This is the Salaback Church podcast.

Today is a really great day.

We are wrapping up a message series called The Promise of Peace.

And for the last four weeks, we've been talking about peace from the angle that there is a war on peace in our world right now.

And so many people, so many of us,

experience tremendous amounts of anxiety. Studies show us anxiety as an all-time high.

There's so much brokenness, war, challenges that we face. And we've been wrestling through,

how do we live with God's peace? How do we experience his peace deep within our souls?

So we've been looking at the things that wore at that piece. And today, what I want to do

as we wrap up our series, I want to focus on the subject of relationships in our lives

and how often the lack of peace in our lives comes from broken relationships.

The lack of peace that we experience is happening because our lives relationally are not the way that God intends for them to be.

And we see this globally.

We see this personally.

I was reading an article this week that a friend sent to me from Wall Street Journal.

And this article was interesting.

So the author or the writer of the

article was talking about how this year, 24, there's a group of college students that are graduating.

So he's looking at Ivy League schools. And these students who are graduating from college in

2024 were graduating from high school in 2020. And so if you go back four years,

you'll remember in May of 2020,

when all these students are supposed to walk across a stage and graduate,

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