Advent Stewardship: Peace

Speaker: Pastor Raleigh Sims


Scripture Focus: Luke 1:39–56


Service Summary: Our world is filled with
turmoil, strife, contention. Every time it seems that our nation
or even our own lives are at peace, again something disrupts it.
Peace is as elusive as a slippery eel. Today's readings will
point us to the truth that the peace we seek cannot come from the
powers of the world, nor can it come from anything in our own
hearts or our spiritual potential. Real peace comes from what
seems like the least promising place: a little town, through the
young Virgin. Peace comes from Bethlehem, from where God comes to
us. From God’s Word. From the Bread of Life in Holy Communion.
Real peace comes to us, often beyond our understanding, through
the babe of Bethlehem, Jesus Christ, through whom God made peace
with us by a cross.