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Women have a strong desire for relational connections. Relationships between women can be especially enriching, but when conflict arises, they also can be especially damaging. Too many women approach conflict as if they were unbelievers-with gossip, spiteful actions, bitterness, and even hatred. In Peacemaking Women, Tara Klena Barthel and Judy Dabler offer a meaningful, lasting message to lead women out of conflict to a state of peace where they can live as representatives of Christ to one another and well as unbelievers. With advice that is firmly rooted in Scripture, the authors bring sound, practical help for women who want to know what the Bible says about conflict resolution and how to achieve peace in their relationships with God, self, and others.

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Philosophie et théologie

Christianity

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Publié par	Baker Publishing Group
Date de parution	01 juillet 2005
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781441200327
Langue	English

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This book tells the truth. The authors know the struggles of women, and they offer hope rooted in God s Word to transform conflict into grace in lives, families, churches, and communities.
Charles Colson, founder, Prison Fellowship
The rifts in the Christian community are legion and legendary. The breakdown between two people or in our own walk with God saps more energy for the gospel than any one factor. Whatever the cause, the tragedy is most Christians don t have hope for repentance, reconciliation, and restoration. This bold and compelling book by two wise Christian mediators and peacemakers is a tour de force in offering a pathway for rebuilding broken relationships. Judy and Tara live and breathe what they write and know personally and professionally the glory of fighting for peace. Their labor of love will draw you back to the one who gave his life for our peace. Take it and read with hope and courage.
Dan B. Allender, president, Mars Hill Graduate School
Peacemaking Women is not just for women and is not just about peacemaking. This powerfully honest book is about the peace the gospel brings every heart that applies the truths of the gospel to past wounds and present brokenness. And this book is about how personally embracing this gospel of peace makes each of us a loving instrument of God s grace to others.
Bryan Chapell, president, Covenant Theological Seminary
If I could put one book in the hands of every Christian woman, in addition to the Bible, it would be this one. The book is marked by courage, vulnerability, integrity, respect, variety, and scholarship. It is a delight to read and a joy to ponder. Reading it has been beneficial to me as I am sure it will be to many.
Laura Mae Garner, former president, Wycliffe Bible Translators International
Peacemaking Women is worth a dozen counseling sessions. The chapter on romantic love is worth the price of the book.
Charles Mylander, coauthor of Blessed Are the Peacemakers
Judy Dabler and Tara Barthel weave into Peacemaking Women their wealth of wisdom and experience in counseling and conciliation. They show that conflict resolution demands more than communication techniques and negotiation strategies. Real peace (with God, others, ourselves) flourishes only when the deep drives of our hearts are captivated by the God of peace. In other words, the gospel of the crucified and risen Christ alone contains the life-changing mercy and power to heal our relationships with our Maker, each other, and our own conflicted hearts.
Real people populate these pages, not only the authors but also the women (and some men) whom they have helped find peace in the love of Jesus (and some whom they ve tried to help-their realism also admits that not everyone wants peace on God s terms). Their stories, told with refreshing humility and honesty, show how concretely practical the Bible s theology of peace is and speak hope that God s shalom can and does invade our broken lives and relationships in sovereign grace. I learned much about women, myself, and my God and his grace from Peacemaking Women . I highly recommend it.
Dennis E. Johnson, academic dean and professor of practical theology, Westminster Seminary California
Women know how conflict can threaten to tear apart relationships and homes. And worse yet, this conflict frequently begins within our own hearts, working its way out in demands and desires that can seem overwhelming. Peacemaking Women isn t just another book on communication or conflict resolution. It will open your eyes to the role our idolatrous hearts play in our conflicts and then point you back to the Peacemaker who took peacemaking so seriously he was willing to die for it. I strongly recommend it!
Elyse Fitzpatrick, author, Overcoming Fear, Worry, and Anxiety: Becoming A Woman of Faith and Confidence
Living in a world of conflict, we desperately need to discover the art of peacemaking. Tara Barthel and Judy Dabler use the wisdom of their own experience to apply God s truth to the deep wounds of our lives, showing the path to intimacy with God, reconciliation with others, and shalom in our hearts. This biblical, insightful, sensitive, and practical book will open the door of hope for many women.
Colin S. Smith, pastor, Arlington Heights Evangelical Free Church

2005 by Tara Klena Barthel and Judy Dabler
Published by Baker Books a division of Baker Publishing Group P.O. Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287 www.bakerbooks.com
Ebook edition created 2011
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ISBN 978-1-4412-0032-7
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture is taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version . NIV . Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com
Scripture marked NASB is taken from the New American Standard Bible , Copyright 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. www.lockman.org
Scripture marked NKJV is taken from the New King James Version. Copyright 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
The Slippery Slope illustration is used by permission of Peacemaker Ministries, Billings, MT.
The internet addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers in this book are accurate at the time of publication. They are provided as a resource. Baker Publishing Group does not endorse them or vouch for their content or permanence.
From Judy To the great love of my life, Jim To Ryan and Robyn. Thank you, God, for the sweet delight and great reward you have given me in my precious children. To my mother, my tutor in loyalty and faithfulness
From Tara For my darling husband, Frederick, who shows me God s grace and love every day And for my beloved daughter Sophia Grace- may you grow to be a peacemaking woman
CONTENTS
Foreword by Ken Sande
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: Conflicts with God
1. Thinking about God
2. Idolatry
3. Suffering
Part 2: Conflicts with Others
4. Biblical Peacemaking
5. Shalom -Filled Relationships
6. Romantic Love
7. Families
8. The Church
9. Female Leaders with Powerful Personalities
Part 3: Conflicts Within
10. Shame
11. Depression
12. Fear
Conclusion
Notes
FOREWORD
P eacemaking Women is a life-changing book. It contains a wealth of wisdom and encouragement for women who want to learn how to turn any conflict into an opportunity to build deeper and closer relationships.
My friends Tara and Judy write out of rich personal experience. God has refined them in the furnace of their own personal, family, and professional conflicts. As a result, they write with a winsome authenticity and vulnerability, and their teaching is laced with captivating personal examples to which every woman can relate.
Tara and Judy have been further refined by successfully guiding hundreds of other people through many kinds of conflict. Thus readers can readily apply Tara and Judy s insights and counsel to the conflicts of daily life, whether at home, in church, in the workplace, or at that dreaded family gathering.
The greatest strength of this book is that it is consistently Christ-centered. Instead of calling women to work harder in their own strength, the authors urge women to rest more fully and confidently in the redeeming work of Christ. The gospel-the good news that Jesus has saved us from all our sins-is woven into every aspect of this peacemaking model. The more that Christians embrace this model, the more we will understand what Jesus meant when he told us, My yoke is easy and my burden is light.
PeacemakingWomen is also utterly practical. The authors address a wide array of conflict scenarios that women face in today s com plex world and provide detailed and realistic steps for resolving all kinds of personal issues. Readers who recognize the depth and practicality of this book will return to it again and again to mine its pages more deeply and discover the many jewels of wisdom that God has planted here.
Prepare to be challenged and encouraged, convicted and inspired. You may find yourself torn between wanting to devour this book and needing to pause and let the truths soak in. When you have read to the end and have begun to practice what you ve learned, your life and your relationships will never again be the same.
Ken Sande, president Peacemaker Ministries
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I (Judy) would like to give my deepest thanks to the staff of the Center for Biblical Counseling Education. You received far too little help and attention from me last year as I worked on this manuscript. Your commitment, loyalty, patience, and prayers have shaped me in ways you may never know. In particular, Dave Holden s love and support and the sacrificial friendship of Joani Nester leave me humbled and in tears. I am truly grateful to the Session and pastoral staff of The Kirk of the Hills Presbyterian Church for their willingness to allow me to pursue this project.
While this book took me away from focusing on some important responsibilities, your unwavering belief in me leaves me fiercely determined to serve my Master well. Many thanks to my dear friends who encouraged me along the way. I could never have persevered without you. To my precious family, may the Lord bless you for your many sacrifices on my behalf. I love you so much.
I (Tara) would like to thank my husband, Fred, for his steadfast love for God and the church, and also for believing so strongly in women s ministries that he happily sacrifices his own comfort to enable me to write and travel