Waging Nonviolence

2025 has already started off with plenty of violence in our country and around the world. This is not Jesus’s vision for the world.

Grieving and praying are appropriate ways to start into this year, given all that we face.

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As a reminder of Jesus’s vision, spend some time with these words from the prophet he quoted the most. Seek God’s grace for this vision to become a reality.

Many peoples will come and say,

“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
    to the temple of the God of Jacob.
He will teach us his ways,
    so that we may walk in his paths.”
The law will go out from Zion,
    the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
He will judge between the nations
    and will settle disputes for many peoples.
They will beat their swords into plowshares
    and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will not take up sword against nation,
    nor will they train for war anymore.

Come, descendants of Jacob,
    let us walk in the light of the Lord. - Isaiah 2:3-5