peacemakers

When God Wants to Sort Out the World

“When God wants to sort out the world, as the Beatitudes in the Sermon on the Mount make clear, he doesn’t send in the tanks. He sends in the meek, the broken, the justice hungry, the peacemakers, the pure-hearted and so on.”― N.T. Wright, The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was & Is

:) Blessed are the peacemakers

“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.” — Jesus, Matthew 5:9, NIV, accessed from BibleGateway.com It seems that many Christians have trouble with the idea of Jesus as a peacemaker and even more trouble with the idea of themselves as peacemakers. After all what can one person in this world doContinue reading “:) Blessed are the peacemakers”