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From devastating wars to destructive relationships, everyone knows that our world lacks the true and lasting peace we all long for. Yet God has promised us that peace is possible. Andy Farmer, a seasoned pastor and biblical counselor, explores what it means to find true peace—peace with God, peace with each other, and peace with the world. In examining common threats to peace such as stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and conflict, Farmer helps us turn to the God who offers peace to all who seek him. Designed to be accessible for both Christians and non-Christians, Real Peace emphasizes the gospel’s foundational role as the source of all true rest and reconciliation, calling readers to join God in the peacemaking project of the cross.
- Sales Rank: #419902 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-05-31
- Released on: 2013-05-15
- Format: Kindle eBook
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"Peace, if it comes at all, tends to come in little pieces—the job is stable for now, the kids are healthy today, friends still hang out with you—and sometimes I can settle for those scraps. Thanks, Andy, for showing me how I can honor God by aiming for peace that is much deeper. You let those words of Jesus linger in my soul, ‘Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you.’”
—Edward T. Welch, Counselor and Faculty Member, Christian Counseling & Education Foundation
“There are many books I can recommend on finding peace with God. There are far fewer I can recommend on experiencing the peace of God. Real Peace is a book I highly recommend for real people facing real trouble in a really messed up world. It paints gospel-centered portraits, explaining how to apply John 16:33 in the midst of our struggles with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and conflict. Reading Real Peace pointed me not to a system, but to a person—The Prince of Peace.”
—Bob Kellemen, Biblical Counseling Chair, Crossroads Bible College; author, God's Healing for Life's Losses: How to Find Hope When You're Hurting
“This is a book about being whole in a broken world, about finding rest amidst chaos within and without. I actually felt peace as I read it, making it a perfect book to read on vacation or on a coffee break in the middle of a stressful day. Filled with charm, personality, and wisdom, Real Peace offers solace to restless Christians and invites non-Christians to know the God of peace.”
—Mike Wilkerson, author, Redemption: Freed by Jesus from the Idols We Worship and the Wounds We Carry
“We all long for peace in our hostile, chaotic, and seemingly meaningless world. Why? Our souls were created for peace—not mere emotion or experience, but through an abiding relationship with the Prince of Peace. My friend Andy Farmer serves the church and the world well through his deeply thoughtful, winsome, and gospel-orienting work. Through its sociological and soul-revealing insights drawn from the wells of Scripture, Real Peace offers us hope that ‘draws the poison of self and despair’ out of our peace-robbing struggles. Such hope is found only through our Redeemer, Jesus Christ. Real Peace is a must read for everyone as we are called into the radical mission of the gospel.”
—Robert K. Cheong, Pastor of Care, Sojourn Community Church, Louisville, Kentucky; author, God Redeeming His Bride
About the Author
Andy Farmer (MABC, Westminster Theological Seminary) has been serving as a pastor at Covenant Fellowship Church in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania, for 20 years. He is also on the council board of the Biblical Counseling Coalition and assists Sovereign Grace Ministries in strategic planning and training for church planting and care. Farmer is the author of The Rich Single Life and Real Peace. He is never bored, endlessly distractable, and is always looking for new things to turn into hobbies. Farmer and his wife, Jill, have four children and a growing number of grandchildren.
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By Mathew Sims
I've done some minor study into the doctrine of peace in Scripture ("Surpassing Peace: Ours in Jesus Christ" and "Celebrating the Arrival: The Prince of Peace"). It's a topic fertile with gospel application and God-focused meditation. I hope Andy's Real Peace spurs more exploration on peace.
Andy approaches peace from an academic point of view, although you can tell he's done his work. He approaches primarily pastorally--with a heart full of empathy and love.
Andy says, "God's peace insurgency will not only survive, it will reign in the earth" (p. 41). For me this sentence is a wonderfully succinct way to describe God's peace. From the original announcement of peace by angel's in Luke 2 (pp. 42, 60) an insurgency of peace came on earth and with Christ's death, resurrection, ascension, and enthronement it reigns in the person of Jesus Christ. Peace in Scripture is explicitly Trinitarian: Sent by God the Father, accomplished by God the Son, and alive on earth through the Holy Spirit.
He also teases out a major implication for those of us who have peace. He provides many, but this I believe applies especially in my own life and in the life of those I've observed over the years. It's a bit of a lengthy paragraph, but well worth the read.
One of the most troubling experiences I have in pastoral ministry is encountering someone who is offended and is demanding justice. Sadly, what I have often found in folks is that they are not really looking for justice. They crave vindication. Let me illustrate. If I am in conflict with someone and believe they have done me wrong, then it is understandable that I would want them to own that wrong and do what is reasonable to make it right. That's justice. But suppose you and I are in conflict and we differ on what really happened. What if I'm not satisfied with your simply acknowledging where you see you're wrong? What if I also insist that you agree that I'm right? That is vindication. Seeking vindication of my perspective, my feelings, or my facts is an unachievable, and more importantly, unrighteous goal. Who, after all, is completely right? There are people, confessing Christians, who get stuck in this hopeless quest for vindication, and they are willing to live contentious, stress-filled, peaceless lives to fight for it. Biblical discernment values justice because it is important to God, not because it is necessary for personal peace. What gets us to peace is not justice, but mercy. Mercy among God's reconciled people always "triumphs over judgment" ( James 2:13). (p. 74)
Peaces frees the Christian from seeking vindication in the dirty here and now. Peace and justice go hand in hand, but that's worlds apart from personal vindication.
The bulk of the Real Peace applies the doctrine of peace as laid out in the first few chapters to real life in our fallen world. He talks about stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and conflict. As someone who struggle with depression, I found his application and insights drove my attention to God. For those who struggle in one of those areas, Real Peace will feel like balm to your soul. Even if you do not now, all of us will experience grief and loss at some point and only the heart prepared and rooted in God will respond well. Real Peace will prepare you for living in the shadow of the Almighty, while on this broken world.
Because we do live in a broken world, Real Peace is a book for every one. God's peace passes all understanding. It stands firm in the midst of all suffering. It's an anchor. It's a person--Jesus Christ. Strive after peace and you will find Christ. Andy Farmer will guide you on your journey.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Real Peace offers Real Comfort
By Lindsey Carlson
During a recent vacation, I picked up Andy Farmer's book Real Peace: What We Long For and Where to Find It, and was blessed when it knocked down many of the straw-men in my life that have been parading themselves as peace. Perhaps you could also stand to question the types of things which bring you fake-peace:
"We have those fleeting experiences when the circumstances around us and our inner state come into an almost mystical alignment and we experience that sense of `Ah, so this is what it's meant to be.' It could be fifteen minutes when the kids are actually playing nicely and we can sit and catch our breath because nothing needs to be done right now. Or maybe it's those glorious times at the end of school finals when the pressure is off and the next semester is still a week away. What brings peace to you? There are thousands of little moments in our lives where we taste peace. But they don't last, do they?"
Peace is hard to find and we seem to look for it in all the wrong places. Farmer, who has served in pastoral ministry for twenty years and serves on the board of the Biblical Counseling Coalition, wrote this book hoping readers will find the real source of peace and "learn to love peace like [he's] learning to love peace. Peace in all its dimensions."
Who's it Written For?
Anyone and everyone! The beautiful thing about this book is it isn't for one particular type of reader. It will reach and minister to seekers and young believers, all the way up to mature believers. This is genuinely a book that can be easily read, digested, and applied by readers in any stage of faith. As I read, I was constantly thinking of friends across the spectrum that I can't wait to pass this book along to!
What it Is / What it Isn't
This book isn't going to give you strategies and formulas. It isn't going to offer worldly wisdom or coping techniques.
"If real peace is possible, it can't be something we create. So who determines shalom? Simply put, God does. The idea of shalom is uniquely God-centered. In other words, shalom is not something that can exist on its own in this world. It is a gift from God into human experience." p. 33
This book will offer readers scripture's definition of peace; what God says about peace and how to find it. It is going to give you the gospel's explanation of where peace originated (in the garden) and where it disappeared (the fall) and take you to "God's Surprising Solution - the unfolding epic of God's mercy plan for the human race."
The next five chapters address some common ways peace applies to our daily lives: Peace and Stress, Peace and Anxiety, Peace and Grief, Peace and Depression, and Peace and Conflict.
Each of these chapters conversationally approaches its sensitive subject with grace and wisdom - offering scriptural perspective alongside gentle pastoral counsel. Farmer is conversationally disarming as he confronts sins like fear and doubt, allowing the Holy Spirit to do specific personal and effective convicting off the pages, in the heart of the reader. He is loving in the way he approaches the subject of depression, not shaming or scolding readers who may suffer.
The last two chapters of the book, "Peace and God's People" and "Peace and My World" take the reader outside of their bubble and ask them to apply the things they've learned about peace to the world around them: the church, their friends, family, neighbors, and those who are in need of Christ. The book ends beautifully, with a call to go and taste peace and display it:
"...it is my prayer that you will `labor and live' for the sake of shalom in a troubled world. But we who offer shalom need to taste it and live in the good of it as well. My desire for anyone finishing this book is that you will know the shalom of God in profound and life-shaping ways."
Does It Deliver?
In ten chapters (176 pages), Andy Farmer has effectively strengthened, informed, encouraged and challenged my faith with his reflections on scriptural peace. This is a book that not only delivers, but that sticks with you. It will most likely become a common go-to reminder book in my personal library.
As Farmer states at the beginning of his book after observing peace demonstrated: "I thought to myself, `That's peace. I need me some of that.'" Don't we all need some of that?
*This review originally appeared in a blog for Worship Rejoices @ [...]
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Real Peace for Real Life
By Taryn
Peace. Everyone wants it and most seem to think it is the answer to the world's problems. But what does it look like and how do we get it? In his book, Real Peace, Andy Farmer offers some answers to what peace is, how to find it and how to apply it to the struggles of life.
In chapter 1, Farmer defines peace as: harmony, order and fullness. With a full explanation of each, he shows how this fallen world fails to experience these three things. "If we can't have harmony, we'll settle for tolerance...But the best tolerance can do is keep tension at manageable levels. It will never deliver harmony."
In chapter 2 Farmer explains that "shalom peace" is the way things are meant to be and when sin entered the world, creation lost that perfect harmony and order. Humans are constantly in search of that "shalom peace" and chapter 3 gives us the answer to that search: the Prince of Peace. True peace in our human existence only happens when we are made right with God and this reconciliation comes from Christ's atoning death on the cross.
Chapters 4-8 describe how to have peace in the struggles of life - stress, anxiety, grief, depression and conflict. Each chapter takes a passage of Scripture and applies it to the particular struggle in a helpful, encouraging and practical way. For example, by evaluating Phil. 4:8-9 in detail and applying it to daily life, Farmer helps us see where stress can be eliminated/reduced by thinking on the right things.
The final two chapters help us choose to respond to others in ways that promote peace. Chapters 9 and 10 describe how to have peace with God's people and the world respectively.
I thought this was a wonderful book that dealt thoroughly with the issues related to the peace we long for by using Scripture to teach and encourage us. This book has helped me understand how to respond better to those dealing with grief, how to let go of stress and anxiety and to be more intentional with forgiveness.
*Special thanks to Crossway for providing this book for review through Netgalley.com
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