08/23/2026
I am amazed by the way we can work today and by all the things we are now capable of doing.
We have tools that would have seemed miraculous to our ancestors. We can communicate instantly, access nearly unlimited knowledge, accomplish meaningful work from almost anywhere, and enjoy more leisure than generations before us could have imagined.
Yet, despite all this progress, we remain a destructive and violent people.
Our technological development has outpaced our moral development. We know how to create prosperity, but we have not learned how to extend opportunity and well-being to everyone without fear, greed, domination, and tribalism getting in the way.
We can connect nearly everyone on Earth, but connection does not automatically produce compassion. Technology simply amplifies what is already within us—our generosity and creativity, but also our resentment, deception, and capacity for violence.
Still, I do not believe the pursuit of peace is futile.
Perhaps peace and prosperity for all will never arrive as one final worldwide achievement. Maybe they are built locally and repeatedly—in our families, communities, institutions, businesses, ministries, and individual relationships.
Every fair transaction, every reconciled conflict, every person protected, every leader mentored, and every struggling person helped represents a small piece of that greater peace.
I may not be able to resolve all of humanity’s contradictions, but I can faithfully govern the portion of the world God has placed within my reach.
But I do know where peace begins.
Peace begins where the will of God is known through the Word of God—and where His Word is faithfully lived out.