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Christmas is perhaps the only time people really focus on Jesus as the prince of peace. The coming of Christ is announced as a message of peace by the angels in Luke 2:14, and Isaiah prophesies Him as the Prince of Peace. Most people nowadays think of peace as being an absence of conflict.

However, our modern understanding of peace falls way short of what the Bible means when it describes Jesus as the Prince of Peace, and what Jesus means when he says he gives us His peace.

This morning in the first of our Advent series, Julian unpacks this concept of peace a little.

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Christmas is perhaps the only time people really focus on Jesus as the prince of peace. The coming of Christ is announced as a message of peace by the angels...

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Mark 1v29-34 (2023-10-08)

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