Peace (ft. Ken Shigematsu) | Advent E2
John Mark Comer Teachings
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 20 December 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Why are we so anxious? Ken Shigematsu invites us to reflect on what Advent teaches about peace of heart. Drawing on Scripture, personal stories, and research, he shows how recognizing and living into God's love can help us move beyond fear and into resilient peace amidst a chaotic world.
Key Scripture Passage: Luke 1v30-21, Luke 2v19
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the John Mark Coma teachings podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Strawn Coleman, your host and part of the teaching team here at Practicing the Way. |
| 0:12.0 | Each week on this podcast we share a teaching from John Mark or other trusted voices in the formation space. |
| 0:18.0 | And it's great to have you with us. Today in week two of our three-part Advent series, |
| 0:24.6 | Ken Shigamatsu helps us to see what peace |
| 0:27.6 | arriving to us through the presence and person of Christ |
| 0:31.6 | can do to our fears, anxieties, our nervous systems and relationships, offering a beautiful vision of peace by proximity. |
| 0:44.8 | As you listen you may like to ask, how do I tend to respond to moments of anxiety and fear? |
| 0:52.3 | Here's Ken. |
| 0:58.4 | What are you afraid of? |
| 1:04.2 | And should you be afraid of what you are afraid of? |
| 1:08.1 | When you get on a plane, do you feel nervous? |
| 1:15.9 | You have a one in 10 million chance of being killed in a plane crash. |
| 1:23.5 | Are you afraid of heights? A lot of people report on surveys that they're afraid of heights. |
| 1:32.2 | You have a one in 65,000 chance of being injured by falling from a high place, |
| 1:36.2 | jumping from a high place or being pushed off of a high place. |
| 1:41.3 | I think when our son Joey was seven or eight years old, |
| 1:45.7 | we had a birthday party for him at the Vancouver Aquarium. And the guide comes out and he's talking to Joey and his friends and he asked him the question, are you afraid of |
| 1:52.7 | sharks? And then the guide says, last year worldwide, only eight people were killed by sharks but 37 were killed taking a |
| 2:05.9 | selfie of themselves you're getting a little too close to the edge of the cliff and then ah |
| 2:10.2 | are you afraid of being the victim of a violent fatal crime or an act of terror? |
| 2:21.0 | According to the brilliant historian Yuval Noah Harari, you are twice as likely to be killed in a car accident than you are by a violent crime, an act of terror, or a war combined. Now, in this past year, |
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