A Recipe for Peace — Cookbook & Workbook (Dish Plating Edition)

Peace is not something you find. It is something you make — and the recipe was written by a man who kept his mind together in a prison cell. The Recipe for Peace Cookbook/Workbook is the working companion to A Recipe for Peace: Only Think on These Things — The Philippians 4 Method for a Mind That Won't Quit. Where the book teaches, this workbook hands you the pen. Thirteen dishes. One for every chapter. Every dish runs four pages, and two of those four pages are yours to fill. Each dish opens the same way. The ingredients, listed plain. The full verse in the King James Version. The same verse rendered in the Urban Vernacular Standard Bible — a clarity rendering that says exactly what the King James says, in language you would actually use. Then the words of Jesus on that same ingredient, so the recipe never floats away from the Person it points to. Then a four-step method you can do today, three questions with deep room to answer them, a full page of lines, and a declaration to copy in your own hand. You will not be buried in study notes. Each of the three movements opens with one word from the original Hebrew or Greek — shalom, prasso, phone. Three words for the entire book. You learn them by using them, not by memorizing them. Everything else on the page is work. The order matters more than anything else in this book. Movement One is peace in your skin — your own mind, your own body, your own two in the morning. Movement Two is peace in your space — your day, your decisions, your house. Movement Three is peace with people, and only now, because you cannot have peace with a friend until you have peace in your own skin. Get the order right and everything else follows. Get it backwards and you will spend your life exhausted, wondering why the peace never sticks. Along the way you will take an honest inventory of what has been living in your head rent free. You will learn to post a guard at the door of your mind, to pray a specific prayer instead of a foggy one, to bring the thanks before the answer, to walk through the valley instead of moving into it, and to guard the pot you worked so hard to fill. You will also find the Peace Inventory — a single page you can photocopy and run on any thought, any day, for the rest of your life. Eight tests. Yes or no. What fails inspection does not get to cook in you today. Then there is the six-week guide for small groups, classes, and ministry teams, mapped chapter by chapter and dish by dish, with an opening