Hopefully you've never been in a bar room brawl. But chances are you've seen one on TV or in a movie, so you know how it goes. It starts with one person. Someone else does something that makes the first person mad, and the next thing you know chairs are flying, bottles are smashing, and bones are breaking. What started out as a small incident gets blown up into a full-scale war.

While you may never have been in a bar room brawl, you probably have experienced the situation where one person did or said something. As a result, another person got upset or angry. Then the conflict spread to others, and before you know it people were involved who had no idea what the original squabble was about. This is called conflict, and it happens to every one of us.

But conflict doesn't have to turn into a battle between two or more people. There are ways to work through it that can keep us from experiencing physical and emotional scars.

So how do we do this? How do we handle conflict in a constructive way?

Join us beginning Sunday, August 22 to find out, as we begin a new series titled Bar Room Brawl.