“Peace When it Seems to be Gone”
Sermon given by Pastor Robb on December 7, 2025.
Continues this year’s Advent sermon series, which also connects with classic Advent hymns and carols.
Covers selected verses from Daniel 2 and 2 Corinthians 4:7-18.
As Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s words in “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” honestly reflect, the world persistently works against peace and towards dominance and chaos. In the arrival of the Prince of Peace, we can still see how God’s peace perseveres and transforms unconquerably, though. While the privileged “peace through destruction and elimination” cycles between forces fighting to be at the top, those practicing care, solidarity and dignity for the downtrodden have never been defeated. And while empire always tries to take and accumulate more and more for its own comfort, it has never spread as far as the generosity and hope of those knowing another way of life is possible.
