wednesday, we challenge audio drama composers to break apart a song, soundtrack or composition and get into why and how it was made. Subscribe to How I Make Music https://pod.link/howimakemusic Support How I Make Music https://patreon.com/howimakemusic Visit How I Make Music https://howimakemusic.com How I Make Music is created by John Bartmann. For audio experiences that keep people listening, visit https://johnbartmann.com

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Almost every day in a leader’s life there are multiple opportunities to deal with conflict. One superpower of great leaders is seeing, embracing, and diffusing conflict before it can disrupt the team and derail the progress you are making. Chris and Perry talk today on how to do this.

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Pastor Marty Williams begins this series on Conflict with the reasons why we have it in our lives, and covers some proactive steps we can take to try and eliminate the drama that can arise from it.

Pastor Marty Williams begins this series on Conflict with the reasons why we have it in our lives, and covers some proactive steps we can take to try and eliminate the drama that can arise from it.

Happy Holidays! This week, we take some time off from our usual format and instead answer some off-topic questions about ourselves and the show. Enjoy! Question(s) discussed: 1. I don't know if you've ever answered this but have you and Jeff ever talked about how you guys met? 2. We've heard a lot about video games and podcasts you like. What are your favorites from other general media (TV shows, movies, music, plays, etc.)? 3. Where do you see the podcast this time next year? 4. Do you have any podcast back up plans? Or plans to expand into other genres? 5. Do you think you'll ever find the listener question format doesn't work? 6. Do you have any regrets about decisions made during development of the show and if you could alter them now, would you? 7. Do you find yourselves answering similar questions frequently? 8. Are there any questions you have received which you refuse to answer? And Why? 9. Gabe- Are you and Lisa high school sweet hearts? 10. Tell me about your dog. What kind do you have? How old? Has he/she ever done anything stupid? 11. Jeff- Are you and Skyler gonna get married? 12. I’ve got a really important question here...what are your favorite pizza toppings?? 13. What Hogwarts houses are you both? Contact us: InterPartyConflict@Gmail.com Visit our blog: www.interpartyconflict.com Find us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/InPartyConflict Or on Facebook: www.facebook.com/InterPartyConflict/ And join our Discord: http://bit.ly/interpartydiscord

Download In this episode, Joe interviews Duncan Autrey, a conflict transformation catalyst and educator. He runs a podcast, Fractal Friends, that covers topics of self-similarity across our diversity. During their conversation, Joe and Duncan discuss ways of resolving conflict in our relationships and society. 3 Key Points: Duncan Autrey is a conflict transformation educator, working for peace and cultural change. Conflict happens when one person wants to be heard so much that they stop listening to the other side. It is a product of living in a diverse world. We have more rights than we think we do when facing law enforcement. Support the show Patreon Leave us a review on iTunes Share us with your friends – favorite podcast, etc Join our Facebook group - Psychedelics Today group – Find the others and create community. Navigating Psychedelics Show Notes What is Conflict? Conflict is a product of living in a diverse world Conflict resolution is about how to get different perspectives working together Conflict happens when someone is really passionate about their side of the topic Conflict also happens when one person wants to be heard so much that they stop listening to the other side The ARC of conversation A stands for acknowledge R stands for reflect back C stands for be curious Resolving Conflict Its okay to be certain about your own experiences, but someone might also be certain about their experiences and the key is to find a mutual ground "How do we understand ecological issues better and work with each other to find how to create better conversation around it?" - Joe In a conversation of conflict, the other side may be the antidote to your extreme Interdependent Polarity - each side has something positive and negative, and each side should acknowledge the negative but aim to pull out the positive of the other side Iceers “It's better to find a way to navigate the question, rather than to answer the question” - Duncan In a hierarchy of permanence, laws are really low. Laws come and go 3 ways we resolve conflict over time; power, violence and laws But the interest based model includes everyone and all sides and works through conflict to live in and share the same planet with each other Impressive Resilience in Humans “Shifts happen” People that Duncan works with start thinking to themselves “I'm a good guy facing a bad guy” and the person on the other side of conflict also thinks “I'm a good guy facing a bad guy” Helping guide the people in conflict to just listen to the other person fully is what starts the shift Law Enforcement and Conflict It's important to recognize the difference between the system and the individuals Our whole system of television, movies, everything is all feeding into this There are sociopaths in the world (5% of the population), and they are falling into roles like prison guards and CEO’s Duncan brings up a story where he was in a car with someone who got pulled over, and the car got completely searched He had vitamins on him, and the police assumed it was MDMA, so he was arrested and spent 4 days in jail “This is a place where the people who are on the right side of the law, are being treated like assholes, and where people on the bad side of the law, are on their best behavior” - Duncan This is a systemic issue, where the society says that you are a good person for doing something good, and are a bad person for doing something bad But we shouldn't be defined by what we are ‘caught’ doing, either good or bad People should be able to hold onto their humanity (not be locked up for life) for something like possession of a drug “If we're going to care about our shared humanity and our right for everyone to be here, we have to figure out the path of restoration” - Duncan “Slavery isn't okay, unless someone gets convicted of a crime” Victoria’s Secret has people in prison slavery making lingerie in South Carolina People have to pay off debt from their incarceration, before they get a license, to get a job, that they have to apply to as a criminal Society doesn't make it easy to be human after prison People in grad school with the same amount of debt, have an education, (usually) a job, and have hope for the future Rights When Getting Pulled Over Right to remain silent is real Right to consent for search - you don't have to say yes Law enforcement tries to use the fact that you think you're guilty and will let the search happen You can't be detained without probable cause (4th Amendment) You can be detained long enough for a traffic citation, but not enough to be caught for another crime Smoke smell in the car is probable cause, even in s state where it is legal Joe mentions dash cams so that there can be recordings on both ends, not just one end (the police’s evidence) Duncan had the thought that maybe once they realize that his vitamins were not MDMA, that they might try to switch out the vitamins with MDMA His attorney said they aren't that corrupt, or smart Links Website Podcast Check out our online course, "Introduction to Psychedelics" About Duncan Duncan Autrey has worked in facilitation and conflict resolution for over fifteen years in diverse contexts ranging from rural Paraguay and Colombia to cities of Seattle, Washington, DC, Cuenca and Buenos Aires. He approaches conflict from a belief that it arises from the diverse cultural experiences of common human needs. Every conflict or complicated situation, large or small, is an opportunity for deepening our relationships and improving the world we live in. Duncan currently runs a podcast called Fractal Friends covering topics on exploring our self-similarity across our diversity.

So what if you do all your self-examining and prep, you have the brave, private conversation, and your conflict is STILL not anywhere near resolved? It's time for the next best step---call in the support of a non-threatening someone else. Listen or watch this episode of Isogo TV to learn how and who to bring along!

So what if you do all your self-examining and prep, you have the brave, private conversation, and your conflict is STILL not anywhere near resolved? It's time for the next best step---call in the support of a non-threatening someone else. Listen or watch this episode of Isogo TV to learn how and who to bring along!

                     What happens when you take two “revolutionary” adult film directors and play pranks on them during the filming of “innovative” shoots? Conflict. Personal, devastating conflict.Cait & Murda spend another week as best friends sitting through a vintage porn. One by one they watch the AVN’s The 101 Greatest Adult Tapes Of All Time counting down to the best porn of them all.This week in the podcast the ladies watch #96, Conflict, an adult film that was meant to be the Citizen Kane of porns. There’s sex toys. There’s toe fucking. There’s disappearing belts. And it all ends in an elaborate caper. Follow us @twbpodcast on Instagram and TwitterAlso, follow our YouTube Channel and our Porn Hub Channel for animated shorts. Check out more at therewillbedrinkingpodcast.com and morebanana.comLinks There Will Be Drinking Podcast (the origin of the Murda and Cait dynamic) AVN’s The 101 Greatest Adult Tapes Of All TimeConflict AdultDVD Empire (Our total porn boo)Music Credit “There Will Be Porn Theme Song” Dejen Tesfagiorgis : bit.ly/funnyreel p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px; line-height: 1.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000; background-color: #ffffff} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px; line-height: 1.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; min-height: 14.0px} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} span.s2 {text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none}                        

Our emotions are the strongest driver in our decision making and ability to resolve conflict. When we understand, explore, and harness our emotional templates, we can walk the first step toward resolving our conflicts. 

Our emotions are the strongest driver in our decision making and ability to resolve conflict. When we understand, explore, and harness our emotional templates, we can walk the first step toward resolving our conflicts. 

Five points in Resolving Conflict

Five points in Resolving Conflict

Peacemaker: Practical Skills in Dealing with Conflict Conflict happens. It can ruin relationships within friendships, families, and churches. But it…

Peacemaker: Practical Skills in Dealing with Conflict Conflict happens. It can ruin relationships within friendships, families, and churches. But it…

    Total Duration 45:35 Download episode 150 Ask More, Talk Less In this episode, I welcome Michael Bungay Stanier, founder and Senior Partner of Box of Crayons. Michael is the author of a new book that details how project managers can be more effective coaches. In The Coaching Habit, Michael proposes that coaching is not a formal event, such as a one-on-one meeting. Rather, it's something we can do regularly, informally, in 10 minutes or less. Improve Your Ability to Deal with Conflict Conflict comes with the role of leading people and projects. Our e-learning program entitled Beyond the Rock and the Hard Place is designed to help you learn how to negotiate conflicts in more productive ways. Learn more at http://courses.i-leadonline.com/courses/beyond-the-rock-and-the-hard-place. Thank you for joining me for this episode of The People and Projects Podcast! Have a great week! {vimeo}270426392{/vimeo} QUESTIONS ANSWERED by Track Jackit is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. TELL ME WHAT'S ON YOUR MIND by Allah-Las is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License.

Beer With Bear (Or Any Other Beverage) Episode 11 - Conflict Hello once again to the show! This week we crash Conflict's soundcheck at Los Globos in Silverlake, CA to catch them off guard and talk about their personal lives; to then reveal we know nothing about politics. Tuesday, May 26, 2015. A tribute show to original drummer, Francisco "Paco" Carreno, benefiting the Alliance for Children's Rights. http://kids-alliance.org/ Episode Tracks: (05:45) Increase The Pressure - Conflict (09:19) Carlo Giuliani - Conflict (20:56) Conflict - Conflict (30:27) Fucked Up State - Icons Of Filth Thanks for listening and subscribe! https://www.facebook.com/beerwithbearpod https://instagram.com/beerwithbearpod/ https://soundcloud.com/beerwithbear http://beerwithbearpod.tumblr.com