Isaiah 9:6

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

From Background Notes [BN] for December 22nd & 23rd written by Pastor Bob Brown:

For contemporary readers, the word “peace” evokes images of doves and olive branches, the kind of thing activists might put on t-shirts or placards.

I’m a child of the 60’s when the contradictions of the Vietnam war led to all sorts of protests and ultimately to a change in foreign policy. At the center of those discussions were the peace sign and the peace symbol. Ironically, we raised two fingers in a “V” (“victory?”) when we shouted “Peace!” But peace, as we eventually grew up to realize, meant more than: ending a war or making love or smoking pot or living in a commune or going to Woodstock or singing with John Lennon, “Give peace a chance.” Those were fleeting fancies of a naive generation who wanted things to be better but who substituted inadequate ways to have it so. [BN, 1]

Join us this week in Study, Worship, Praise and Celebration at Chicago First Church of the Nazarene:

* Saturday 6:00pm
* Sunday 8:30am & 11:00am