Advent:: Peace

Peace is a tricky thing to come across in an increasingly hectic world. It seems that we are constantly inundated with noise in our homes, work, and most every public place we find ourselves. There's an almost constant buzz and hum that rolls through our world that make peace hard to find. 

 

But this is where it gets tricky for me. When opportunities for peace present themselves, I don't always know what to do with them. I usually fill those moments with music, my phone, emails or some other distraction. I've started wondering if peace is a gift from God that I'm really not all that interested in receiving. 

 

Now, I do desire peace in my relationships with others. I do desire peace to so fill our nation and world that wars and threats of wars exist only in our history books. Those kinds of peace I can get behind, but personal moments of peace are something different. 

 

This message looks at the relationship between personal peace and corporate peace. How can you receive God's gift of peace in ways that calm the raging waters of your mind and propel you into peaceful relationships with others? That's worth talking about!