Advent 2025 | Peace

14/12/2025 31 min

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Episode Synopsis

This Advent sermon explores the prophetic promise of Jesus as the Prince of Peace from Isaiah 9, contrasting God's true peace with the false peace of worldly powers like the Roman Empire. The message emphasizes that biblical peace (shalom) is not merely the absence of conflict but complete restoration, wholeness, and healing. Jesus came not with military might but with vulnerable presence, offering peace that transcends understanding. The sermon calls believers to receive God's peace by surrendering their "yokes of oppression"—loneliness, fear, addiction, unforgiveness, shame—and to become peacemakers who carry Christ's reconciling presence into a broken world. True peace begins with being reconciled to God through Christ, which then enables us to be ministers of reconciliation to others.