Seek Peace

 Turn aside from evil and do good,

Seek peace and pursue it.

Psalm 34:14

Peace, Love and Light!

Kevin (Cloud)

There Are No Just Wars!

 

I'm starting to hear preachers pushing the "Just War Theory", but I believe that there is no such a thing as a “Just War”. 

According to Civilian Deaths in Wartime by William Eckhardt (1989) throughout history civilians have made up 50% of all casualties during war. Others have estimated that the civilian death toll is somewhere between 80% and 90%.

When as many civilians die from war as armed combatants I say that all war should be considered unjustifiable under the “Just War Theory”.

Peace, Love and Light!

Kevin (Cloud)

Rock Mass 03-05-2022

Rock Mass on the first Sunday of the month.

Rock Mass for Sunday March 5, 2022

Blessed Are The Peacemakers Edition

"We will not build a peaceful world by following a negative path. It is not enough to say "We must not wage war." It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war, but on the positive affirmation of peace."

~Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - Nobel Peace Prize Lecture December 11, 1964


"The Church of Christ is continually represented under the figure of an army; yet its Captain is the Prince of Peace; its object is the establishment of peace, and its soldiers are men of a peaceful disposition. The spirit of war is at the extremely opposite point to the spirit of the gospel"

~Charles H. Spurgeon from "The Vanguard and Rereward of the Church" December 26, 1858


"We utterly deny all outward wars and strife and fightings with outward weapons, for any end, or under any pretence whatsoever; and this is our testimony to the whole world. The spirit of Christ, by which we are guided, is not changeable, so as once to command us from a thing as evil and again to move unto it; and we do certainly know, and so testify to the world, that the spirit of Christ, which leads us into all Truth, will never move us to fight and war against any man with outward weapons, neither for the kingdom of Christ, nor for the kingdoms of this world."

~The Quaker Peace Testimony, Declaration of Friends to King Charles II, 1660

"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God."
- Jesus (Matthew 5:9)

Peace, Love and Light!

Kevin (Cloud)

The inspiration for creating "Rock Mass" came from the Rock Mass at All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena California back in the early 1970’s. On the first Friday night of each month All Saints held a Rock Mass which was a mix of traditional Episcopalian Mass and rock concert. A live band would play popular rock music which couldn’t necessarily be called “Christian” but contained spiritual phrases and references to God or Jesus. During the 1960’s and early 1970’s there was an explosion of these songs coming out of the "secular" music industry way before there was “Contemporary Christian Music”, in a way, it could be called "The Gospel According To Billboard's Top 10".

(Stained glass guitar angel found at www.patheos.com/blogs/nadiabolzweber)

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