“Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.” Ephesians 1:2 Peace is freedom from war; mental calm and serenity with no anxiety; the absence of violence or other disturbances; freedom from conflict or disagreement among people or groups, a treaty agreeing to an end of hostilities between warring parties. Peace can sometimes seem to be an elusive, if not unattainable, pursuit. Because we live in a fallen world most of the things around us are positio

Our daily routines that are wrapped up in the cares of this world can often have a way of consuming not only our time, but our thoughts as well, and those prompt our actions. When our routines consume our time, we can find ourselves deprived of one of the most important provisions for peace and health that God has made available to us. That is, turning our minds from the cares of this world to consider Jesus. “For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against

“Then Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year a hundredfold; and the LORD blessed him. The man began to prosper, and continued prospering until he became very prosperous; for he had possessions of flocks and possessions of herds and a great number of servants. So the Philistines envied him. Now the Philistines had stopped up all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, and they had filled them with earth. And Abimelech sai