Friday, February 02, 2007

Cravings Underline Conflicts

Having recently listened again to C.J. Mahaney's chapel address at Southern Seminary, entitled Cravings and Conflicts, I want to commend it to you.

Mahaney takes James 4:1-2 as his text: "What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel."

His main points are that (1) relational conflict is worse than you think, (2) relational conflict is simpler than you think, and (3) resolving relational conflict is easier than you think, through humbling yourself before God and others.

As Mahaney says, you have a relational conflict in your near future! So, again, I'd commend this message!