Scripture

the prophets were right to envisage peace not within historical time but at ‘the end of days’, and even more so to see this as the work of God, not humankind. The attempt to bring prophetic peace by human action creates not peace but war

First, God’s Great Cleanup establishes worldwide peace. Recall those famous lines found verbatim in two separate biblical books: “They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more; but they shall all sit under their own vines and un

If thine eye be single, Thy whole body will be full of light. —Matthew 6:22

“If you do away with the yoke of oppression, with the pointing finger and malicious talk, and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday.

While on earth, Christ declared that he was the light of the world (John 8:12). Now that he lives in his church, it is we who are called the light of the world (Matthew 5:14).