During Lent at Eastbrook Church, we continue to explore the soul-deep hungers in our lives planted there by God in order to lead us to Himself. The series, "Hungry for God," parallels the season of Lent, and has a companion daily devotional that you can access here. This weekend I explored the hunger for peace. …
Hungry for Peace
No one wants to live feeling depleted and empty. We all want to live out of a place of abundance, satisfaction, and peace. We hunger to feel like our lives are on the right track and that everything is ‘right,’ in the best sense of the word. The biblical word for this is peace or, …
Andrew Brunson on the presence and absence of God in suffering
If you have not yet listened to this message from Andrew Brunson reflecting on the presence and absence of God, you should listen to it soon. Brunson talks about his experience of God's absence through a good deal of his imprisonment in Turkey, of how his reading of prison biographies did not prepare him for …
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A Prayer of Clement of Alexandria
O God, make us children of quietness, and heirs of peace. By St. Clement of Alexandria, early teacher and apologist for the faith.
The Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love, Where there is injury, pardon Where there is doubt, faith, Where there is despair, hope, Where there is darkness, light, Where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled …
Matthew Erickson 