'Peace' tagged posts

My Peace I Give to You

“Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful.” (John 14:27) All around us is turmoil. We see in the hoarding, the fighting, the anger and the desperation. Why? People are…

J. B. Lightfoot: Jesus’ Peace

Peace is not apathy, not stagnation. It is certainly not freedom from labor nor suspension of energy. The peace that Christ has left us is not only consistent with the manifold occupations, interests, cares of life, but through and in these we must seek it. Peace is not freedom from trial and suffering. In the same…