I'm the first to admit that I'm a sucker for extreme object lessons. I'll put a ballon in a person’s mouth and shoot a dart at it. I'll...

Peter begins 1 P 2.13-17--his section on submission--similar to Paul in Ephesians 5 and 6. “Submission” is a term that tends to get our...

In my never-so-humble opinion, me thinks that we are ever-so-ready to draw lines in the sand between us, and those who do not follow...

More poignant poetry from the psalmist, this time it is David: Be not far from me, for trouble is near. And now, after Calvary, after...

Last week, after 55 years of Bible ready, I came across this verse “for the first time.” David poetically writes what is subtitled as, a...

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...