peace

Just Keep the Peace

Just Keep the Peace

Are you trusting, supportive, and accommodating? Are you the kind of person who is always seeking harmony in your relationships? Are you someone who can manage to be content in any situation? Is laziness your Achilles’ heel? If so, you just may be a peacemaker. Peacemakers ...
Where Does Fruit Come From? Part One

Where Does Fruit Come From? Part One

One sure way to decide whether Jesus Christ is Lord in a life is to examine the evidence of everyday character. We can ask ourselves: Am I peaceful? Am I patient? Am I loving? These and many more qualities describe attitudes that motivate our actions. We can wash dishes ...
Minding Your Thoughts

Minding Your Thoughts

Isaiah 26:3-4. You [Yahweh] keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. Trust in Yahweh forever, for Yahweh God is an everlasting rock. It is difficult to keep our peace when trials slam us from every side—like finances, viruses, family ...
Healing Is an Aspect of Salvation

Healing Is an Aspect of Salvation

Isaiah 53 is the great chapter in the OT that foretells God’s plan of salvation through Jesus Christ. Former prophecies of the Messiah and the message of salvation were presented in veiled form. But here, for the first time, it is set forth with magnificent clarity. The ...
Honesty

Honesty

2 Peter 1:2. Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. “Grace” and “peace” are part of the greetings in every church Epistle. Grace is God’s divine favor, His kindness, His blessings as a free gift; and peace is tranquility, ...