Experiencing Scripture
Today, want to focus on one short verse in a Psalm of David. I see myself in this one short verse, in which David has much to say with but […]
Experiencing Scripture Read Post »
Today, want to focus on one short verse in a Psalm of David. I see myself in this one short verse, in which David has much to say with but […]
Experiencing Scripture Read Post »
In my never-so-humble opinion, we are ever-so-ready to draw lines in the sand between us, and those who do not follow Jesus. Us and them. The good guys (obviously you
“Live as people who are free… but living as servants of God.” 1 Peter 2.16a and 16.c I am free. Trusting in Jesus Christ gives me freedom from sin. I
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Last week, after 55 years of Bible reading, I came across this verse “for the first time.” David writes so poetically in what is subtitled as a “Shiggaion of David, which
“Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.” 1 Peter 2:11 There are three absolute truths
If we are a chosen people, we are also chosen proclaimers: “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that
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“Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart.” 1 Peter 1:22
I Want to Love Like That Read Post »
“…He who has called you is holy.” Yes, I have read in both Isaiah and Revelation that God is triple holy. Holy. holy, holy is the Lord. Peter continues on
Confession: I used to like smoking grass. But I didn’t know that I was like grass. A short-lived greenery, only to fade away into a Christless eternity. But then something
Our friend Pete seems healthily hung up on this thing called grace. In the opening 13 verses of his first letter, we come across it three times. Yep, I can
Sin. We think of the loud thunderous glaring gongs of sin – “big things” like sex, drugs, abuse, perversion, murder. But Peter… He starts off chapter two with five subtly
I am going to grab my King Jimmy (a.k.a. Kings James Version) for verse 14, he shoots really straight. As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts