PEACE
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Daily Readings: Philippians 3-4 and Psalm 145 Our world is filled with reasons to be anxious. Violence, crime, corruption, conflict, broken marriages and families, poverty, sickness, economic gloom; the list goes on and on. The Philippians faced most of these issues, but they could add persecution and potential martyrdom to their list too. From his
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Daily Reading: Ephesians 2:1-22 “His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, 16 and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. 17 He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to
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Daily Reading: Luke 2:1-15 Peace is such a central outcome of Jesus’ ministry that it was at the heart of the birth-announcement made by the “great company of the heavenly host” to the shepherds on the night of His birth. First an angel appeared in terrifying glory to declare the birth of “the Saviour, the
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Daily Reading: Isaiah 32:14-20 Isaiah prophesied to God’s people with brutal honesty that they were about to be laid low by the Assyrian invasion. But at the same time he brought them God’s promise that being humbled so deeply would place them in the perfect position to repent of their sins and to receive an
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Daily Reading: Isaiah 9:1-7 When the Assyrian Empire invaded Israel and Judah seven hundred years before Christ, it was the northern region of Galilee (the ancestral home of the tribes of Zebulun and Naphtali) that took the brunt of their initial assault. They must have felt, as Isaiah 8:22 prophesied, that they had been thrust
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This week our Advent theme is Peace. We focus on peace in Advent because of the angels’ prophetic song of celebration at Jesus’ birth in Luke 2:14: ‘Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom His favour rests.’ Biblically, peace (shalom in Hebrew or eirene in Greek) is not
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