There are three absolute truths in I P 2.11. Life… I am just passing through. Abstinence... 100%. It’s not what’s in style, but is what’s...

How ‘bout this, from 1 Peter 2.10: Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people. Once I was a nobody. Now, I am a WOWbody!

If we are a chosen people, according to 1 Peter 2.9 we are also chosen proclaimers: But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy...

We can see, in his first epistle, that Peter is a true disciple of John Calvin. In 1.1 he was writing to the ELECT. Peter, an apostle of...

Fifteen-year-old Taylor is one of the teens at our Giddyup Bible study, and he’s been just soaking it in. We host the Bible study in our...

Do forgive me if I bore you with writing styles. Who cares? I do, ever since Sr Mary Lou taught me 10th grade English, then promoted me...

Sin. We think of the loud thunderous glaring gongs of sin—“big things” like sex, drugs, abuse, perversion, murder. But Peter starts off...

I used to like grass. But I didn’t know that I was like grass. A short-lived greenery, destined to fade away into a Christless eternity....

Peter reminds us, in chapter one, that we have pure souls. Then he mentions pure hearts. I don’t know if a pure heart is part of a...

Previously Peter mentioned my old passions (how fun I thought they were!). Peter told me [1 Peter 1.14] that I was doing them in...

I am going to grab my King Jimmy for verse 14, he shoots really straight. As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to...

"…He who has called you is holy.” Yep, I have read in both Isaiah and Revelation that God is triple holy. Holy. holy, holy is the Lord....

Saturday night I walked amongst a crowd of praising teens, talking to Jesus in advance of being announced as the speaker at the...

Verse thirteen catches my attention in the ESV: “Therefore, preparing your minds for action…” Sounds like God is saying, “talk yourself...

The angels, also have been made aware that there are “subsequent glories” (that we saw in verse 11) on the horizon, and they are just...

And then there is verse 10 in chapter one Pete’s epistle. The prophets of old knew something was up, they just could not put their finger...

I wonder if Peter was having flashbacks to a conversation he overheard between Jesus and Thomas. It was a conversation about seeing and...

Yesterday was a great day! Rachel's adoption is final and complete in the USA. The adoption of both kids is finalized in Mexico, but we...

Faith is tested. It goes through trials. The trials feel grievous. But when, at the end of that testing, our faith is shown to be...

We are so excited about our salvation, that we rejoice. Even though, Peter 1.6 says, we battle with all kinds of trials. "In this you...