Pursuing Peace

Pursuing Peace
Author: Robert D. Jones
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2012-07-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433530163

A Guide to Resolving Relational Conflict You have conflict in your life—we all do. You encounter it in your home, your workplace, your school, or even your church. All around us tensions exist and disputes persist. Offered here is a step-by-step process for pursuing peace in ALL your relationships and a tool you can use to help others. This guide is: BIBLICAL — relies on the absolute authority, sufficiency, and life-giving power of God's Spirit-breathed Word CHRIST-CENTERED — depends on the forgiving and empowering grace of Jesus PRACTICAL — provides concrete action steps, case examples, discussion questions, and suggested language to handle specific situations PROVEN — offers tried and true methods from a pastor, professor, counselor, and certified Christian conciliator who has led couples, churches, and Christian schools to make peace for nearly thirty years Packed with wisdom and practical techniques, here is a manageable book on reconciliation that will send you on your way to pursuing peace while helping others to do the same.

Pursuing Peace

Pursuing Peace
Author: J.E. Huckabee
Publisher: WestBow Press
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2013-02-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1449786138

J.E. Huckabee believes that inside every person is a desire to live life to the fullest. Life without peace is a miserable journey, writes Huckabee. Our lives should include living with purpose and calm contentment, regardless of what comes our way. Personal upbringing and life experiences mix with current behavior and set patterns in motion in the human mind and heart. These patterns determine how a person reacts to lifes situations. When people venture out to apply the principles of peace in their lives, they begin to transform these old patterns into new patterns, which bring about an instilled peace in place of stress and worry. Pursuing Peace, quenched in Gods Word and Jasons life experiences, is designed to correct the emulation of sorrow and misery with a fresh mindset of peace, one that radiates from the reader when applied to their life and to those around them.

He Gives You Peace

He Gives You Peace
Author: Doris Willis
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
Total Pages: 95
Release: 2023-12-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

Peace is a gift. One of the most sought-after states of being is peace of mind. People spend a tremendous amount of time and resources searching for the thing that will give them peace in culture and society, which increasingly thrives on disharmony, chaos, and what seems to be unending crisis. But the peace we seek is not found in other people, places, or possessions. The peace we seek is found in Jesus Christ. Our Savior came to bring peace by reconciling us to the Father. He left his peace in us through the presence of the Holy Spirit. He told us how to overcome the world--by seeking peace in him. He Gives You Peace is a devotional of biblical topics on how the peace of God impacts our lives and daily decisions. My prayer is that you will recognize and seek the peace of Jesus Christ as you engage with these devotional studies. Doris Willis A Measure of Grace

Peace with God

Peace with God
Author: Billy Graham
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2011-11-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1418569070

It May Not Be a Coincidence That This Book Has Crossed Your Path... In Peace with God Dr. Billy Graham asks God to help this book “find its way into the hands and hearts of a lost, confused, and searching world . . . men, women, and young people everywhere [who] thirst for peace with God.” In spite of a life drenched with responsibilities and rewards, are you thirsting? Searching for some nameless thing that is more important than anything in life? You are not alone. All mankind is seeking the answer to the confusion, the moral sickness, the spiritual emptiness that oppresses the world. All humanity is crying out for guidance, for comfort . . .for peace. Dr. Graham shares God’s gentle, reassuring promise of spiritual calm—of authentic personal peace—amidst a personal life wracked with too much stress, too many burdens, too great a heartache. “I know men who would write a check for a million dollars if they could find peace,” writes Dr. Graham. “Millions are searching for it. But we Christians have found it! It is ours now and forever. We have found the secret of life! . . .When your spouse dies or your children get sick or you lose your job, you can have a peace that you don’t understand. You may have tears at a graveside, but you can have an abiding peace, a quietness. “God’s peace can be in your heart—right now . . .Whatever the circumstances, whatever the call, whatever the duty, whatever the price, whatever the sacrifice—His strength will be your strength in your hour of need. “It’s all yours, and it’s free. You don’t have to work for it . . . . Do not put it off.”

Create in Me a Heart of Peace

Create in Me a Heart of Peace
Author: (in)courage
Publisher: Revell
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2022-08-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1493434306

Jesus said, "Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you." So why are we still wracked with stress and anxiety? Why do we look at our world, our own churches and neighborhoods and see anything but peace? What causes this disconnect between what we read in Scripture and what we often experience in our own lives? Create in Me a Heart of Peace is a six-week Bible study that will help you - experience an inner calm-meets-strength that doesn't rattle with volatile circumstances or disappear with busyness - learn to make peace a daily posture and practice that shapes the rhythm of your days and tethers you to Jesus - discover a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit in your life and pursue peace as your God-given purpose The peace of Jesus is more powerful, practical, and applicable to our lives than any counterfeit version this world could offer. Join (in)courage and let God created in you a heart of peace!

Centered in Christ

Centered in Christ
Author: Tuesday Payne
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2022-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781958117002

The theme for this devotional is" Pursuing peace," which is not allowing our hearts to be weary in every situation and circumstance that arises in our day. Peace is incredible, and we know when we have it. When we have it, we want more of it. The reality of life is that trouble will arise and come into our lives; yet when we have Christ in us. We can live securely in Him. Jesus says, "Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not be afraid" (John 14:27). Our ability to live in peace is possible in every aspect of our day. Wherever we are going, we can walk confidently and have peace. We must learn to turn every weight over to Jesus because He is strong where we are weak. We can trust that He is watching and will help us through. God's peace is available to all of us; we must humble ourselves allowing Him to lead us through the day.

The Peace God Promises

The Peace God Promises
Author: Ann Spangler
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2011-09-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310412161

If God has promised to give us the “peace that passes understanding,” why do we sometimes feel so anxious? What are we so afraid of? Are there ways of living that lead to peace? Conversely, are there ways of thinking and acting that lead to anxiety and a conflicted life? How does Jesus embody peace and where did his peace come from? The Peace God Promises sets our longings for peace beside God’s promise to provide it. In her desire to experience greater peace, bestselling author Ann Spangler probes these and other questions. Exploring the stories that shape us, the memories that define us, and the relationships that connect us, she looks for ways to help us become more peaceful. What can we learn from Scripture, from Jewish tradition, from the Amish and others about rest, simplicity, healing, and peace? The stories she shares and the answers she discovers may surprise you. If you put them into practice, they may even transform you, enabling you to experience the peace God wants you to have.

Seeking Peace & Justice

Seeking Peace & Justice
Author: William Bontrager J.D.
Publisher: WestBow Press
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2019-02-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 197365220X

“If inner peace and a sense of justice come only from God [Proverbs 29:26; Shadrach et al. vs. Nebuchadnezzar, Daniel 3] and we yearn for both when in conflict, why do we not appropriate them from God when in conflict? 1 John 4:18 suggests it is because we stand paralyzed in fear, for our love is not fully mature. But how can that be true for a forgiven believer—unless our image of God is not correct?” “The author argues that our fear flows from an image of God as an angry judge, judging us from his Torah, a penal code of crime and punishment. But why do we think that when Christ on the cross wipes our sins away and gives us a spirit of sonship? [Romans 8:15]. Do we think it because we think our thousand-year Western legal tradition is biblically based and we subconsciously read it into Torah? What if that premise is wrong? After all, Torah originally meant instructions or teachings, not law.” “Mr. Bontrager reexamines the nature of God and his Word in view of Torah as a gracious gift of instructions to people blinded by sin, living in a fallen world, offered to us by God to guide us in working through conflict according to his ways, thereby finding peace and justice [Psalm 119].”

Conscience

Conscience
Author: Andrew David Naselli
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2016-04-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433550776

There is an increasing number of divisive issues in our world today, all of which require great discernment. Thankfully, God has given each of us a conscience to align our wills with his and help us make wise decisions. Examining all thirty New Testament passages that touch on the conscience, Andrew Naselli and J. D. Crowley help readers get to know their consciences—a largely neglected topic—and engage with other Christians who hold different convictions. Offering guiding principles and answering critical questions about how the conscience works and how to care for it, this book shows how the conscience impacts our approach to church unity, ministry, and more.