Devotion

Their works are works of iniquity,     and deeds of violence are in their hands. Their feet run to evil,     and they are swift to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;     desolation and destruction are in their highways.  The way of peace they do not know,     and there is no justice in their paths; they have made their roads crooked;     no one who treads on them knows peace. (Isaiah 59:6b - 8 ESV)     Turn from evil and do good, seek peace and pursue it.         (Psalm 34v14)     “And he will be called a Wonderful Counsellor, mighty God, everlasting father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there will be no end.”         (Isaiah 9:6-7) “They will beat their swords into plough shares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war any more.”   (Micah 4:3) “You shall not murder.”     (Exodus 10:13) “Do not take revenge on someone who wrongs you. If someone strikes you on

"If there is anyone who should be opposed to strife and bloodshed it is the man that names the name of Christ. Spurgeon considered the spirit of war to be absolutely foreign to the spirit of Christianity…. Modern conservative, fundamentalist, and evangelical Christians, all of whom might claim him as one of their own, have much to learn from Spurgeon, not only for his example of an uncompromising and successful Christian minister, but also for his consistent opposition to war and Christian war fever." - Laurence M. Vance  “We are up to the hilt advocates for peace, and we earnestly war against war. I wish that Christian men would insist more and more on the unrighteousness of war, believing that Christianity means no sword, no cannon, no bloodshed, and that, if a nation is driven to fight in its own defence, Christianity stands by to weep and to intervene as soon as possible, and not to join in the cruel shouts which celebrate an enemy’s slaughter. . . . Today, then, my bret