Resolving Conflict: How to Make, Disturb, and Keep Peace

Lou Priolo is the director of biblical counseling at Valleydale Church in Birmingham, Alabama, and the founder and president of Competent to Counsel International. A full-time biblical counselor since 1985, Lou is a fellow of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors. He lives in Birmingham with his wife, Kim, and daughters, Sophia and Gabriella.

Conflicts are like forest fires. If you can put them out while they're still small, you can save an enormous amount of time and effort. That's why this book is so valuable: it provides simple, biblically sound, and incredibly effective insights for resolving conflict in its earliest stages, when it still involves only two people. If you learn and practice these principles, you spend more time enjoying the people around you—rather than fighting prolonged relational fires.
Everything Lou writes is helpful, practical and biblical because of his wisdom gained through years of counseling experience and His love for God’s Word. What makes this book unique among books dealing with conflict/peacemaking is how specifically he deals with the details of the heart issues which need to be addressed and the practical steps to be taken. There are numerous valuable diagnostic tools and questions which will be VERY useful for pastors and counselors. His self-deprecating/transparent personal examples are also helpful as Lou shows that he is also engaged in this struggle.