Advent: War and Peace - Philippians 4.4-9

Jobey McGinty

If you have been stressed, angry, frustrated, annoyed, fed up, irritated, anxious, or worried...if you’re tired of all of this and find your blood pressure rising or mood lowering, this sermon is for you. All of us, to some degree, deal with these things on a daily basis. Our minds and hearts are infiltrated with thoughts and feelings that overwhelm us. There is a war going on inside of us, and it's the battle between peace and anxiety.  But God's Word gives us a great hope, as well as practical advice, on how to combat this and find freedom from it. We can find and have peace even amidst the chaos and confusion and uncertainty of life. We find this when we learn how to "rejoice in the Lord."  We don't rejoice "in our circumstances," but we can rejoice THROUGH our cir ...