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Good morning, Gateway Chapel!
If we haven’t met before my name is Chris, I’m the pastor here at Gateway Chapel.
Thanks Thomas for leading us in song.
Thomas as he mentioned is a part of Gospel Life Church just down the road in Puyallup and we’re really thankful to have him step in this morning and lead us.
We’re here to worship Jesus because we want to be people who hear, love, and obey Jesus.
And Jesus is our Prince of Peace.
This morning we’re going to be talking about peace.
We’re going to sing about Jesus and his peace, we’re going to be people of peace as we have fellowship with each other.
And so would you join me in praying this blessing over our time this morning.
God we all long for peace.
We long for peace in our minds.
We are an anxious world.
Full of many troubles.
We long for peace in our relationships.
We are crushed with relational discord, division, divorce, hatred, suburban coldness.
Forgive us for the ways we contribute to the lack of peace in our lives today.
Help us trust that despite our many sins we have complete peace with you through your abundant love and grace.
Would you help us see that Jesus is our peace.
Holy Spirit, would you help us become people of peace.
Not just in word, but in deed.
Not just in our thoughts, but in our actions.
And not just us in this room, but all your people.
We pray that our brothers and sisters at Gospel Life including Thomas and his family would be people of peace.
Not so that our lives would be easier, but that more people would see how good you are.
All for your glory, and our joy, in Jesus’ name, Amen.
Regularly on Sunday mornings, we want to talk about the missionaries we support at Gateway Chapel both prayerfully and financially.
This morning we’re talking about Mike and Amber Paterson.
And they sent us a video Christmas card.
Christmas is much more popular than Easter, and it’s not particularly close.
Why is that?
Now, the obvious answer may be “Presents.”
We all love stuff.
Consumerism drives our culture.
That’s a different sermon.
But there’s more to it.
Why is Christmas so much more popular than Easter?
Two months before Easter, local radio stations don’t start playing Easter songs.
They don’t start playing, “My Redeemer Lives” on Warm 106.9.
No, but the minute Thanksgiving is over you better believe Nat King Cole is playing on half of the FM dials.
Easter has warmth, flowers, springtime, resurrection.
I love snow, but I don’t love flu season and being endlessly congested or it being dark by lunchtime.
Why is Christmas so much more popular than Easter?
Theologically, Easter seems to have the trump card.
Without the resurrection, we have nothing.
Yet, without Christmas, you can’t have Easter.
But, I don’t think that theological logic is the reason Warm 106.9 is playing “O Holy Night” in November.
I read an article in Christianity Today and the author, Fred Sanders, said -
“As a young convert to the Christian faith, I would often get grumpy (I felt it was righteous jealousy) about the way shallow, secular, seasonal merriment tended to bury the truth under tinsel and jingle bells.
But now I think I am beginning to get it.
Even beyond the circle of faith, Christmas spreads the rumor that God is not done with humanity.”
- Fred Sanders, Hail the Incarnate Deity, CT
There’s a rumor…have you heard it?
God isn’t done with us yet.
Themes of Christmas that pervade this season: Hope, Peace, Love, and Joy…who can’t get behind those?
The issue is, what is true hope, peace, love, and joy, and where do we find them?
This week we’re in week two of our sermon series: The 4 Gifts of Advent: Hope, Peace, Love, and Joy.
Advent means coming.
We celebrate that Jesus came and that he is coming again.
When Jesus comes, what does he bring?
Last week we talked about how he brings hope.
And Biblical Hope is bigger than optimism.
Biblical hope is bigger than someTHING but based in someONE.
Jesus himself.
And this week we’ll see how Jesus brings peace.
We all want peace!
What is peace?
Why do we need peace?
How does Jesus bring peace?
How do we receive peace?
Prayer
What is peace?
Peace is a very common word.
It’s not like you’re about to hear a sermon on transubstantiation or infralapsarianism (those are real things if some of you are wondering).
It’s not a Christianese word.
You were just as likely to hear about peace if you walked into a weed shop this morning then if you walked into church.
What comes mind when you think of peace?
Comes from the British campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in 1958
If I said, this week, you’re gonna have a ton of peace…what comes to mind?
People say I need to achieve inner peace
We talk a lot about peace treaties
Or how about this one…this is a prison in South Korea where you can pay $90 to be locked up in solitary confinement for 24 hours in order to escape your frantic life.
How many of you might sign up for that this week?
What ties these images together?
Something has been taken away.
Whether it’s nuclear weapons, or you’ve been taken away to a beach, or all thoughts have been taken away from your mind, or war has been taken away, or people have been removed from your life so you’re alone.
Peace = Something taken away
How does the Bible describe peace?
Thanks to the Bible project for the bones of this sermon and sermon series.
We find peace throughout the Bible, in the Old Testament and the New.
In the Old Testament we have the word “SHALOM.”
Shalom - you’ve heard this word before, right?
It is a MASSIVE word…It has a million connotations and beautiful images.
It is a dense word that means something is complete, safe, untouched, it means everything is well, everything is good, everything is whole.
In Job, we read...
Rather than absence, we have a sense of fullness, nothing is missing.
Ordered complexity.
Like a 5,000 piece puzzle piece put together to perfection.
Shalom.
One can have...
Personal Shalom
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