Sitting in the pew as what we then called a Junior High student, I was flipping through the back of the hymnal. The Baptism section had this line from St. Augustine as its opening sentence — “You have made us…

In John 14:27, our Lord makes us an offer unlike any other — “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled,…

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, in that go-to manual, THE COST OF DISCIPLESHIP — “The followers of Jesus have been called to peace. When he called them, they found their peace.”

Christ Jesus himself in John 14:27— “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.”

Wish I’d written this. Okay, wish I’d written pretty much anything he did — “God cannot give us happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.” — C.S. Lewis in MERE CHRISTIANITY.

“Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.” — Colossians 3:15 Hmmmm? Hmmmm.

From a friend in what some think of as A More Reformed Tradition — Try this experiment: Tomorrow morning, instead of reading your Bible, write it. Just one passage. Write every word. Notice how your brain engages differently. Try it…

Let’s pardon the dated language (or update it in our heads as we read), and let Henri J. Nouwen in his classic, THE WOUNDED HEALER, help you and me today — A man can keep his sanity and stay alive as…

Council of Bishops’ Advent message: Embrace, Live our Vision The Council of Bishops are calling on United Methodists to embrace the denomination’s new Vision during this Advent Season. Council of Bishops’ President, Bishop Tracy Smith Malone, writes: “Advent is a…

Show the same diligence so as to realize the full assurance of the hope to the very end, so that you may not become sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises. (Hebrews 6:11-12 NRSV)