Pursuing Peace Series: How to Find Peace in All Areas of Your Life
We're living in a world riddled with conflict, danger, controversy, and distraction. However, God has called us to have peace with Him, with others, and within ourselves.
This series is an examination of how God helps us experience more peace while we wait for the ultimate peace that He alone will bring. In each article, our counselors will unpack how to find peace in different areas of your life.
All articles from the series:
Pursuing Peace in a World Gone Mad
For Those Seeking Hope, BCC Peace SeriesPeace doesn’t really seem to describe the experience of many in recent weeks, months, or years. In our pursuit of peace, we must realize that it is more than a feeling of calm or tranquility; peace is more than good luck or feeling...
Pursuing Peace in My Disciplines
For Those Seeking Hope, BCC Peace SeriesCultivating peace is not just a choice to “be still in the Lord,” hoping it will suddenly fall upon us. Experiencing peace is learned as Philippians 4:11 teaches us: “Not that I speak from want, for I have learned to be content in...
Pursuing Peace from My Shame
For Those Seeking Hope, BCC Peace SeriesWhat is shame, and why is it such a large part of the human experience? Shame is the emotion that accompanies guilt; it churns like a hurricane in the soul, causing anxiety, isolation, and despair. So how do we release that emotion...
Pursuing Peace in My Emotions
For Those Seeking Hope, BCC Peace SeriesOur emotions are a gift from God, to help us experience life more fully. Every emotion is good, and we are to experience them all, at the right time, in the right way. So how can we discover the peace of God and how the God of Peace...
Pursuing Peace from My Anxiety
For Those Seeking Hope, BCC Peace SeriesIs it possible to live anxiety-free and in peace? To be “anxious for nothing,” as the apostle Paul mandated us believers? Anxiety is a distracting care that diverts our attention from the eternal Lord to temporal, earthly concerns. It...
Pursuing Peace in My Family
For Those Seeking Hope, BCC Peace SeriesWritten by BCC Counselor, Mark Johnson. “Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.” Conflict in families is as old as families themselves. We don’t have to look very far in our own past to find...
Pursuing Peace from My Uncertainty
For Those Seeking Hope, BCC Peace SeriesWritten by BCC Counselor, Colleen Ryan. Everyone has received life-changing news at some point in their lives. Maybe it was news of a dreaded medical diagnosis, or an unexpected job loss, or the premature death of a loved...
