Speaking to the gray-haired shepherds, more specifically to the ones who were not in it for the power, the position, or the celebrity,...

September! A new school year! This month I step back into several regular teaching opportunities: Weekly Bible School Classes : I’m...

The second half of 1 Peter 5.3 has profound truth... but being examples to the flock. I know that in Veronica’s and my case, what we lived...

Can I shout out 1 Peter 5.3, the first half, to a lot of pastors I know and love here in Mexico? not domineering over those in your...

Can I shout out 1 Peter 5.3, to a bunch of pastors I know and love? ... not domineering over those in your charge  Am I a big man because...

1 Peter 5.2 (ESV), up to the comma: Shepherd the flock of God that is among you, Or as my MSV reads: It doesn’t matter, Marcos, that you...

Then the apostle reminds us that the best is yet to come: as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed: 1 Peter 5.1...

Truth is I have been avoiding the first sentence of 1 Peter 5. It overflows into three verses, and it has 10 commas, or similar...

Joseph of Arimathea went to Pilate to ask for the body of Jesus. Pilate remarked, "Joseph, you are a rich and prominent man. This is a...

As we read what Jesus is doing, teaching, and saying in the book of Matthew, everything changes after 16.18. I call this verse “the...

We are encouraged to be renewed in the spirit of our mind (Eph 4.23). Hmm, I did not even know my mind has a spirit.   And we are...

There is an odd connection, in 1 Pe 4.7, between self-control, sober-mindedness, my prayers. The end of all things is at hand; therefore...

Picture this... Ten travelers in a van, nine teens from our weekly youth Bible study, and one 69-years-young yours truly. Eight hours of...

1 Pe 4.6: For this is why the gospel was preached even to those who are dead, that though judged in the flesh the way people are, they...

but they will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.  1 Pe 4.5    And let us not forget, so will we.

They scratch their heads. They can’t figure us out. With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood...

The party’s over. For the time that is past suffices for doing what the gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness,...

When we arm ourselves with thinking that it’s acceptable to suffer in the flesh— like Jesus thinks, and when we do suffer in the flesh,...

We’ve been musing on 1 Peter 4.1: Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever...

We’ve been “thinking” on 1 P 4.1a, today we add part “b.”   Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same...