Welcome to Enjoying Every Day Life with New York Times Best Selling Author Joy Smire.

On today's program, Joyce will be teaching from her series,

recognizing and dealing with strife.

Everywhere we look, it seems there is something or someone we can choose to be upset with.

We can bicker about any topic on social media or criticize others for their opinions and beliefs.

Often we get that uneasy feeling that everything is just not okay.

There is good news.

With God's help, we can improve and even have unity in our relationships.

Be encouraged as Joyce shares how we can overcome strife and receive God's peace for our lives.

Now here's Joyce with today's teaching.

We're talking about the importance of peace and the danger of strife.

And strife, if you look up the definition, is bickering, arguing.

Heated disagreement and an angry undercurrent.

And that angry undercurrent is the dangerous part of strife.

That's like maybe say it church.

And I can remember doing this.

I can well remember going to church with my friends and on Sundays we would go out and eat breakfast after church.

And we would have the pastor for lunch.

And enjoyed it.

I didn't know any better than I was going to church but I wasn't living for God.

And I actually believed that I was born again.

I just didn't know anything.

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