Run for peace?

The author of the book of Hebrews has an interesting choice of words in Hebrews 12:14, when he literally tells us to run after peace.​ Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord. The same word translated “strive for” in this setting is translated elsewhere as…

Hope for Peace

Hope for Peace

A very wise man posted a comment on my Facebook page recently. He said “Can you imagine life without hope?” I remembered reading this from Romans 5… Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have also obtained access into this…

14 Words From Jesus

I’m reading through this book by James Montgomery Boice and Philip Graham Ryken this Easter season. It’s a great reminder of why Jesus said and did the things He did. Here are just a few quotes from the book. The first group is from the traditional seven last words of Christ on the cross. What…

Peace

We’re working through the fruit of the Spirit in Sunday School. This week the study is on peace. What a great study. It would be a study in itself to look at the hymnology on the subject. One of the songs I found is relatively new, and is aimed at kids, but the teaching is…

I Am His and He Is Mine

We sang this hymn in church tonight.  What a wonderful affirmation of God’s love for us and our position with Him.  This is one of my all time favorite hymn texts, written by George Robinson, and the traditional music by James Mountain fits the text perfectly. Loved with everlasting love, Led by grace that love…

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