Zechariah 8:3-13 ; John 14:27 Today we lit a candle for peace, and it has me wondering, what’s happened to all the songs about peace? As a child of the 70’s I grew up in the echo of the Civil Rights movement, and I remember those anthems like Jim Croce’s Peace Train, the Byrd’s Turn, Turn, Turn, and John Lennon’s Imagine. I don’t think the present generation of artists has given up on anthems of peace, but I’m not sure it sells as well as it used to. It may be that I just don’t listen to enough new music, but it seems to me that I hear more songs about the lack of peace than the presence of it. Regardless of the awareness of my playlist of songs of peace, we do live in a world where conflict sells headlines and clickbait and any kind of ad space that can be sold, so it’s good that we have a different type of messaging coming to us from scripture today! As we approach that message, I want you to take a moment and imagine a city street. You can close your eyes if it helps, but I want yo...
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