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The Knowing Series, Volume 06

Knowing Peace

Peace Rules. Resting in the God Who Holds Us Together.

Knowing Peace book cover

Craig Marvin Johnson

Christ holds us together and teaches us to live under His gracious rule.

Discover peace as more than quiet circumstances: the reconciling rule of Christ within us, among us, and through us.

Peace is the gracious rule of Christ in a surrendered life.

Seven movements

The journey through Knowing Peace.

Each movement opens Scripture, names a place of formation, and invites a faithful response.

01

More Than Quiet

Biblical peace is God's restoring wholeness rather than mere quiet, avoidance, favorable circumstances, or the temporary absence of conflict.

02

Peace with God

Through Christ's finished work, sinners are justified, enemies are reconciled, strangers are brought near, and the deepest conflict is brought to an end.

03

Peace in the Storm

Jesus meets embodied people amid fear, anxiety, exhaustion, and trouble, offering His presence rather than promising a life without storms.

04

The Mind Stayed on You

Peace grows through daily practices of attention, prayer, gratitude, truthful thought, rest, remembrance, and a mind repeatedly returned to God.

05

Blessed Are the Peacemakers

Peacemaking pursues truthful reconciliation, justice, repentance, protection of the vulnerable, and restored relationships rather than merely suppressing conflict.

06

One New Humanity

Christ breaks down hostility and forms divided people into one church where truth, accountability, healing, and His peace can rule together.

07

The Prince of Peace

The risen Prince of Peace sends His people to embody His kingdom now while they await the world where evil, death, and brokenness are gone.

Use the volume

Read personally. Walk together. Practice faithfully.

01

Personal study

Read with an open Bible, prayer, and room to respond.

02

Small groups

Turn insight into conversation, encouragement, and action.

03

Leadership formation

Build shared language for a life shaped by Christ.

04

One-to-one discipleship

Walk through one movement at a time with another believer.

The complete formation path

This volume belongs to a seven-book journey.

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