For September 26, 2026
The Way Of Peace by Greg Holmes, D.MIN – Director of Missions serving 17 churches
EVERY GENERATION HAS HAD ITS STRIFE, its cultural conflicts, its wars. And every generation has sought peace, only to find it difficult to establish, hard to maintain, and tenuous at best. Perhaps one or two here or there has fared far better than the norm, but the fate common to all has been one of unresolved tension. Cultural pressures on a large scale—such as war, famine, or plague—works its insidious way through every stratum of society and every person in that society, and brings pressure to bear on all. Mothers and fathers fear greatly for their children, and perhaps so much so that they enter into formal organized protests. Political parties fear for their nation, but also for their dearly held personal interests and party powers; oftentimes their rivals are not only the nation in opposition, but the party of their own nation in opposition to them. Students protest against the government, labor unions strike, and so it goes, on and on. And nowhere is peace to be found. The prophet observes, “The way of peace they do not know; there is no justice in their paths. They have turned them into crooked roads; no one who walks along them will know peace.” (Isa. 59:8)