Healing Contentious Relationships: Overcoming the Power of Pride and Strife
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
Have you noticed how easily strife causes your relationships to fall apart? Are you looking for a solution? In Healing Contentious Relationships, Thomas Parr exposes the way pride, covetousness, and unbelief cause us to mistreat others and how God grants grace in Christ to resolve such tension. Here is a book for war-weary souls in need of the Spirit of peace.
Table of Contents:
- The Cause and Pattern of Strife
- Confronted as Sinners
- God’s Grace—The Main Solution to Sin and Strife
- Coming to God in Humble Repentance
- Affliction and Humble Sorrow
- Another Expression of Pride—Subtly Judging God
- Another Expression of Pride—A Self-Sufficient Spirit
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- Acts as a manual for self-examination, moving beyond surface-level communication techniques.
- Argues that contention is rarely about the topic at hand and almost always about the protection of the self-image.
- Provides a biblical and psychological autopsy of why humans clash and how the Gospel offers the only lasting “medicine” for broken bonds.
- The Cause and Pattern of Strife
- Confronted as Sinners
- God’s Grace—The Main Solution to Sin and Strife
- Coming to God in Humble Repentance
- Affliction and Humble Sorrow
- Another Expression of Pride—Subtly Judging God
- Another Expression of Pride—A Self-Sufficient Spirit
“This hard-hitting book offers soul-searching insight from James 4, a crucial chapter of Scripture.
Author Thomas Parr sets James’s strong exhortations in the context of God’s great mercy in the gospel to sinners. Drawing from the wisdom of the past, it is grounded in solid Reformed theology.” —Jim Newheiser, director of the Christian counseling program and associate professor of Christian counseling and pastoral theology, Reformed Theological Seminary, Charlotte, North Carolina
“In this timely pastoral admonition, Tom Parr ministers faithful wounds and a robust gospel for those wounds. He shows that the message of James 4 is a needed tonic for a church rife with the sins of pride, covetousness, and unbelief. The book moves systematically through each verse of James 4, is enriched by synthetic Bible study and theological depth, and offers soul-searching questions with each chapter. This is a great resource for pastors and counselors to use with those looking for victory over the destructive sins of pride and strife.” — Robert Vincent, pastor of outreach and church education, Mount Calvary Baptist Church, Greenville, South Carolina