There's only one Person who can give us peace in all circumstances: the Christ of Christmas who is our Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6). This week we've watched him calm the stormy Sea of Galilee (Mark 4:35-41), and learned how he can do the same for our hearts and minds.

There's only one Person who can give us peace in a perilous world and time. He alone knows the future better than we know the present, and will always do what is best for us. This week, we're claiming Isaiah's promise that the Christ of Christmas would be our Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6).

There's only one Source of true peace in our world. This week we are watching Jesus prove that he is Isaiah's Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6), as he calms both the stormy Sea of Galilee and the fearful hearts of his followers (Mark 4:35-41). Yesterday we asked the question, Why did the disciples wait so long to call on his help? Why do we?

As we are embroiled in the global war on terror, it is good news that the Christmas Child would be our Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6). However, we left Jesus yesterday in anything but peaceful circumstances.

Of all Isaiah's promises about the baby in Bethlehem, perhaps the one most welcome to us today is that he will be the "Prince of Peace" (Isaiah 9:6). Literally, the "Prince who brings Peace" wherever he goes.

Spiritual growth is one of the ways God redeems our suffering for a greater good. So it was that Mary and Martha learned at their brother's grave that God weeps.

Suffering isolates us--we think no one else feels our pain or knows our grief. If someone would weep for you, they stand with you. And Jesus wept.

The pain and despair of many in our world seems beyond description or resolution.  The good news is that Isaiah promised a Christmas Christ who would be our "Everlasting Father," literally our "Father forever" (Isaiah 9:6). At the grave of his friend Lazarus, the Messiah proved himself to be that kind of compassionate Savior when "Jesus wept" (John 11:35).

Isaiah promised that the Christ of Christmas would be our "Everlasting Father," literally a "Father forever" (Isaiah 9:6). He is the Father to whom we can come with all our pain and problems. If that is true, why are our lives so often so hard? Why does it sometimes seem that our Father isn't listening to the prayers of his children?

Two shootings yesterday have stunned us again. Tragedies at a missionary training center near Denver, Colorado, and at a megachurch in Colorado Springs are making national headlines...How does a pastor help his people at a time like that?