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Sermons from the clergy of the Church of the Redeemer, and Episcopal Church in Hyde Park, Cincinnati, OH.
It is not the peace of silence and not the peace of compromise. Instead, it is a fiery peace, a peace that upends false order, a peace that demands you align your life fully with Jesus. And that will bring division. That will bring division because the world prefers its false peace to God's true one. It is here now that we must slow down and listen because this is where Jesus confronts us directly.
We love peace. We long for it. And there's nothing wrong with longing for peace so long as we are longing for the right kind of peace. And friends, there are two types of peace, and Jesus came to draw a line between them. There is false peace. The peace that Dr. King Dec condemned as negative. Peace, the absence of tension.
It is the peace demanded by oppressors who say, don't stir up trouble. It is the peace demanded by politicians who condemn protests, but not the death dealing and justices that provoke them. It is the peace that we sometimes practice when we say, let's just keep the peace, rather than face hard truths.
Sermons from the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer
Sermons from the clergy of the Church of the Redeemer, and Episcopal Church in Hyde Park, Cincinnati, OH.