Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas Enjoy O Holy Night and O Come All Ye Faithful
Peace
Peace with God
Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Yeshua the Messiah; Romans 5:1 The Context of Romans 5:1 Romans 4:16-25 For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, not to that … [Read more…]
The Peace of God Surpasses all Understanding
And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Messiah Yeshua. Philippians 4:7 Rejoice 4 Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!” 5 Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand. 6 In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and … [Read more…]
May more and more grace and peace be granted to you
1 Simon Peter, a bondservant and Apostle of Jesus Christ: To those to whom there has been allotted the same precious faith as that which is ours through the righteousness of our God and of our Saviour Jesus Christ. 2 May more and more grace and peace be granted to you in a full knowledge … [Read more…]
SHALOM!
Shalom is the Hebrew word translated peace in English. Shalom is a word full of rich meaning that is lost in the New Testament translation of eirene. In the Old Testament KJV Hebrew, shalom is translated: peace (175x), well (14x), peaceably (9x), welfare (5x), salute (4x), prosperity (4x), did (3x), safe (3x), health (2x), peaceable (2x), miscellaneous (15x). In the New Testament KJV Greek, eirēnē … [Read more…]
The Kingdom as Shalom Howard Snyder
The kingdom of God is Shalom Excerpts from: Kingdom, Church, and World: Biblical Themes for Today The Bible is full of teaching on the kingdom of God, and the church has largely missed it. But in the providence of God we may now have reached a time when the good news of the kingdom can be heard … [Read more…]
The kingdom of God is peace
The kingdom of God is … peace in the Holy Spirit. Romans 14:17 In our gentile understanding, peace means: to join, one, set at one again. The Jews understood many more of the implications of peace than we do because they had a much richer word for peace—“shalom.” Shalom is the environment of God’s kingdom … [Read more…]